UAB HealthNews Headlines Archive-October 2006

Diets designed to lower blood pressure work - as long as the dieter sticks to the diet.

Some 18 percent of adults with no documented history of stroke report having had one or more stroke symptoms such as sudden numbness or weakness on one side of the body, according to a study by UAB researchers published in the Oct. 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is under-diagnosed in smokers and former smokers at risk for lung cancer, say researchers with the UAB Lung Health Center.

Researchers in the UAB Department of Ophthalmology are participating in a nationwide study to determine whether a modified combination of vitamins, minerals and fish oil can further slow the progression of vision loss from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of vision loss in the United States for people over age 60.

The UAB Center for AIDS Research has been granted a $2.45 million grant to build and manage an information-sharing network that will support outcomes research through the merger of electronic clinical data from seven centers for AIDS research across the country.

Halloween is a great time for the kids, but it can be a very tough time if you are trying to stick with a diet.

A group of medical, legal, economics and ethics specialists has entered the debate over the propriety of paying people to donate one of their kidneys for transplantation, as a solution to the national organ shortage. The current system of organ donation expressly forbids the offer of “valuable consideration” for a human organ.

The Kirklin Clinic^® at UAB opened a resource library on its second floor Wednesday, Nov. 1, where patients and visitors can learn about diseases and medical conditions in a consumer-friendly environment.