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The UAB Advanced Limb Preservation Program represents a multidisciplinary collaboration involving numerous fields of study, including vascular surgery, podiatry and wound care. This team focuses on lower extremity limb preservation, diabetic foot care and complex wound management.
Thyroid nodules are not usually cancerous, but can cause pain and discomfort, as well as thyroid complications.

Kirklin received this award for his dedication to advancing the science and treatment of children through the journey of heart transplantation.

A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is devastating. But with the help of UAB, Steve Young is now cancer-free.
Jeffrey Kerby, M.D., Ph.D., was confirmed by the American College of Surgeons as the next chair of the ACS Committee on Trauma.
UAB is one of only six centers in the world with this technology, which enables 3D device visualization using light to guide navigation of wires and catheters through blood vessels.
Chen sets an example for his surgical mentees and invites them into the field of surgery through his publications and research.
The month long series of events is designed to give health care workers a chance for reflection as the pandemic approaches the two-year mark.

The device is a non-invasive scanner using near infrared light to assess brain injuries.

Record $95 million Heersink lead gift to advance strategic growth and biomedical innovation.
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After waiting more than two years, Colin Tucker received a new heart thanks to UAB’s new organ transplant program that uses hepatitis C-positive organs. 

In this arteriolar niche, breast cancer stem cells and arteriolar endothelial cells cross-talk using a well-known signaling pathway. Targeting this pathway may offer therapeutic potential.

Jorge de la Torre, M.D., professor and director of the UAB Division of Plastic Surgery, will serve a one-year term as president of the Southeastern Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
A year ago, Delrico Gibson could not use his hands. Now he can make art again and thanked the therapists who helped him recover with works of abstract symmetric string art made especially for them.
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