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UAB Hospital, which leads the List, saw a revenue increase of more than 15 percent from our previous reports. The rest of the top five hospitals on the List also saw revenue growth, albeit to smaller degrees.
The research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham states that an estimated 123,355 high heel injuries were treated in emergency rooms across the United States between that 10-year span.
U.S. government-issued dietary recommendations continue to evolve over time.
The grant recipient, J. Crawford Downs, vice chair of research in the UAB Department of Ophthalmology, is particularly interested in discovering the reasons that the elderly and people of African descent are more likely to develop glaucoma,
The partnership between the Depot and the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Collat School of Business to establish the UAB Innovation Lab gives UAB students the opportunity to develop their own companies while also providing them with real-world business experience as they prepare to enter the workforce.
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham crunched the numbers from the Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. They estimated that 123,355 high-heel-related injuries were treated in emergency rooms in the U.S. from 2002 to 2012, and the rate doubled during that 10-year span.
Years after a massive stroke, patients are still regaining their ability to move and speak. Now, there's a therapy that researchers say can help brain injured patients reclaim their lives.
A new study from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that injuries occur most among young adult women.
Alabama is one of eight states with at least six counties in the top quartile for both vision loss and poverty.
Is it time to give your high-heeled shoes the boot? Injuries related to the perilous but fashionable footwear nearly doubled in the United States in a recent 11-year-period, new research finds.
The Alys Stephens Center's summer/fall 2015 season will continue the performing arts center's tradition of diverse programming. Jazz, folk, fusion, classical and jam bands populate the schedule, alongside dance performances and Alabama talent.
The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is currently forming a plan to attract more investors into university research enterprises that could lead to more jobs and spinoff companies in Birmingham.
New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham finds genetic variants that occur in nature and lay the groundwork for future studies of diseases and treatments in humans.
Preliminary study shows dramatic trend of cost savings in lay navigation program for cancer patients
In 2012, the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center created the Patient Care Connect Program, a lay patient navigation initiative with the support of a $15 million Health Care Innovation Challenge Grant Award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation with the aim of achieving better health and better health care at a lower cost.
UAB investigators are part of the LIBERATE Study, examining whether the one-way valves help improve lung function in patients with severe emphysema.
How does a doctor diagnose something they've never seen before? One answer comes in the form of online tool VisualDx, a website and app used by medics to solve clinical conundrums — in real-time.
Preliminary study shows dramatic trend of cost savings in lay navigation program for cancer patients
UAB presented an observational study at this week’s annual American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago that indicates a more rapid decline in Medicare costs and patient resource utilization during implementation of a lay navigation program.
John Jones III has been named the University of Alabama at Birmingham's vice president for Student Affairs.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) Oncology Research Program (ORP) is collaborating with Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change (IGLC) to establish a peer-reviewed grant program to elicit proposals focused on health care provider performance and/or health care quality improvement and education projects.
A study of the rapid evolution of the insulin-signaling molecular network that regulates growth, reproduction, metabolism and aging lays important groundwork for future studies.
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) say developing hypertension, even if it is eventually controlled with medication, significantly increases the chance of having a stroke.