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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 of the association is to be the premier organization for surgical science and scholarship. Vickers’...

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 cardiovascular disease are frequently prescribed anticoagulants to prevent blood clots from forming and...

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 the School of Medicine. This was an increase of more than $13 million over 2019, good for 24th overal...

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 successes, and hopes and plans for the future, were a major topic at Tuesday night’s Cambridge City Scho...

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 for the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Shepard said he expected more than 800 vaccines to be ...