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The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed telehealth to the forefront, and UAB will use FCC funding to improve access to this essential health care service.
Delays in cancer screenings due to the coronavirus could lead to thousands of cancer deaths in the coming years. O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB is vigilant in its efforts to provide uninterrupted care to patients.
The group will provide input and guidance on how to allocate $300 million for costs related to improving technology and infrastructure in remote areas across the state.
The special unit for COVID-19-positive nursing home residents will help slow disease spread and provide care to this vulnerable population.
Girkin is the Eyesight Foundation of Alabama chair of the UAB Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.
UAB's Trauma Burn intensive care unit is honored for their use of therapy dogs.
Higher-volume feedings were determined to help postnatal growth in preterm infants.
In a study led by a UAB neonatologist, findings showed that racial and ethnic disparities in preterm infants decreased.   
Exercise is good for you, but how does affect the very building blocks of your body?  UAB is poised to find out.
Doctors at UAB are now able to safely transplant organs from hepatitis C-positive donors into uninfected recipients and then treat the patients with antiviral therapy.
Injections of two chemicals in a slow-release form significantly reduced the size of dead heart tissue and improved the function of the left ventricle.
In light of COVID-19, changes to protect patient and employee health have been made for UAB Medicine clinic and hospital visits.
This novel finding will enable experimental studies to determine whether and how these microbes play a role in triggering the disease.
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