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Paired-kidney Transplants

Last year, 262 patients at UAB underwent kidney trans-
plantation. An additional 60 patients a year could receive a donor kidney through pro-
grams that reduce waiting times for life-
saving organs

Deep South Network for Cancer Control
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded UAB a $6.4 million grant to reduce cancer mortality disparities in minority and poor populations in Alabama and Mississippi.
Trustees Establish Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
Dr. Drelichman

Assistant Professor of Surgery Ernesto R. Drelichman, MD, will serve as the center's initial director.

US Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Shaw visit UAB

UAB Hospital Chief Operating Officer Michael R. Waldrum, MD, takes the US Secretary of State and British Foreign Secretary on hospital tour.

232 UAB Physicians Make "Best Doctors" List
The latest list of "Best Doctors in America" includes 232 UAB physicians, comprising more than two-thirds of all specialists from the Birmingham metropolitan area now in the Best Doctors database.
Leading Nurtrition Text Honors Late UAB Professor
The 10th edition of Modern Nutrition in Health & Disease, the leading comprehensive clinical nutrition text in the country, honors the late Roland Weinsier, MD, DrPH, a UAB professor of nutrition sciences.
UAB Emergency Medicine Residency Addresses State Physician Shortage
UAB's Emergency Medicine residency program seeks to stem the serious lack of board-certified emergency physicians in Alabama.
The Aging Face: Turning Back Time
The multitude of new fillers on the market for percutaneous injections that fill out the face rather than lift it is changing the paradigm of cosmetic surgery.
Adapt Study
ADAPT (Altering Diet in African American Populations to Treat Hypertension), is a study sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to evaluate effectiveness of a dietary intervention modified for African Americans to lower cardiovascular and other disease risks.
New School of Nursing Dean Named
Doreen Harper, PhD, dean of the Graduate School of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Worcester, becomes dean of the UAB School of Nursing November 1.
Former Dean Returns to Sign Books
Dr. Meador Symptoms of Unknown Origin — A Medical Odyssey
Heart Failure Center

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded UAB 1 of 5 $18 million Specialized Center of Clinically Oriented Research grants in heart failure.

2005 US Dietary Guidelines
The expert panel who authored the 70-page report based its extensive, and, for the first time, highly specific recommendations, on review of the most current scientific literature.
UAB Eye Surgeon First in State to Do New Cornea Transplant Procedure
PLK surgery, developed over the past 5 years by a Dutch eye surgeon, involves surgically removing the endothelial layer, or innermost layer, of the cornea while leaving the outer two layers of the cornea intact.
Hypoglycemia Rare After Islet-cell Transplant
Episodes of dangerously low blood glucose, or hypoglycemia, were greatly reduced in people who received an islet transplant for poorly controlled type 1 diabetes, according to an analysis of outcomes in 138 patients who had the procedure at 19 medical centers in the United States and Canada.
Lumbar Fusion Guidelines
Most people do not require surgery for back pain, which often resolves with simple measures. Lumbar spinal fusion, however, is extraordinarily effective in selected patients, especially to correct a spinal instability causing pain.
Fine-needle Biopsy Safe and Effective for Staging Lung Cancer
EUS-FNA is a highly accurate, minimally invasive tool that has revolutionized staging of patients with non-small cell lung cancer prior to surgical resection.
UAB Health System Responds to Hurricane Katrina
How to Locate Katrina Victims Transfered to Alabama Hospitals
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