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UAB Physicians Agree With New Pap Test Guidelines Women do not need to skip their annual gynecologist visit, but most can skip part of that exam, an annual Pap test, says Todd Jenkins, M.D., director of the Division of Women’s Reproductive Healthcare. Women should now have their first cervical cancer screening at age 21 and be screened less frequently after that. Jenkins was on the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists committee that issued the new recommendations. UAB Cancer Center Affirms Cancer Society Position on Value of Mammography at 40 “Each woman needs to consider her individual benefits and risks and discuss them with her health care provider when it comes to decisions about breast cancer testing and screening,” says Edward Partridge, M.D., director of the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center. His comments came after the announcement of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force decision to push back its guidelines on initial mammograms to age 50 and conduct follow-ups every two years. HealthSouth Whistleblower Lectures UAB Students on Company Fraud "You learn a lot through the text books, but I think I can offer these students something that is very sincere and very real. Hopefully, it will touch them in a way that is more personal than what they can get out of a school book," said Weston Smith, a former HealthSouth chief financial officer who served more than a year in prison for his role in the company's $2.7 billion fraud. School of Nursing Piloting Program to Help Teens Take Over Management of Their Diabetes Researchers have received a grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research to pilot a newly developed intervention to help ease families through the transition from parents managing their teen’s health to teens taking responsibility for their diabetes.
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Researchers Discover Antibody Receptor Identity, Propose Renaming Immune-System Gene Previously, researchers who had identified this gene thought they were dealing with a molecule that regulated cell death and they named it “toso” – a reference to the Japanese medicinal sake often drunk on New Year’s Day to symbolize a long life. But the toso name is inaccurate, as were many of the earlier descriptions of this gene’s function, says Hiromi Kubagawa, M.D., a professor in the UAB Department of Pathology and the lead study author.
This discovery sheds new light on infection control and immune disorders and is such a crucial part of immunology that UAB researchers, in conjunction with Japanese researchers, are asking that the gene linked to this antibody receptor be renamed to better describe its role in early immune responses. The new findings are reported online in the Journal of Experimental Medicine and in the publication’s Nov. 23 print edition.
UAB Honors Student Wins Clinton Scholarship to Study in Middle East
University Honors student Grace Benton will spend spring 2010 studying at the American University in Dubai (AUD) in the United Arab Emirates as a William Jefferson Clinton Scholar. This is a significant step toward her goal of becoming a legal adviser or consultant for a negotiating team in the Middle East or a human-rights group.
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