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The University of Alabama at Birmingham announced it will receive over 10,000 initial doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine this week. (Shutterstock)
BIRMINGHAM, AL The University of Alabama at Birmingham this week will receive a shipment of over 10,000 doses of the new Pfizer vaccine against the coronavirus.
In a news release, the university said the initial doses will be given to health care workers, including clinic staff, at the UAB Hospital, along with other hospitals in Jefferson County and with Emergency Medical Services workers in the seven-county region.
UAB will be the only location in the county to receive the vaccine because it has access to several minus-80 degree freezers needed to store the vaccine, according to the release.
LITT surgery, using heat generated by a laser, offers less side effects and a shorter hospital stay compared to traditional epilepsy surgery.
It is called LITT, or laser interstitial thermal therapy. It is a new procedure for some types of epilepsy, using a laser to remove brain tissue that is causing seizures. In Alabama, it is available only at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children’s of Alabama.
“In the short time we’ve been performing the LITT procedure, we’ve found it can reduce the number of open brain surgeries for epilepsy surgeries where we have to remove part of the skull,” said Kristen Riley, M.D., professor in the Department of Neurosurgery. “LITT uses a laser beam directed through a pencil eraser-sized incision in the skull. For those cases where it is appropriate, LITT is less invasive, with fewer side effects and a shorter hospital stay.”
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Do people who go by Dr. need to carry stethoscopes?
One writer in The Wall Street Journal seems to think so, at least when it comes to Jill Biden, who has a doctorate in education and calls herself Dr. Jill Biden.
In an opinion piece published online Friday, the author, Joseph Epstein, addressed the president-elect’s wife as “kiddo” and offered her advice on “what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant matter.”
“Any chance you might drop the ‘Dr.’ before your name?” he wrote. “‘Dr. Jill Biden’ sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic.”
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