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Patients with thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas and adrenal tumors will soon have a one-stop shop for endocrine neoplasia treatment.
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What connected two people before pales in comparison to what connects them now.
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The ERAS program is a patient-centered approach leading to better patient satisfaction and health outcomes.
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The biomarker can identify beta cell death in children and adults with recent-onset Type 1 diabetes and in antibody-positive at-risk subjects before disease onset.
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- comprehensive diabetes center
For many parents, talking about surgery can be tough. UAB doctors help share tips for having these conversations.
Lessons learned on the battlefield have brought about a change in blood usage at UAB.
The ATV hit a barbwire fence and virtually cut her head off. Her story of survival is amazing.
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Patients with low health literacy are at high risk of having poor health outcomes and experiences.
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This is a potential mechanistic underpinning — at least in a subset of patients — for the altered behaviors observed in autism.
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This executive order could mean positive change in Alabama, which has the third-highest death rate from kidney diseases in the nation.
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A new magnetic device eases symptoms of GERD
MEN2A is a rare, hereditary condition occurring in roughly one in 35,000 people in the United States.
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Vickers was motivated by his uncle, Leroy Vickers, to seek a career in medicine, where he has become a world-renowned surgeon, pancreatic cancer researcher and pioneer in health disparities research.
Every year, nearly 700,000 Americans have surgery for groin hernias.
UAB doctors will host a free communitywide education event to discuss treatment and diagnosis of hernias.
Maintaining emergency awareness and being prepared is a year-round activity.
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May is Stop the Bleed Month, and UAB ramps up these bleeding-control training classes.
Founded in 2017, the navigator program works with both recipients and donors to identify needs and guide each through the process to transplantation and post-transplant.
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Tissue-resident B cells likely have important differences that affect autoimmunity and transplant rejection.
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- division of clinical immunology and rheumatology
- comprehensive transplant institute
- division of infectious diseases
- division of transplantation
- comprehensive arthritis musculoskeletal and autoimmunity center
The city of Birmingham joins UAB and the state of Alabama by providing paid leave for living organ donors.
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