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Sixteen UAB physicians and researchers were selected for awards during the Comprehensive Cancer Center’s annual Research Retreat.

Published in Awards & Honors

A team of eight — six with UAB ties — that spent a week in Lanzhou, China, teaching physical therapy techniques to health-care providers.

Published in Outreach
Civitan International Research Center still setting the bar in developmental cognitive disabilities research after 20 years.
Published in Research & Scholarship

The Comprehensive Diabetes Center is only a few years old says Anath Shalev, M.D., — the center's new director— so there is much work to do.

Published in Faculty Appointments

Cary Ramey's toe-thumb transplant gives his active lifestyle a boost.

Published in Patient Care
Jorge Alsip, M.D., has been appointed as UAB Health System’s first chief medical information officer (CMIO) effective Oct. 4.
Published in Staff Appointments

UAB medical professionals who were in New York on 9/11 when the World Trade Center was attacked remember that day and the lessons learned.

Published in Employee Safety

James Long, associate professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery, offers patients a non-surgical option to treat Dupuytreyn’s disease.

Published in Patient Care

UAB ED Charge Nurse Matt McLain is on track to complete his nurse practitioner degree in 2013, and he’s also July’s Employee of the Month.

Published in Awards & Honors

Triplets Jeanette, Lynette and Annette celebrated their 60th birthday with a visit to UAB and a tour of the new Women & Infants Center.

Published in UAB News

Installation of new electronic health record in UAB Hospital and its clinics means better, more efficient care for patients.

Published in Patient Care

Traveler's Health Clinic Director David Freedman says concerns the Germany strain of E. Coli will spread in America are minimal.

Published in Research & Scholarship
UAB Surgical Physician Assistant faculty and students volunteered to work worked in Cullman after the April 27 tornadoes.
Published in Outreach
Associate Professor Andra Frost has taken a small step that could lead to a giant leap — improving the outlook for many cancer patients.
Published in Get Involved
The UAB Human Resources Department has hired Lauren Whitt, Ph.D., to head the new UAB Employee Wellness program.
Published in Staff Appointments
Dori Pekmezi recently discovered the state’s first Turner’s syndrome support group and now is promoting an upcoming April meeting.
Published in Patient Care
The new UAB Community Counseling Clinic, an internship site in the School of Education, gives grad students hands-on training.
Published in Patient Care
UAB Hospital staff will leave Jan. 28 for a 10-day journey into a part of the world where medical care is a luxury.
Published in Outreach
Findings by Wally Carlo show an education-training program in basic neonatal care in developing countries can reduce neonatal mortality.
Published in Research & Scholarship
“Dancing with the Silver Stars” is a fundraising event to raise funds to help recruit and train geriatric care specialists.
Published in Get Involved
To create a better patient experience, pre-made and re-heated foods are out; freshly cooked order-when-ready meals are in at UAB Hospital.
Published in Patient Care
The new GWA Test Driver enables researchers to test-drive combinations of prospective designs and analyses and produce reports containing publication-quality plots and tables of power analyses and sample-size calculations ready to include in manuscripts and grant applications.
Published in Research & Scholarship
UAB faculty and staff have been training organizations and first responders — ranging from law enforcement officials to first receivers to veterinarians — for a decade through the Center for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP). The organization includes a partnership with Tulane University and the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Published in Extramural Awards
The UAB Pediatric/Adolescent Gynecologic Clinic within Children’s Hospital positions UAB and Children’s Hospital as leaders in diagnosis and treatment of pediatric and adolescent gynecologic disorders and is one of only two such dedicated children’s clinics in the Birmingham area.
Published in Patient Care
UAB Highlands’ governing authority has been dissolved and ownership has been transferred UAB Hospital
Published in Take Note
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    This week is all about progress: Opening of the new UAB Police headquarters, mixing personal medicine and politics and revealing the beauty of Collat's "Steps to Success." See it online. All in one video.

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  • UAB This Week: Aug. 3

    This week, UAB is on the move. Teens tackle dangerous driving habits in a simulator, a new Blazer-themed locomotive takes to the tracks and summer graduates prepare to launch Aug. 10-11. See it online. All in one video.

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  • UAB This Week; July 27

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  • UAB This Week: July 20

    This week, high school students learn how to be cyber detectives, WBRC FOX6 pays it forward to an artist-in-residence on campus and two online degrees earn honors. See it online. All in one video.

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  • UAB This Week: July 13

    This week, a common blood pressure drug is revealed to be an effective therapy for Type I diabetes, a team from NSF is helping faculty and staff better understand how to commercialize their technology and work on the new intramural fields is nearly complete. See it online. All in one video.

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  • UAB THIS WEEK: June 8

    This week is all about being being young and highly accomplished, working together to deliver on the promise of tomorrow and making fun and fitness attractive.

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  • UAB This Week: June 1

    This week, docs and vets team up to test therapies that could benefit mankind — and its best friends. The police chief tries his hand at demolition derby, and the city's food trucks are ready for their close-up on the Food Network. Learn more all in one video. Catch up in about a minute.

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  • UAB This Week: May 25
    UAB Medicine's robotic surgery program — a national leader — celebrates a milestone 10,000 procedures an UAB Hospital earns accolades for its commitment to providing an outstanding patient experience. Better still, a lung transplant gives a teen the chance to graduate high school and live a more normal life.
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  • UAB This Week: May 18

    This week is all about working together — to combat a physician shortage, accelerate medical breakthroughs and promote college readiness. Learn more all in one video. Catch up in about a minute.

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