UAB HealthNews Headlines Archive-November 2006

A decade’s worth of research on constraint-induced movement therapy by UAB Professor Edward Taub, Ph.D., is receiving its day in the spotlight in one of science’s most respected publications.

Despite the flurry of public service campaigns and education efforts, the diabetes epidemic in the US continues to escalate out of control.

Research published in the October issue of Obesity showed that more than three-fourths of participants in UAB’s EatRight Weight Management Program maintained their weight loss over the following two years after their involvement in the 12-week program.

Sumter, S.C., resident Sherri Selph was 41 in 1994 when first diagnosed with stage-two congestive heart failure. By 1999, her health was diminishing so rapidly that she was diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, and not expected to live beyond six months.

Younger stroke survivors (45 to 64 years old) have a disproportionately harder time accessing proper post-stroke medical care than do older stroke survivors (65 and above) in the United States.

UAB faculty-physicians comprise 85 percent (215) of all Birmingham metropolitan-area medical specialists (253) on the latest list of "Best Doctors in America."