UAB Undiagnosed Diseases Program Finds New Genetic Variant

Jan 17, 2020 at 03:56 pm by steve

For most of her life, a young woman had been a medical mystery. At age five, her lower limbs began to show impairment. The cause eluded physicians. As an adult in her 20's, sh.... Read More

Collaboration between UAB and Harvard Results in New Non-Invasive Tool for CF

Nov 25, 2019 at 02:40 pm by steve

For the past decade, Steven M. Rowe, MD, director of the Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center and a professor of medicine at UAB, has been partnering with his.... Read More

New Non-invasive Procedure Treats Essential Tremor

Sep 18, 2019 at 10:56 am by steve

Essential tremor is a progressive neurological disease that affects about 10 million people in the United States. There is no known cause for the disease, but now there is an.... Read More

UAB Seeks All of Us Participants for Precision Medicine Study

Sep 18, 2019 at 10:28 am by steve

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is continuing to enroll patients in the All of Us Research Program, a national program spearheaded by the National Institutes of.... Read More

Safe and Effective Vaccines are Protecting Children

Jun 18, 2019 at 06:01 pm by steve

Since the middle of the twentieth century, vaccines have prevented countless cases of disease and have saved millions of lives. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.... Read More

December 2024

Dec 16, 2024 at 08:55 pm by kbarrettalley

Your December 2024 Issue of Birmingham Medical News is Here!