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.
Paradigm-changing clinical trial underway to better identify ureter during pelvic surgery
Written by Alicia Rohan
New dye could help better identify ureter, the passage between kidney and bladder, and prevent injury during minimally invasive pelvic surgery for women.
AHA awards UAB a $3.7 million grant to further generational obesity research
Written by Alicia Rohan
A multidisciplinary research team at UAB looks to address obesity as it is genetically passed from mother to child.
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.
As lung diseases worsen worldwide, UAB has launched a pre-doctoral training program in pulmonary research that will focus on lung diseases such as asthma, cancer, COPD, cystic fibrosis, pneumonia, lung injury and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Surgeons perform Alabama’s first transplant in which cadaver liver is “kept alive” outside body
Written by Tyler Greer
A new clinical trial seeks to determine whether a machine that pumps warm, oxygenated blood in cadaver kidneys can improve quality of the organ prior to transplant.
UAB cardiologists named as elite members of Cardiology Today’s Next Gen Innovators
Written by Adam Pope
These leaders represent the next generation of cardiologists who are working to educate their colleagues, conduct research on new and novel strategies to advance cardiovascular care, and innovate the unique aspects of the cardiology specialty.
Biomedical engineering students Jervaughn Hunter and Nikea McMullen are developing a contamination-free stethoscope cover to prevent a common source of infection.