Displaying items by tag: department of neurosurgery
UAB surgeons removed a rare pituitary gland tumor from a Cullman woman that had defied diagnosis for years.
This new, non-invasive way to deliver radiation has helped one Alabama man complete optometry school and launch his new career.
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Deep brain stimulation has long been used to treat Parkinson’s disease, and was approved for use in epilepsy late in 2018.
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Ingram was sick and no one knew the cause, until the right doctors on the right night saved his life.
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A UAB surgeon has received the Congress of Neurological Surgeons’ most prestigious award.
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UAB investigators are on the track of new technologies to better guide brain tumor therapy decisions.
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UAB will fill a gap in the stroke belt as it joins StrokeNet, a national research consortium.
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The goal is an early warning system to block incipient seizures for patients where medications have failed.
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Early results for a UAB-developed viral immunotherapy to treat brain tumors in children demonstrate safety and tolerability in Phase I studies.
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The dying cells send signals to recipient tumor cells to increase aggressiveness, motility, and resistance to radiation or chemotherapy.
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Both dogs and people get brain tumors, and UAB researchers are studying a therapy developed for humans that might also work on dogs.
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A business officer in the UAB Dept. of Neurosurgery becomes a patient when co-workers diagnose a blood clot in his brain.
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This combination therapy, tested preclinically, could potentially improve patient outcomes.
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UAB and Children’s expand non-clinical patient navigation to children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.
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UAB is the first in the country to use novel HyperArc High-Definition Radiotherapy on brain cancer patients.
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Reintegration into school has been a noticeably neglected area of focus in concussion research, particularly in comparison to research on return-to-play. When and how a student should be fully integrated into the classroom are just two questions UAB and Children’s of Alabama researchers are looking to answer.
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The ProAssurance Endowed Chair for Physician Wellness at UAB will help address health issues unique to physicians as they deal with the stress and pressures associated with providing care in today’s evolving health care environment.
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Pediatric neurosurgeons, oncologists and molecular imaging physicians continue to work toward better diagnoses, treatments and cures for childhood cancer.
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This potential chemotherapeutic agent to treat glioblastoma — a primary brain tumor with dismal survival rates — is a novel small molecule inhibitor.
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There will be more than 33,000 brain tumors diagnosed in Americans this year, according to the National Cancer Institute; but a UAB neurosurgeon says advances in treatment paint a brighter outlook than in years past.
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