Displaying items by tag: women and infants services
Contrary to advertisements, bumper pads and stuffed animals are not part of a safe sleep environment for infants.
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UAB newborns are all on Santa’s nice list.
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The change of practice in C-section delivery improves the health of mom and baby.
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UAB continues to improve maternal and infant health as the only university to be a member of all three NIH perinatal networks.
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The NIH recently awarded UAB $11.5 million to support studies that will assess treatment of babies born with congenital cytomegalovirus but no symptoms, and frequency of neonatal herpes infections in the United States and Peru.
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A local health education nonprofit educates high school students on professional opportunities within rural health care.
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Two young Alabama women formed a bond over a rare germ cell cancer affecting only 1,000 women across the United States.
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UAB News introduced Baby JJ and the Burford family to the public in 2015. After two difficult surgeries in his first year of life, Jeremiah reaches a milestone in his road to recovery.
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UAB professor leads study in Brazil to help further understand the effects of Zika virus during pregnancy.
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Premature babies at UAB receive handmade quilts from Oxford, Alabama, Girl Scout troop.
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UAB is among the first in the United States to offer Pelvalon’s Eclipse System, a nonsurgical therapy for women who suffer from accidental bowel leakage.
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The quilts, made by more than 100 volunteers from scrubs worn by medical staff at the Women and Infants Center, were unveiled at a ceremony Dec. 17.
Baby Friendly USA has recognized UAB Hospital’s efforts to educate and support breastfeeding mothers.
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With a cancer treatment that could damage her reproductive system looming, Jessica Sparks decided to harvest and freeze her eggs to keep her dream of building a family alive.
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About half of American hospitals have some form of arts programming, usually art or music therapy. Now a growing number of medical centers — UAB Hospital is the first in Alabama — are implementing the more comprehensive AIM model.
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Between-hospital variations in active treatment explain much of the difference seen in infants born at 22 to 24 weeks of gestation.
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The Women and Infants Center and its physicians, nurses and staff have passed numerous milestones and garnered honors with patient care as the key focus.
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Women’s Choice Awards and Becker’s Hospital Review honor UAB women’s health programs as among the nation’s best.
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Research is inconclusive as to why SIDS occurs, but some articles have suggested there may be parental knowledge or compliance deficits.
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This public health initiative aims to ensure area babies have an opportunity to receive vital ‘first-food nutrients’ essential to early development.
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