UAB teams with AQAF to reduce hospitalizations in nursing home residents
The program works to reduce avoidable hospitalizations among nursing facility residents.
Health Services Foundation awards granted to UAB researchers
The University of Alabama Health Services Foundation General Endowment Fund awarded grants to aid research across UAB.
UAB named one of 11 National Centers of Excellence in Pain Education
The National Institutes of Health centers will close gaps in curricula so clinicians can make better and safer choices about pain treatment.
Use the holidays to gather your family’s health history
Holidays are a great time to get family health-history questions answered and begin building a database to share with your physician.
Tucker named interim director of UAB palliative care programs
Rodney O. Tucker, M.D., will serve as the interim director of the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care.
Low-income seniors more likely to develop heart failure
Researchers were surprised that income, more than education, raised the risk of heart-failure risk.
Brown to head geriatric medicine section
Cynthia Brown, M.D., MSPH, will direct UAB's Geriatric Medicine Section.
Use holiday gatherings to mine for family health history
Geriatric Scholar program graduates first class, enrolls another
UAB's Geriatric Scholars Program has graduated its first class of 18 scholars.
Low diastolic blood pressure linked to higher risk of heart failure
Newly named condition, “isolated diastolic hypotension,” can be difficult to treat while increasing risk of death.
