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Artists will create spectacular works of art in the blink of an eye during the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center’s 33rd annual ArtBLINK Gala 2018 at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, in The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital.
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Patients with such mutations potentially need increased disease surveillance and show a high predisposition to develop malignancies.
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A new study published in JAMA Cardiology by UAB researchers shows that a key protein released from the heart is almost 35-percent lower in African-Americans than in Caucasians, and predicts the risk of death, particularly cardiovascular mortality similarly in both races.
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Akila Subramaniam, M.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Maternal and Fetal Medicine, was awarded a $75,000 grant from AMAG Pharmaceutical to begin research on a powerful predictor of spontaneous preterm birth.
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It is 18,000 pounds of green, rolling intensive care unit. The Critical Care Transport program at UAB welcomes its newest piece of lifesaving equipment, a Ford chassis/Taylormade body ground transport ambulance.
Of the 15 million people living with cancer in the United States in 2016, 62 percent were 65 years or older. A new study from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham sheds light on the factors that affect health-related quality of life in older adults with cancer.
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UAB and UAB Medicine have begun the enterprise implementation of OnCore, a management system for clinical trials and study-related information. The system is being expanded across the School of Medicine in three waves, with the first wave focused on the Department of Medicine.
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A new collaboration between the University of Alabama at Birmingham 1917 Clinic and Birmingham AIDS Outreach will expand the BAO nutrition services program to improve the health of patients living with HIV.
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Turning down the lights and reducing noise levels as part of a stimulation reduction initiative can decrease assaults and the amount of time patients must spend in restraint at psychiatric intensive care units, according to new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham and Proton International have secured funding for the UAB Proton Therapy Center. The facility will be the first proton therapy center in the state of Alabama. UAB and Proton International expect to break ground in January 2018 and open the facility in approximately two years.