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In honor of National Cancer Survivors Day, O’Neal Cancer Center patient Charlotte Patterson reflects on her own cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Symptoms of heart valve disease often go undetected or dismissed as a normal part of aging. Patient Karen Hay was unaware and says the procedure at UAB to repair the valve saved her life.
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. UAB physicians offer tips for how to maintain a healthy mind and body.
Patients of Cahaba Medical Care Federally Qualified Health Clinics, in the towns of Marion, Centreville and Maplesville, Alabama, can receive vision screening and testing for glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and other eye diseases.
Vaginal infections are extremely common in women. This new clinic will provide accurate screening and diagnosis of these infections and offer state-of-the-art diagnostic testing as well as treatments.
Clinical experience during COVID-19 showed that a combination of sports medicine and pediatric cardiology would be helpful for young athletes.
The nine sessions of the lunch-and-learn will cover a host of issues from loss of smell to brain fog.
The new gaming system uses commercially available technology which helps to reduce costs.
The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted delivery of key health services for children and adolescents, including HPV vaccination for cancer prevention.
UAB’s Comprehensive Addiction in Pregnancy Program is honored through the “Peony Project” exhibition displayed at Beverly McNeil Gallery.
Final results of the UAB-led national study on high blood pressure confirm a target goal of less than 120 mm Hg reduces adverse events.
The number of patients seen at the UAB trauma center continues to rise, requiring increased investment in people and resources to provide treatment.
The Journal of Pakistan Medical Association reported in 2016 that 69.6 percent of registered medical doctors were male.
UAB School of Public Health hosts Harvard expert for talk on new health care policy changes for geriatric patients.
UAB’s Sarah Nafziger, M.D., encourages those who have not received their COVID-19 vaccination to get it now before UAB’s sites close.
Mobile woman gives birth while battling COVID-19.
The Center of Excellence designation provides funding and linked research opportunities for the member clinics.
Blood shortages are common in the summer months, and COVID-19 has played havoc with usual donation patterns.
Physicians treating heart disease with anti-coagulants should factor the presence of kidney disease into their decisions on medications.
CABG is a commonly performed, lifesaving surgery for patients with heart attacks and severe disease of the heart’s blood vessels. Avoiding a surgery like CABG due to fears of COVID-19 has “drastic implications.”
UAB has removed all barriers for vaccine administration with no appointments needed at any of its four community vaccination sites.
The lab’s clinical expertise combined with the powerful diagnostic capability of its instruments will allow UAB to offer patients increasingly targeted, personalized treatment.
In October 2020, amid a global pandemic, the UAB Comprehensive Transplant Institute launched the Southeast’s first uterus transplant program — only the fourth of its kind in the United States.
Hassan’s new role will be to oversee the peer review of research studies submitted to the journal.
Alabamians can now schedule their date, time and location for their vaccinations through UAB at uabmedicinevaccine.org.
Patients of Cooper Green Mercy Health Services can now get COVID-19 vaccinations at Cooper Green.
UAB Arts in Medicine is creating the choir with support from the Women’s Breast Health Fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. Information sessions will be May 4, 5 and 8.
The Endospan TRIOMPHE study will enroll patients at up to 30 centers in the United States to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the NEXUS™ aortic arch stent graft system.
To date, 43 percent of vaccine doses administered by UAB have gone to underrepresented communities, with almost 30 percent to Black Alabamians.
Lack of infrastructure and medical facilities has slowed vaccination rates in some rural counties.