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Sensitive, specific assays are needed to ensure the safety of inter-species transplants for patients needing new organs like kidneys and hearts.
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High-tech medicine and human kindness combine in UAB’s ongoing kidney chain, a series of transplant surgeries that have given 101 people a new lease on life.
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When you struggle with weight issues, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by your weight loss options and dismayed by setbacks.
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Melanoma is highly capable of spreading and can be deadly rapidly if not treated.
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A 13-year-old girl gets to have a special training experience with UAB surgeons during robotics surgery celebration.
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Surgeons across UAB Medicine are working together to enhance robotic surgery, cementing UAB as a national leader in the field.
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The Association for Clinical and Translational Science awarded its Distinguished Investigator Award for Translation into Public Benefit and Policy to kidney transplant surgeon, researcher.
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After living with pulmonary fibrosis for 15 years, Quintarius Daniels received a life-changing lung transplant that has helped him live the life he has always wanted.
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UAB Orthopaedics’ new sports medicine clinic features five physicians specially trained in managing sports-related injuries.
Since 1968, UAB Medicine has performed more than 14,000 life-saving organ transplants.
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Kidney transplant recipients used to have to come to UAB for their post-transplant appointments. But thanks to telehealth, they no longer have to travel long distances to see their doctors.
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More than 30 percent of Alabamians are registered to be organ donors, but more are needed.
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Since 1968, UAB surgeons have performed more than 14,000 transplants.
A Dothan man is back on the hiking trail following a rare soft tissue tumor treated by UAB’s “Sarcoma King.”
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Research findings that suggest free heme leads to bacterial pneumonia may reveal new approaches to improve safety of stored red blood cell transfusions.
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UAB Medicine recently established a colorectal oncology clinic to provide a hassle-free experience for diagnosis and treatment.
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After providing UAB's School of Medicine with HIV-positive deceased donor transplant protocols, UAB aims to return the favor to Groote Schuur Hospital in South Africa by providing paired exchange transplant training
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UAB's Enhanced Recovery After Surgery pathway uses technology to improve patient recovery from major surgery.
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Watch a bleeding-control demonstration and join in with questions live as trauma surgeons show benefits of kits in public settings.
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As national deceased donor transplants top 10,000, UAB and AOC credit increase to "hero" donors and broader organ acceptance criteria.
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