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Findings from two studies were presented at a recent concussion conference.

Superintendent talked about\u00a0school safety measures, including door barricades, secure entrances, video surveillance, and school resource officers.

People Moves: Alliant Adds Rose in Dallas; IIAT Honors Gavin, Tatum, Vasquez, Schreiber Alliant Longtime energy and trade credit expert Jay Rose joined Alliant as senior vice president in the company’s Alliant Underwriting Solutions (AUS) division. He is based in Dallas. Rose will build a premier team with targeted industry expertise and a depth of underwriting capabilities to expand the division’s MGA capabilities within the power and energy sector. AUS is among the nation’s top 10 MGAs,...

 E-Mail There is currently no consensus on what quality end-of-life care for children with cancer looks like, or how to measure and deliver it; however, investigators recently assembled an expert panel to help fill this void. In a study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the panel endorsed 16 measures that cover different aspects of care that are important for children with cancer and their families. "Measuring the quality of the care del...

By Bob Shepard A modified herpes virus, alone and in combination with radiation, has been shown to be well-tolerated and effective in children with high-grade brain tumors – or gliomas – researchers have found at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children’s of Alabama. The findings were presented at the virtual American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2021 April 10-15 and published online in the New England Journal of Medicine. Brain tumors are the most common sol...

By Bob Shepard Dr. Selwyn Vickers, University of Alabama at Birmingham’s dean of the School of Medicine and senior vice president for Medicine, has been named president of the American Surgical Association for 2021. Founded in 1880, the American Surgical Association is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious surgical organization. The organization’s membership includes the nation’s most prominent surgeons from the country’s leading academic medical institutions. The primary mission o...

Subscribe New research led by Nita A. Limdi at the University of Alabama at Birmingham reports that the presence of chronic kidney disease is a major factor affecting the efficacy and safety of anticoagulant medications taken to prevent blood clots. The findings, reported in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, shine a spotlight on the effects of chronic kidney disease on the outcomes of patients taking traditional anticoagulants or newer direct-acting oral anticoagulants. Patients with car...

The complete article can be found at AlabamaNewsCenter.com. By Bob Shepard Research funding to the University of Alabama at Birmingham from the National Institutes of Health exceeded $325 million in 2020. The university received $325,573,502, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. That placed UAB 27th in the list of universities receiving funding from the NIH. Among public universities, UAB ranked 12th. The largest amount of funding, $269,911,974, went to investigators in t...

Cambridge school board updated on current and future district programs CAMBRIDGE, Ohio–The pandemic, to say the least, has changed all ideas of “normalcy”.  School systems across the country having  become one of the largest victims.  While education during the pandemic brings to mind  the many struggles involved.  While classes over the computer, children at their socially distanced desks and wearing masks come to mind.  However, there have been many successes. Some of those succes...

First large-scale COVID-19 vaccination sites open in Alabama Updated Feb 02, 2021; Facebook Share Alabama’s first large-scale COVID-19 vaccination sites opened Monday and Tuesday in Mobile, Auburn and Hoover, a week before more than a million seniors and essential workers in the state become eligible for shots. Staff and volunteers In Mobile, Lee County and at the Hoover Met will eventually be able to administer more than 1,000 vaccines a day, depending on supply, said Bob Shepard, spokesman...