This year marks the 100th anniversary of the deadliest catastrophe of the 20th century – the 1918 influenza pandemic (also called the Spanish flu). World War I probably caused 40 million deaths, and World War II (which was the deadliest…
The Arizona Department of Health Services and the Poison and Drug Information Centers of Arizona teamed up earlier this year to offer the nation’s first 24/7 opioid helpline for health-care providers and Arizona residents. The Arizona Opioid Assistance and Referral (OAR)…
With most of 2018 behind us I’m taking time to reflect and share with you changes that have occurred at PCMS and proposed plans to improve your Society. After several years of trimming expenses, I am happy to report we…
On September 25, 2018 the Arizona Department of Health Services released a Health Alert Network Notification announcing that there is a statewide outbreak of syphilis in women and babies in Arizona. In response, the Pima County Health Department asks that…
Chad Whelan, MD, MHSA, has been named chief executive officer of Banner – University Medicine in Tucson, effective Sept. 26. Dr. Whelan will have oversight of Banner – University Medical Center Tucson, Banner – University Medical Center South, dozens of clinics,…
The critical state of the U.S. health-care system and the potential impact of the mid-term elections will be the topic of a lecture by University of Arizona health-care policy expert Daniel Derksen, MD, onWednesday, Oct. 3, from 6 to 7:15 p.m., at Banner – University of…
Clara Curiel, MD, Pima County Medical Society member, professor of medicine and vice chief of the Division of Dermatology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and director of the UA Cancer Center’s Cutaneous Oncology Program, has…
Robert J. Reilly MD, urologist and surgeon, passed away from bladder cancer in Tucson on August 14, 2018. He was 87. Reilly and partner Donald Gleason MD established Urological Associates of Southern Arizona. It continues to be one of the…
Psychiatrist Karl Gathof MD passed away in Green Valley on June 19, 2018. He was 73. Gathof was born July 27, 1945 in Kahl am Main, Germany. He began his medical career in Canada graduating from the University of Toronto…
Many states may reconsider laws restricting nurse practitioners’ ability to treat patients as the U.S. faces a growing shortage of primary care physicians. “If all States were to allow [nurse practitioners] to practice to the full extent of their graduate…