January-February 2004

Richard Shane Tubbs, PhD, named director of the Anatomical Donor Program and Gross Anatomy Laboratory.

UAB and Children's Hospital have launched a clinical consultation service in medical toxicology to enhance quality of care for children and adults with potentially toxic exposures from pharmaceuticals to environmental or industrial toxins to drugs of abuse.

The Health and Human Services Department has launched a plan to prevent diabetes in high-risk group.

Alston Callahan, MD, moved his family from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham in 1945 with dreams of opening a hospital dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases.

The professional staff in the Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Clinic at UAB's The Kirklin Clinic treats the full spectrum of head and neck disorders.

NIH's largest population analysis

The Public Access Defibrillation Study shows placing AEDs in public areas and training lay people to use them increases cardiac arrest survival.

FDA launches campaign to promote awareness of NSAID side effects including ulcers and severe, sudden hemorrhage.

FDA launches campaign to promote awareness of NSAID side effects including ulcers and severe, sudden hemorrhage.

Almost every American who dies from coronary heart disease has at least 1 of 4 major risk factors for the disease: hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, or smoking.

Heart attack patients treated in hospitals staffed by more registered nurses are less likely to die than patients treated in hospitals staffed by fewer RNs.

2004 treatment program can help children with attention-deficity-hyperactivity disorder.

UAB study aims to identify children with autism living in 32 north Alabama counties to assess disease prevalence.

Study authors found children with cerebral palsy-induced hemiparesis demonstrated significant improvement in motor function after constraint-induced movement therapy.

Testing can end diagnostic uncertainty

UAB has received a 5-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish an Autoimmunity Center of Excellence — one of four newly named centers and one only nine such centers nationwide.

Center to study three rare diseases -- Rett, Angelman, and Prader-Willi syndromes

Clifton Meador will speak at the AOA Annual Banquet and be signing his new bestseller.

A training program that uses interactive screen saver images linked to a Web site prepares hospital-based clinicians to respond to bioterrorist attacks.

Ed Partridge Steps Down as Director