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  • UAB physician performs Alabama’s first deceased donor bone marrow transplant
    The transplant offers a new treatment option for the more than 18,500 Americans yearly who are diagnosed with blood cancers and need a bone marrow transplant.
  • How a prenatal genetic test saved an Alabama mother and her baby
    Heidi Neas was diagnosed with cancer at 16 weeks pregnant, became cancer-free at 22 weeks and delivered a healthy baby boy.
  • Reinvigorating exhausted T cells in cancer and chronic viral infections
    Tumor therapy with immune checkpoint blockers may be improved by fine-tuning Gfi1 in CD8+ T cells.
  • Voucher awards will accelerate spatial biology research
    UAB’s new Lunaphore COMET multiplex immunofluorescent platform can hyperplex up to 40 antibodies on a single pathology tissue sample.
  • Love family pledges transformative $5 million gift to help improve care for patients with sickle cell disease, reduce disease-related complications
    This transformative gift from Ted W. Love, M.D., and Joyce Y. Love will improve patient care for those with sickle cell disease on a local and international level.
  • Breast cancer preventive measures for younger and older women
    One UAB expert says the roles of screenings, warning signs and a healthy lifestyle are all keys to cancer prevention.
  • UAB Arts in Medicine to host end-of-life care conversation with palliative care experts Sept. 12
    See the powerful documentary “The Last Ecstatic Days” at UAB's ALys Stephens Center and hear about the cultural and spiritual considerations of dying from UAB caregivers and Aditi Sethi, M.D., with The Center for Conscious Living & Dying, with guest artist Manjari Sharma.
  • New study shows association of historical housing discrimination and shortfalls in colon cancer treatment
    Mortgage lending discrimination in the 1930s is still geographically associated with inequities in colon cancer care today. Colon cancer often can be treated successfully if detected early.
  • Gene therapy: What to know about the new FDA-approved treatment for sickle cell disease
    Sickle cell disease is the most common and clinically significant inherited blood disorder across the nation, and now there is an FDA-approved gene therapy to help those living with SCD.
  • UAB launches WISDOM study and seeks participants in breast cancer screening study
    The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB is recruiting Alabama women who have never had breast cancer for the study, to test a personalized approach to breast cancer screening.