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The Transverse Myelitis Clinic within UAB's Spain Rehabilitation Center came online with the help of Mike Jezdimir, a 65-year-old patient who has suffered from the disease since he was 17.
Patients with the Iforia ProMRI implantable cardiac device (ICD) system had no adverse outcomes related to the device and no significant changes to pacing or sensing parameters after undergoing a thoracic spine or cardiac MRI, according to a multicenter, nonrandomized trial.
A combination of drugs that target problems in the cells of patients with cystic fibrosis shows promise treating the most common form of the disease, according to two recent studies.
The combination of two drugs — an investigational drug used in conjunction with an already FDA-approved medication — improved lung function in patients with one form of cystic fibrosis, according to two new studies.
The CDC is encouraging people at risk to be tested and for health care providers to educate patients about chronic viral hepatitis and testing, since millions of Americans have chronic hepatitis and most are unaware.
Patients awaiting liver transplant who have primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) had higher wait-list mortality compared with other patients on the liver transplant list, said researchers.
The good news about fighting visceral fat is that it seems to be uniquely vulnerable to exercise. "Exercise disproportionately targets visceral fat," says Gary R. Hunter, a professor of human studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
“This opportunity will produce results that help patients weigh the value of health care options according to their personal circumstances, conditions and preferences.”
Focusing on rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis as well as numerous other musculoskeletal conditions, the goal of Arthritis Power is to securely collect health data from tens of thousands of arthritis patients to support future research.
he association now relies on a "framework," or algorithm, that clinicians can use to treat the disease, but it isn't evidence-based, said Timothy Garvey, MD, who is chair of the AACE Obesity Scientific Committee and a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) ranks No. 18 in the United States for its online learning programs, according to a new list, "The 50 Best Online Colleges for 2015–2016," released recently by thebestschools.org web site. No other Alabama colleges made the list.
The designation means that UAB Hospital is certified to treat complex strokes at any time of day due to staff, infrastructure, and equipment.
Muscle inflammation susceptibility status seems to be able to predict recovery after total hip arthroplasty, according to research published in the April 15 issue of the American Journal of Physiology, Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Salary disparities exist between male and female internal medicine residency program directors, according to a study published in the The American Journal of Medicine.
Building on data generated through the Family Blood Pressure Program (FBPP), a research team from the University of Alabama at Birmingham has kicked off a project that aims to identify rare variants associated with left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy, the thickening of the left ventricle that is closely associated with heart attack, stroke, and heart failure and is particularly prevalent among African Americans.
From The Washington Post
Here’s how public thinking on food gets shaped: Every year, researchers publish hundreds of academic studies about the health effects of various foods - chocolate, kale, red wine, anything. Those studies, in turn, become fodder for newspaper articles, books and blog posts.
Here’s how public thinking on food gets shaped: Every year, researchers publish hundreds of academic studies about the health effects of various foods - chocolate, kale, red wine, anything. Those studies, in turn, become fodder for newspaper articles, books and blog posts.
From Indiatimes.com
If you think gender disparity exists only at the low-level income group, think twice. Women who serve as directors of internal medicine residency programmes are paid less than their male counterparts, says a new study.
If you think gender disparity exists only at the low-level income group, think twice. Women who serve as directors of internal medicine residency programmes are paid less than their male counterparts, says a new study.
There is a survival advantage for diabetes patients that comes with a little extra weight. But diabetes and diet experts warn that it's not quite time to reach for that extra doughnut — it's an incomplete picture of diabetes, they contend, and, in fact, there's no paradox at all.
Stress and anxiety don't have to just come from obvious or even negative sources.
Would you pay $44 to save someone's life? That's the cost of one naloxone hydrochloride kit that can be used to reverse the effects of a potentially fatal heroin or opioid overdose.
The school's decision to disband the program last December -- along with bowling and rifle -- continues to define UAB nationwide, and will be the single biggest issue Ingram will tackle in the coming weeks.