UAB HealthNews Headlines

Men's Health Magazine published its first list of top physicians for treating men's health issues.

UAB is testing a non-surgical alternative to a risky, yet effective surgical procedure for patients with emphysema.

Birmingham-based Jim ‘N Nick’s Bar-B-Q restaurants have donated $10,000 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Breast Health Center to help patients defray some of the costs associated with starting and completing breast cancer treatments.

Edward E. Partridge, M.D., has been named the new director of the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center. Robert Rich, M.D., senior vice president and dean of the UAB School of Medicine.

New research from UAB indicates that patients with heart failure who have low to low-normal serum potassium levels are at increased risk of death.

For many women coughing, laughing, sneezing, running or lifting heavy objects causes urine to leak, a condition commonly known as stress urinary incontinence.

New research from UAB shows that the effect of diabetes on the severity of illness and risk of death for patients with heart failure is much worse in women than men.

Could a harmless virus fight cancer?

UAB experts share some very important pointers about staying healthy this season.

UAB Hospital is expanding its Bravery Beads program to include babies cared for in its Regional Newborn Intensive Care Unit (RNICU) and Continuing Care Nursery (CCN) to help parents mark milestones for premature and sick newborns.

This May, Birmingham residents will have the opportunity to celebrate Cinco de Mayo for a cause. The Young Supporters Board of the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center has announced plans for its first-ever event, Fiesta Ball 2007.

The UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center will host its Ninth Annual Sporting Clays Classic on Friday, April 20, 2007, at Talladega County's Selwood Farm in Alpine.

Melissa Wellons, M.D., assistant professor of preventive medicine at UAB, has been named to the American Heart Association’s (AHA) 2007 Trudy Bush Fellowship for Cardiovascular Disease in Women’s Health.

When it comes to the prevention of heart disease in women, the focus should be on lifetime rather than short-term risk factors. This message comes from the updated American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines published in a special women's issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

The American Cancer Society estimated that 2006 would bring with it 1 million new diagnoses of skin cancer in the United States – a number that could have been reduced by people limiting their exposure to the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays.

In an unprecedented move, the executive committee of the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce has voted unanimously to adopt a $125 million bond issue by the University of Alabama at Birmingham for its Comprehensive Cancer Center as its top legislative priority for 2007. In previous years, the chamber’s legislative agenda did not place priorities on individual support items.

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital CEO Michael R. Waldrum, M.D., is chair, for a second year, of the Birmingham-area March of Dimes WalkAmerica campaign. The campaign's 2007 goal is $440,000.

UAB researchers have developed a method to increase bone density in mice, a development that might have future benefit for humans in the treatment of osteoporosis and bone fracture.

UAB Hospital is the first health care institution in Alabama to receive the highest available level of accreditation from the American College of Surgeons: Level 1A Bariatric Center of Excellence.

Atmospheric humidity decreases in the winter, and dry skin can become more of a problem.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham started construction today on a $22.5 million project to replace its Comprehensive Cancer Center’s aging radiation treatment facility.

How the body handles calories is much more important to controlling cancer risks than how many or how few calories are consumed according to research at UAB.