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With her 2-year-old granddaughter’s life in peril, 62-year-old Carol Graydon came to UAB to be tested as a living kidney donor — and was a perfect match.
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UAB's Air Force Special Operations Surgical Team was honored following a recent overseas deployment when the team commander received a prestigious award.
A multidisciplinary team will provide patients with advanced technology to diagnose and manage facial nerve disorders.
The interdisciplinary approach aims to accelerate clinical innovation by training STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — students and clinicians to collaborate.
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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.
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.
Twelve School of Medicine faculty were recently honored as winners of the UAB Graduate Dean's Excellence in Mentorship Award.
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- department of pharmacology and toxicology
- department of medicine
- division of infectious diseases
- division of gerontology, geriatrics, and palliative care
- division of pulmonary, allergy and critical care medicine
- division of nephrology
- division of cardiovascular disease
- department of pediatrics
- division of pediatric infectious diseases
- department of surgery
- division of cardiothoracic surgery
- department of pathology
- department of neurobiology
- department of biomedical engineering
UAB has named James Davies, M.D., the director of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Failure of hormone deprivation therapy used to slow prostate cancer in patients leads to castration-resistant prostate cancer, a lethal form of advanced disease with limited treatment options. Endostatin, used in combination therapy, may help delay onset of castration-resistant disease.
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