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High fat/low fat? High carb/low carb? A UAB debate looks at overall health and cancer prevention.
C. Barrett Bowling, M.D., has received the Merck/American Geriatrics Society 2013 New Investigator Award
The UAB Continence Clinic celebrates 20 years as a leader in research, education and clinical care for incontinence.
The award recognizes outstanding achievement in clinical research addressing health-care problems of older adults.
The CrossRoads study is examining the effect of physical activity and diet on body composition in older adults.
The flu could be especially severe for the 39.6 million older adults in the United States.
The latest edition of Best Doctors in America ® recognizes 325 UAB physicians — voted by their peers as the best.
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The program works to reduce avoidable hospitalizations among nursing facility residents.
The University of Alabama Health Services Foundation General Endowment Fund awarded grants to aid research across UAB.
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The National Institutes of Health centers will close gaps in curricula so clinicians can make better and safer choices about pain treatment.
Rodney O. Tucker, M.D., will serve as the interim director of the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care.
Researchers were surprised that income, more than education, raised the risk of heart-failure risk.
Cynthia Brown, M.D., MSPH, will direct UAB's Geriatric Medicine Section.
UAB's Geriatric Scholars Program has graduated its first class of 18 scholars.
Newly named condition, “isolated diastolic hypotension,” can be difficult to treat while increasing risk of death.
Richard Allman, M.D., has been named the medical representative on the board of directors of the Alabama Department of Senior Services by Gov. Robert Bentley.
UAB geriatrician Andrew Duxbury has written a play for a senior adult theatre troupe with some important messages for older Americans.