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  • UAB’s Joseph Bloomer Given AASLD 2009 Distinguished Service AwardJoseph Bloomer, M.D., professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and director of the Liver Center at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), has received the 2009 Distinguished Service Award from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). Posted by Katey Watkins on 11/5/2009 10:50:00 AM
  • UAB Robotics Procedure Live on Twitter Friday; Medical Students, Others to FollowThe chief of surgical oncology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will remove a patient’s adrenal gland Friday, Oct. 23 in a safe and commonly performed operation. But frequent live Twitter updates posted by medical coordinators during the operation will make this procedure unique. Posted by Katy Harper on 10/22/2009 4:50:00 PM
  • UAB Robotics Procedure Live on Twitter Friday, Oct. 23The chief of surgical oncology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will remove a patient’s adrenal gland Friday, Oct. 23 in a safe and commonly performed operation. But frequent live Twitter updates posted by medical coordinators during the operation will make this procedure unique. Posted by Katey Watkins on 10/22/2009 4:40:00 PM
  • At UAB, Fertility Hopes Don't have to End for Cancer PatientsFertility isn’t always immediately on someone’s mind when they are first diagnosed with cancer. But for some, problems with fertility — in time — can become more of an issue. Posted by Katy Harper on 10/20/2009 9:10:00 AM
  • UAB Research Finds Childbearing Increases Chance of Developing the Metabolic SyndromeChildbearing is associated directly with future development of the metabolic syndrome — abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, insulin resistance and other cardiovascular disease risk factors — and for women who have had gestational diabetes, the risk is more than twice greater, according to a study co-authored by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Posted by Katey Watkins on 9/24/2009 1:50:00 PM
  • Even More of the Best Doctors in Alabama Call UAB Home More than two-thirds of the best doctors in Alabama practice at UAB, according to the 2009-10 edition of The Best Doctors in America. The new edition recognizes 297 UAB physicians among the nation’s best doctors, a total of 67 percent of the 446 physicians selected from the state of Alabama. Posted by Katy Harper on 8/27/2009 11:35:00 AM
  • UAB Using Hypothermia to Prevent Brain Damage Following Cardiac ArrestUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) emergency medicine physicians are now inducing hypothermia in patients with cardiac arrest in an effort to prevent brain damage caused by loss of oxygen. Cardiac arrest patients whose hearts stop and then are restarted following CPR or defibrillation are candidates for the hypothermia therapy, which cools the patient to 32 degrees Centigrade (89.6 Fahrenheit). Posted by Katy Harper on 8/19/2009 9:10:00 AM
  • UAB Hospital Among "America's Best" in Latest U.S. News & World Report RankingsEight UAB Hospital specialty programs are among the nation's top 50 - and six are in the top 25 - of the 16 categories evaluated at 4,861 U.S. hospitals this year by U.S. News & World Report. Posted by Katy Harper on 7/16/2009 8:45:00 AM
  • UAB Graduate Regina Benjamin Nominated U.S. Surgeon GeneralUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine graduate Regina Benjamin, M.D., was nominated to be surgeon general of the United States by President Barack Obama today. Benjamin is a family practice doctor in Bayou La Batre. Posted by Katy Harper on 7/14/2009 8:25:00 AM
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