Along with the UAB Medicine and UAB St. Vincent’s surgical teams, Hassan Alkhawam, MD (center) holds the Navitor TAVR device.

Business

Not Your Every Day Top Ten List

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

By Jim Hoover On May 12, 2025, the head of the United States Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, Matthew Galeotti, issued a Memorandum to all division pe.... Read More

AI Software Helps Healthcare Providers Receive Better Reimbursement Rates

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

By Lauren Johnson This year is the fifth consecutive year that Medicare has cut physician reimbursement rates with a 2.83 percent cut that started in January. &ldquo.... Read More

HIPPA Security Alert

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

Mandatory Measures On The Horizon By Laura Freeman HIPPA security precautions previously considered optional are likely to soon become mandatory. Once final.... Read More

HHS, FDA Issue Request for Information to Support Administration’s Deregulatory Agenda

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

By Jordan K. Brossi, Michael J. Werner and Beth Neal Pitman The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently is.... Read More

Headshots of Elizabeth Webb, JD and Michael Webb, MD

CheckMySpot

May 15, 2025 at 08:49 pm by kbarrettalley

Tele-Dermatology with Board-Certified Dermatologists By Jane Ehrhardt In the rapidly evolving world of telehealth, a new app is changing the way patients and physici.... Read More

Feature Profiles

Ronald Orso, MD

Jan 14, 2025 at 12:09 pm by kbarrettalley

5,000 babies delivered, 50 years of medicine and four military medals By Ansley Franco Ronald Orso, MD still recalls visiting his sister and her husband, who.... Read More

Clinical

Skin Cancer Subtypes and Surgeries

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

Blake Phillips, MD earned his medical degree from the University of Texas McGovern Medical School, followed by a Dermatology Internship and Residency at UAB. He also did a Fel.... Read More

UAB Doctor Makes History with Breakthrough Heart Procedure

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

By Ansley Franco This April, William Maddox, MD, an electrophysiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was the first physician in Alabama to perform a pu.... Read More

HudsonAlpha Launches Pilot Project to Study Alzheimer’s Disease

May 15, 2025 at 08:51 pm by kbarrettalley

Pilot project opens enrollment at Smith Family Clinic for Genomic Medicine HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, in collaboration with Phenome Health and the Buck.... Read More

New Device Offers Mental Clarity Without Medication

May 15, 2025 at 08:46 pm by kbarrettalley

By Ansley Franco Three months ago, Judy Corbett, MD, was attending a medical convention in Nashville, looking for tools she could bring back to her Gulf Coast GYN and.... Read More

UAB St. Vincent’s New Treatment for High-risk Aortic Stenosis

May 15, 2025 at 08:45 pm by kbarrettalley

By Marti Webb Slay When Hassan Alkhawam, MD, interventional and structural cardiologist at UAB St. Vincent’s, had a patient needing a new aortic valve, he.... Read More