Skin Cancer Subtypes and Surgeries
Blake Phillips, MD
UAB Doctor Makes History with Breakthrough Heart Procedure
UAB St. Vincent’s New Treatment for High-risk Aortic Stenosis
Along with the UAB Medicine and UAB St. Vincent’s surgical teams, Hassan Alkhawam, MD (center) holds the Navitor TAVR device.
Peavy Performs Alabama’s First Cementless Oxford Unicondyl Knee Surgery
Patrick Peavy MD in surgery.
Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty at Grandview
Andrew Frey, DO

Business
Jim Hoover

Not Your Every Day Top Ten List

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

By Jim Hoover   On May 12, 2025, the head of the United States Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, Matthew Galeotti, issued a Memorandum to all division pe.... Read More
Kevin Bonner

AI Software Helps Healthcare Providers Receive Better Reimbursement Rates

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

By Lauren Johnson   This year is the fifth consecutive year that Medicare has cut physician reimbursement rates with a 2.83 percent cut that started in January. &ldquo.... Read More
Ron Shoe

HIPPA Security Alert

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

Mandatory Measures On The Horizon   By Laura Freeman   HIPPA security precautions previously considered optional are likely to soon become mandatory. Once final.... Read More
Beth Pitman

HHS, FDA Issue Request for Information to Support Administration’s Deregulatory Agenda

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

By Jordan K. Brossi, Michael J. Werner and Beth Neal Pitman The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently is.... Read More
Headshots of Elizabeth Webb, JD and Michael Webb, MD

CheckMySpot

May 15, 2025 at 08:49 pm by kbarrettalley

Tele-Dermatology with Board-Certified Dermatologists   By Jane Ehrhardt In the rapidly evolving world of telehealth, a new app is changing the way patients and physici.... Read More

Feature Profiles
Ronald Orso, MD

Ronald Orso, MD

Jan 14, 2025 at 12:09 pm by kbarrettalley

5,000 babies delivered, 50 years of medicine and four military medals   By Ansley Franco   Ronald Orso, MD still recalls visiting his sister and her husband, who.... Read More

Clinical
Blake Phillips, MD

Skin Cancer Subtypes and Surgeries

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

Blake Phillips, MD earned his medical degree from the University of Texas McGovern Medical School, followed by a Dermatology Internship and Residency at UAB. He also did a Fel.... Read More

UAB Doctor Makes History with Breakthrough Heart Procedure

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

By Ansley Franco   This April, William Maddox, MD, an electrophysiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was the first physician in Alabama to perform a pu.... Read More
headshot of Nick Cochran, PhD

HudsonAlpha Launches Pilot Project to Study Alzheimer’s Disease

May 15, 2025 at 08:51 pm by kbarrettalley

Pilot project opens enrollment at Smith Family Clinic for Genomic Medicine   HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, in collaboration with Phenome Health and the Buck.... Read More
Judy Corbett, MD

New Device Offers Mental Clarity Without Medication

May 15, 2025 at 08:46 pm by kbarrettalley

By Ansley Franco   Three months ago, Judy Corbett, MD, was attending a medical convention in Nashville, looking for tools she could bring back to her Gulf Coast GYN and.... Read More
Along with the UAB Medicine and UAB St. Vincent’s surgical teams, Hassan Alkhawam, MD (center) holds the Navitor TAVR device.

UAB St. Vincent’s New Treatment for High-risk Aortic Stenosis

May 15, 2025 at 08:45 pm by kbarrettalley

By Marti Webb Slay   When Hassan Alkhawam, MD, interventional and structural cardiologist at UAB St. Vincent’s, had a patient needing a new aortic valve, he.... Read More
Cover image of the June 2025 issue of Birmingham Medical News

June 2025

Jun 20, 2025 at 08:35 am by kbarrettalley

Your June 2025 Issue of Birmingham Medical News is Here!