Tag: UAB
UAB Plans Trainee Wellness Center
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is planning to open a wellness center for its physicians-in-training at UAB Hospital in 2021.
The Graduate Medical Education...
UAB Expands Tele-ICU Care in Region
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is partnering with Advanced ICU Care to expand ICU telehealth initiatives across the UAB Health System.
The partnership includes...
UAB Aging Center Renews $4.5 Million Grant
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging has renewed a $4.5 million grant to...
UAB Named an Exploratory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
The National Institute on Aging has named the University of Alabama at Birmingham an exploratory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, one of 31 sites in...
UAB Researcher Wins AHA Prize
Ramaraju Ruraraju, Ph.D., a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is one of four $5,000 prize winners in a competition developed by...
UAB Launches GuideSafe Statewide
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has launched its anonymous exposure notification app — GuideSafe™ — to the general public.
Supported by Coronavirus Aid, Relief...
Telemedicine: A New Way of Health Care Delivery in Alabama
Alabama has been a leader in a national health care trend driven by the ongoing virus crisis, thanks to quick action by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama.
Alabama Moving to Covid Contact Tracing
Contact tracing of individuals in Alabama infected with SARS-CoV-2 is coming soon, by way of a smart phone application now being developed by the...
350-Fold Telemedicine Boom “Nothing Short of a Miracle”
The swift adaptation of the Alabama health care system to telemedicine during the virus crisis has been "nothing short of a miracle," says Dr....
Wide Search to Repurpose Drugs for Sars-Cov-2
UAB picked to join international effort in search of existing drugs useful against COVID-19