May-June 2004

UAB's Charles Elson, MD, chaired the 13-member group and comments on their findings.

A clinical approach - CME credit available

Eight departments within the School of Medicine ranked in the top 10 in funding nationally.

Study defines why some are at increased risk of acquiring HIV infection.

These studies further support last year's recommendations that menopausal hormone therapy not be used to prevent cognitive decline or dementia in older postmenopausal women.

A study under way at UAB aims to determine if an experimental vaccine is safe and effective in preventing genital herpes in young women.

Motor vehicle fatality rates among older drivers — particularly those age 85 years or older — have been on the rise, accounting for more fatal crashes per mile driven than any group except teenage males.

Heimberger named to John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences Board.

Long-term use of statins may help prevent the onset of glaucoma.

UAB hires Chief knowledge Officer, who also will serve as Health System Chief Technology Officer

Mark N. Hadley, MD, who recently stepped down as president Congress of Neurological Surgeons reports on new guidelines.

Ronald Alvarez, MD, director of UAB's Division Of Gynecologic Oncology, will help the Department of Defense determine the best proposals for $10 million in appropriations for its 2004 Ovarian Cancer Research Program.

Study will determine why some people develop addictions while others don’t and why some choose to kick their drug habit while others continue.

Most cancers found are not likely to be clinically significant.

Report finds conclusive links between cigarette smoking and leukemia, cataracts, pneumonia and cancers of the cervix, kidney, pancreas and stomach.

Raymond K. Lyrene, MD, professor of pediatrics at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham), received the Karlin Henze Memorial Award presented by the Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center at UAB.