UAB Health e-Newsletter

Nine UAB Hospital specialty programs are among the nation’s top 50 — five are in the top 25 — of the 16 categories evaluated at America’s 5,462 hospitals this year by U.S. News & World Report.

Brain cancer experts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have been selected for membership in the Ivy Genomics-Based Medicine Project. The project is a national consortium of cutting-edge hospitals and academic centers working to improve treatment and survival for patients with a kind of malignant brain tumor called a glioma.

Race by itself is not a factor in heart failure when white and non-white patients are evenly matched on baseline variables such as age, weight, medical history and cardiac function, according to new research from UAB. The findings, published in the June issue of the Journal of Cardiac Failure, are the first to use a propensity-matched technique to look at racial disparities in heart failure.