Displaying items by tag: Department of Medicine
It costs less to care for a geriatric patient hospitalized in a specialized Acute Care for Elders unit than it does for patients hospitalized in a more usual care setting.
Through an American Society of Nephrology grant, medical student Clark Powell will take a year away from studies to research a new acute kidney injury staging system developed at UAB.
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The annual award is the highest for research in the Department of Medicine.
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New study in European Heart Journal contradicts a recent study in the same publication, suggests evidence is lacking that digoxin increases mortality as atrial fibrillation treatment.
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In an engineering feat, the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center installs a cyclotron unique to academic medical settings.
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New marker predicts how resistant each patient’s brain cancer will be to chemotherapy.
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McDermott, executive administrator of the Department of Medicine, died suddenly Friday, March 29, 2013.
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The Supportive Care and Survivorship Clinical Program is competing in an online vote on that ends at 5 p.m. on March 28.
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A UAB study is the first suggest that any drug can dramatically reduce the risk of 30-day, all-cause hospital admission among older heart failure patients.
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Cynthia J. Brown, M.D., MSPH, studies what factors keep older hospital patients in bed.
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