UAB Health e-Newsletter

A study involving UAB Hospital’s Regional Newborn Intensive Care Unit and the NIH Neonatal Research Network provides guidelines that give physicians and parents more information on which to base decisions about how aggressively to treat extremely low birthweight babies.

This next generation nanotechnology could prove vital to reducing coronary artery disease, the number one cause of death in the United States, said Ho-Wook Jun, Ph.D., a UAB assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering and principal investigator on the discovery.

Ready for a quick quiz on pancreatic cancer? If not, you’re not alone. The disease isn’t as familiar to most people as breast or ovarian cancer, for example, but it’s important to know the basics so that you can help protect yourself. Here are a few key facts.