Approximately 14 million Americans have age-related macular degeneration, and a new study suggests it may be underdiagnosed in primary eye care settings.
The UAB Health Disparities Research Symposium highlights the health disparities work of undergraduate, graduate, faculty and community investigators in basic science, clinical research, behavioral and social science, and community-based research.
Surgeons utilizing more organs for transplant a year after AOC’s Donor Recovery Center opening
Written by Tyler Greer
A record year for deceased organ donors included more than doubling the number of lungs donated at UAB.
Selwyn M. Vickers, M.D., FACS, senior vice president for Medicine and dean of the UAB School of Medicine, has been named to the prestigious Association of American Physicians.
Paradigm-changing clinical trial underway to better identify ureter during pelvic surgery
Written by Alicia Rohan
New dye could help better identify ureter, the passage between kidney and bladder, and prevent injury during minimally invasive pelvic surgery for women.
AHA awards UAB a $3.7 million grant to further generational obesity research
Written by Alicia Rohan
A multidisciplinary research team at UAB looks to address obesity as it is genetically passed from mother to child.
UAB trauma surgeons support Stop the Bleed, a campaign to provide knowledge and equipment to the public in response to mass casualty events for use before EMS crews can arrive.
As lung diseases worsen worldwide, UAB has launched a pre-doctoral training program in pulmonary research that will focus on lung diseases such as asthma, cancer, COPD, cystic fibrosis, pneumonia, lung injury and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.