March-April 2005

UAB's clinic uses evidence-based interventions for people at high risk for cardiovascular disease, including those with newly diagnosed diabetes, hypertension, and elevated cholesterol.

In a dual-stage surgery UAB doctors returned a patient's own insulin-producing cells to him after surgically removing his pancreas to eliminate constant, severe chronic pancreatitis pain.

Asians and Pacific Islanders have high levels of blood iron, which is surprising since they have the lowest prevalence of the typical gene mutation associated with the disease in Caucasians.

The project is part of NIH’s Roadmap for medical research designed to speed movement of research discoveries from bench to bedside.

UAB transplant specialists are preparing to launch an initiative to reduce the number of people who are waiting for a donor kidney.

Study will determine safety and efficacy of a new class of HIV drugs designed to prevent the virus from entering healthy cells..

This facility has been an important piece of the fabric of our community for a number of years and we want to see that continue.

UAB is 1 of 10 medical centers nationally selected to participate in the 3-year SEDE study (Serial Evaluation of Ductal Epithelium)

The 64-slice scanner images chest volume quickly enough to get 'stop-action' pictures of a heart beating at up to 100 beats a minute.

US News & World Report ranks the School of Nursing 19th and the School of Medicine 23rd.

On-line CME gets thumbs up.

Use of smokeless tobacco helped hard-to-quit smokers give up their habit.

We are entering an era of true public access to defibrillation; at the Atlanta airport, nine lives have been saved in the last 18 months.

Use of the Chronicle implantable hemodynamic monitor significantly decreased the number of people whose heart failure deteriorated.

University Hospital's endovascular suite offers advanced technology to enhance patient care.

53% of the 156 UAB graduates will conduct their residency training in one of the primary care fields.

Dimericine provides a possible new approach for the prevention of skin cancers.

Gwaltney family pledge of more than $1.5 million is largest to date.