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.
Engage to inspire
Written by Anupam Agarwal, M.D.
I cannot imagine a more rewarding career than academic medicine. For me, the rewards start by engaging the groups we serve, which are many. As educators we engage medical and post-graduate students....
Proceeds from the Fiesta Ball are used to fund a competitive grant award for a young cancer researcher at UAB to jumpstart his or her research.
Deal, a former senior vice president of Medicine and dean of the School of Medicine, passed away suddenly March 15, 2013 at age 76.
Baggott has more than 25 years of experience in campus wellness, and most recently served as chief of staff to the chancellor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
The ultimate goal of BIO is to see more inventions save and improve lives while serving as a basis of new companies that spread prosperity.
Clark Powell
Written by Kendra Carter
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.
Of the 27 antiretroviral drugs now approved for AIDS, seven were tested first in patients at the 1917 Clinic in Phase 1 clinical trials.
CI Therapy produces increase in grey matter in brains of children with cerebral palsy
Written by Bob Shepard
The findings are the first to show that structural remodeling of the brain occurs during rehabilitation in a pediatric population.
The annual award is the highest for research in the Department of Medicine.