UAB Health e-Newsletter

The UAB Hospital has been selected as one of 12 U.S. finalists for Hospital of the Year Award.

A simple variation in a surgical technique developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham to reduce acute and chronic pain following lung surgery further reduces pain and helps return patients to normal activity quicker than the previous technique, according to a study published in the June issue of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

Laboratory studies by UAB researchers have shown that the drug triphendiol causes cell death in pancreatic and bile duct cancer cell lines, slows tumor growth and sensitizes tumors to chemotherapy treatments.