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A UAB cardiac surgeon is using the revolutionary, robot-based da Vinci Surgical System to perform minimally invasive mitral valve repairs and replacements that enable patients to recover in days instead of weeks.
UAB is one of only five places in Alabama to provide LSVT speech therapy and is the only location with more than one therapist trained to administer the therapy.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says lung cancer is responsible for more deaths in the United States each year than breast, colon and prostate cancers combined.
The UAB Department of Ophthalmology, with the assistance of the Lions Club of Alabama and Lions Clubs International, recently purchased a laser with cutting-edge technology that can put a halt to progressive visual loss caused by PDR.
The Student Association for Graduate Education (SAGE) in Maternal and Child Health is encouraging local restaurants to ask their customers to donate $1 or more to raise money for the Tap Project, a UNICEF endeavor to improve water and sanitation projects around the world.
(From left to right) Ada Long, Lucy Tufts, Mike Sloane and Karmie Johnson helped celebrate the 25th anniversary of the UAB Honors Program Feb. 20-21 with a symposium in the Hulsey Recital Hall. Long, the founding director of the program, delivered one of the keynote addresses for the weekend. Sloane, the current director of the program, also addressed those attendance, as did Tufts and Johnson, who are Honors Program alumni.
A one-day snow event March 1 gave students Tracy Resler and Kaci Weaver the chance to build a traditional snowman, and the warming currents cleared it all up in time for classes Monday.
Team UAB will hold a bake sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, March 6 in the North Pavilion Atrium to raise funds for the Alabama Kidney Foundation and patients with kidney disease.
Facilities will open a UAB Recycling Center at 620 11th Street South on Monday, March 2.
Public radio station WBHM announces "One and Done" — a one-day fund drive on Thursday, April 2 with a goal to raise $150,000.
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