Displaying items by tag: school of medicine
UAB surgeons patched mitral and tricuspid valve leaks, which eliminated Terry Maddox’s fluid retention and got her congestive heart failure to drop from a Class 4 to Class 1.
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A diabetes drug combined with exercise may help older adults regrow muscle, and UAB’s Center for Exercise Medicine is investigating.
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UAB students selected for Marshall Scholarship and Rhodes Scholarship in back-to-back years.
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Donald Rabren came in to have open-heart surgery until a surgeon discovered great risk in continuing and elected to close him up and do a different procedure three days later.
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Marshall Scholarships chooses UAB finalists in back-to-back years.
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The Alabama Child Health Improvement Alliance has become the first organization in Alabama to offer performance improvement continuing medical education for exclusively practice-based physicians through its developmental screening project, Help Me Grow/Project LAUNCH.
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“A major issue facing biomedical research,” says Fran Lund, chair of UAB microbiology.
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UAB leads a team that crafts new American College of Rheumatology guidelines for 2015 on treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
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94-year-old Wade Gladden came to UAB with only 20 percent heart function, but physicians put a months long plan in place to restore function — and the Gadsden resident hit every mark along the way.
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The first large-scale trial of continuous chest compression following cardiac arrest shows little difference between the old and new methods of doing CPR.
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Treating patients 50 and older with high blood pressure to a systolic blood pressure of less than 120 mm Hg reduced rates of cardiovascular events, including heart attack, heart failure and stroke, by 25 percent.
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Physicians embarked on a rare operation in an effort to save the lives of one Georgian, one Alabamian.
Across campus, UAB students, faculty and staff are engaged in partnerships that are offering opportunity and healing for veterans, and helping to prepare and protect those who serve in harm’s way.
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When her dad was too sick to leave UAB Hospital, she brought her wedding to him with the help of the team providing his care.
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Validated biomarkers are crucial to developing effective treatments for this degenerative disease.
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Engineers, physicians, computer scientists and statisticians will collaborate to research and apply big data in the health care, industrial and smart cities fields.
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A special presentation of the popular play at Virginia Samford Theatre will benefit ovarian cancer research at UAB.
Valve-in-valve treatments are becoming more necessary as patients get older and outlive their original replacement heart valves.
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UAB’s School of Health Professions is hosting an open house for those interested in the Master of Science in biomedical and health sciences program Nov. 7.
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UAB researchers will enroll patients for prospective studies on pathogenesis of a potentially fatal blood clot disorder with a $2.5 million NIH grant.
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