Best Medicine Show set for Jan. 30
Written by Kendra Carter
The Best Medicine Show, hosted by the School of Medicine Student Senate, begins at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30 inside the Boutwell Auditorium.
UAB Medicine received a 2015 Women’s Choice Award and was named one of America’s Best Hospitals for Obstetrics.
UAB’s Ferniany assumes leadership position with board of AAMC.
UAB surgeon partners with principal to promote excellence at historic Alabama high school
Written by Tyler Greer
Robert Cerfolio, M.D., chief of Thoracic Surgery, launched a program at Sidney Lanier to introduce students to the broad field of medicine.
Pediatric glaucoma is a rare, but dangerous eye disease. Learn more about this potential blinding condition and how ophthalmologists at UAB’s Callahan Eye Hospital saved the vision of one young boy.
The 2015 UAB Annual Employee Chili Cook-off, benefiting the UAB Benevolent Fund, will be held Thursday, February 26, from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. in the UAB Hospital-Highlands Cafeteria and the UAB Hospital West Pavilion Atrium.
HPV testing alone is an effective alternative to current cervical cancer screening methods that use a Pap smear, or Pap smear-plus HPV test.
Comprehensive Cancer Center research seminar series highlights placebo effects in clinical care
Written by Beena Thannickal
Ted J. Kaptchuk, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard-wide Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will present “Placebo Effects: how is medicine more than drugs and surgery?” from noon – 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 13.
In TEDx talk, Thai encouraged turning assumptions about others into empathy
Written by UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
Second-year medical student Ynhi Thai spoke to assumptions made about uninsured and underserved individuals, and how those attitudes can keep society from moving forward at a TEDxBirmingham Salon event exploring new ideas about poverty in Birmingham on Dec. 8.
Associate Professor Stefan Kertesz, M.D., who directs a special primary care clinic for homeless veterans at the Birmingham VA Medical Center, spoke about ways ordinary people can make a difference in the world during a Dec. 8 TEDxBirmingham Salon exploring ideas about poverty in the community.