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As a last-ditch effort, UAB doctors used a portable heart/lung bypass machine originally developed for heart surgery to save a young mother dying from carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Patient Care
Nearly 100 difficult-to-image proteins will soar into orbit on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and travel to the International Space Station. They are part of a study to demonstrate the effects of microgravity on protein crystals led by UAB's Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering. (UPDATE: Technical delays have pushed back the March 30 launch. Get the latest info on launch time here).
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Research & Scholarship
March 10, 2014
Fouad to lead new School of Medicine diversity efforts
Mona Fouad, M.D., director of the Division of Preventive Medicine and of the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center, has been appointed to a new position — senior associate dean for Diversity and Inclusion — in the UAB School of Medicine, effective April 1.
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Faculty Appointments
March 10, 2014
Find a UAB summer camp that's right for your child
Each year UAB departments, schools and organizations present fun, educational and convenient summer camps.
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Events
March 06, 2014
Quinlan wins Ireland Award for Scholarly Distinction
English Professor Kieran Quinlan, Ph.D., an acclaimed writer and scholar of 20th-century American and Irish literature, is the winner of the Ireland Prize for Scholarship awarded annually by the UAB College of Arts and Sciences.
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Awards & Honors
Gene V. Ball, M.D., Barri J. Fessler, M.D., and S. Louis Bridges Jr., M.D., Ph.D., edited the third edition of the definitive and most highly regarded textbook dealing with basic biological and clinical aspects of vasculitis. Ball and Bridges were co-editors of the previous two editions.
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Achievements
UAB researchers will work with community partners in Black Belt counties to reach diabetics in denial and use personal stories and coaching to demonstrate that their lives can be full if they take their medication as prescribed.
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Research & Scholarship
March 04, 2014
President's Diversity Awards presented
Undergraduate Ariel Smith, graduate student Chelsea Singleton and professional student Dwight Lewis Jr. are among the eight recognized for significant achievements to develop a more culturally diverse, competent and inclusive university community. Meet them online.
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Awards & Honors
