UAB HealthNews Headlines Archive-September 2006

Proper nutrition is an essential component of the cancer treatment process, and one that is often difficult to maintain.

The surgeon who led medical teams that performed the world’s first partial face transplant in France last year will deliver the annual Arnold G. Diethelm Lecture at UAB on Sept. 7

One third of all Alabamians experience pain at least once a month, according to preliminary data drawn from an Purdue Pharma/American Cancer Society-sponsored research project.

Eating dairy products, especially low-fat ones, could help lower your blood pressure, according to a report in the medical journal Hypertension.

UAB will be the home of the Alabama Neuroscience Blueprint Core facility, a research program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will link investigators from universities and institutions across the state and region.

Because of the volume of information available about cancer on the Internet or even through a simple phone call, it’s only natural to think anyone who needs the information on the disease will get it and understand it.

When you’re 17, it’s hard to imagine that the fries and Coke you’re enjoying with your friends could mean the difference between bouncing a grandchild on your knee at age 70 and dying before your first child graduates from high school. At 17, most girls haven’t given much thought to having kids at all—a teenage brain simply isn’t built to worry about health consequences 20 or 40 or 60 years down the road.

UAB has established a Center for Pediatric-Onset Demyelinating Disease (C-PODD), following action by the UA System Board of Trustees.

UAB Hospital’s Food Court, the North Pavilion Market Place, will observe its official grand opening starting at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 21.

Establishment of the Comprehensive Diabetes Center at UAB was approved by the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees, meeting in Tuscaloosa.

Health officials scoured Salina Valley spinach fields in mid-September in search of the source of a massive outbreak of E. coli contamination.

UAB has been named home to one of eight Advanced Centers for Parkinson’s Research by the American Parkinson Disease Association, Inc. (APDA).

The National Research Corporation (NRC) released its 2006/07 Consumer Choice Awards, ranking UAB Hospital among the nation’s 233 top hospitals in terms of consumer perceptions of quality and image.

UAB researchers are investigating whether a common but usually harmless virus can be used to treat a particularly devastating type of brain tumor called malignant glioma.