Clinical

National Nephrology Initiative Aims to Advance Kidney Care

Mar 24, 2020 at 03:57 pm by steve

Cardiology, oncology and many other areas of medicine have benefited from remarkable advances in recent years. However, for kidney patients the standards of care have remained.... Read More

Clinical

Sepsis: What patients don't know could kill them

Mar 24, 2020 at 03:52 pm by steve

Teaching people to recognize signs of a heart attack, stroke and cancer has made a real difference in improving outcomes. However, one of the most common causes of death is so.... Read More

Clinical

Antibiotic Stewardship in Alabama

Mar 23, 2020 at 02:21 pm by steve

Last year, the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) investigated two Acinetobacter baumannii cases in one facility. Resistant to nearly all antibiotics, including the po.... Read More

Clinical

UAB Research Team Develops Compound being used to Treat Novel Coronavirus

Mar 23, 2020 at 01:06 pm by steve

The Antiviral Drug Discovery and Development Center (AD3C) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has developed remdesivir, an investigational drug that is being used to t.... Read More

Clinical

Preparing for Pandemic

Mar 23, 2020 at 01:03 pm by steve

COVID-19 Poses Challenges in a Global World Editor's Note: Information on COVID-19 continues to evolve on a daily, and sometimes hourly, basis. Much of the information contai.... Read More