Health news from UAB

UAB hosts a major blood drive the week of Sept. 12-17, to boost blood supplies weakened by earthquakes, hurricanes and flooding.

UAB medical professionals who were in New York on 9-11 when the World Trade Center was attacked remember that day, and the lessons learned.

Aaron Davis, M.A., a psychology doctoral candidate, will have her work featured in Progress Notes.

A UAB researcher suspects room temperatures contribute to flawed results on weight-loss drugs tested in animals.

Chelsea Thrash walks back into class months after suffering a severe spinal injury with help from UAB neurosurgeons, trauma surgeons and rehab specialists.

UAB and its partners in the Resuscitation Consortium release findings on two studies of CPR techniques for first responders in cardiac arrest cases.

UAB Hospital’s NICU uses a new, non-invasive system that can identify preterm babies who are at-risk for deadly infection.
Effort and expense of implementing federally mandated measures to reduce surgical-site infections needs to be re-evaluated, study suggests.

An antibiotic can help reduce acute COPD attacks and improve quality of life, a new study shows.

More than three million teeth are knocked out in youth sports each year but some can be prevented or successfully treated.
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