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Every school year brings dangerous trends — both new and reinvented — that you may be clueless about but that your middle schooler/high schooler is hearing about, considering or doing with classmates and friends. While not every teen’s brain struggles with impulsivity, many do, and even the most mature teenager is likely to take risks and be vulnerable to peer pressure.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will celebrate homecoming week Oct. 5-11. Godfrey, a nationally known actor and comedian, will do a free show at the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center on Tues., Oct. 7 as part of homecoming festivities.
David Pigott, a doctor at the University of Alabama-Birmingham department of emergency medicine and member of the American College of Emergency Physicians, believes that news of the epidemic's spread from Liberia and Sierra Leone to neighboring Guinea and Nigeria has put most, if not all, U.S. health workers on notice.
The announcement heralding the upcoming arrival of Smita Bhatia and Ravi Bhatia at the University of Alabama at Birmingham calls them a "powerhouse team" and, indeed, their credentials back that description up.
Faculty from The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Education and the state schools superintendent will be among 35 presenters at an upcoming autism conference designed for parents, educators and college students.
An Alabama doctors' group has come out swinging in a humorous campaign to thwart what it says is an oppressive and expensive new medical coding system.
“The sales tax advantage enjoyed by online retailers who do not collect or remit use taxes that are owed is bad enough. The Marketplace Fairness Act and a level playing field is about much more than just sales and use tax revenue losses. Alabama and other states are losing jobs, household income, and retail enterprises as B2C e-commerce continues to grow. Our retail enterprises are not just moving from downtown to our suburbs; they are moving out-of-state, and those businesses will not support our communities in many significant ways, if at all.”
Movi is a replacement of the old-fashioned wheelchair. It is designed for use in a hospital or skilled-nursing facility, or even in the home as a mobility aid. It stems from recognition by University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System CEO Will Ferniany that traditional chairs do not meet the needs of modern hospitals.
The idea behind these programs, called “CAPTCHA” — for Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart — is essentially to prevent robots from taking over the World Wide Web.
A grand opening was held at the new Student Health and Wellness Center at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB, Birmingham, Ala.). The 23,000-square-foot center is equipped with counseling space, exam rooms, laboratory spaces, an immunization area, X-ray room, waiting rooms, administrative areas and offices.
CVS has announced new clinical affiliations with University of Maryland Medical System, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System. Patients served at these academic medical centers will have access to services including clinical support, medication counseling and wellness programs at CVS' pharmacies and MinuteClinics in these areas.
Work can be a dangerous place. That point was made clear in Birmingham this past week with two fatal workplace shootings on Tuesday that left four dead and an explosion at a steel plant Sunday that killed two workers and critically injured another.
"What we have seen in the last 15-20 years is that the companies most susceptible to violence are the ones with the least security measures in place," explains Jack Howard, associate dean at UAB's Collatt School of Business.
Movi is a replacement of the old-fashioned wheelchair. It is designed for use in a hospital or skilled-nursing facility, or even in the home as a mobility aid. It stems from recognition by University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System CEO Will Ferniany that traditional chairs do not meet the needs of modern hospitals.
Two entities will receive grants through the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program, a CDC program that began in 1999. The Montgomery Area Community Wellness Coalition will receive $909,455; the University of Alabama at Birmingham will receive $943,212.
The Alabama Retail Association, along with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Collat School of Business, recognized 13 retail businesses in 48 Alabama cities and 12 other states as Retailers of the Year.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will play host on Thursday to a unique traveling exhibition designed to call attention to the problem of suicide among college students.
Anyone who wishes to pick up some tips regarding the preservation or restoration of old books and manuscripts should attend a lecture at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) on Thursday by Gabrielle Fox, a fine-binding expert and book conservationist from Cincinnati, Ohio.
All who attended the meeting agreed there is a problem: In some states, a patient who needs an organ transplant can move up the waiting list quickly.
In others where donor organs are much more scarce, patients can die waiting.
In others where donor organs are much more scarce, patients can die waiting.
From Dallas News
Older adults have the most experience handling money and hold the lion’s share of the nation’s household wealth. But they’re also subject to normal cognitive aging, which brings with it a decline in number skills, processing speed, flexible decision-making and short-term memory, said Daniel Marson, a professor of neurology and director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Older adults have the most experience handling money and hold the lion’s share of the nation’s household wealth. But they’re also subject to normal cognitive aging, which brings with it a decline in number skills, processing speed, flexible decision-making and short-term memory, said Daniel Marson, a professor of neurology and director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
"Today, the UAB School of Medicine and our physicians, scientists and patients call on Congress to finish the job and pass an NIH funding bill that restores the indiscriminate budget cuts enacted two years ago as part of sequestration," said Selwyn Vickers.