Business

Matt Scully

Proposed Revisions to Title II of the ADA Impacting Healthcare Facilities

Mar 20, 2024 at 11:12 am by kbarrettalley

By Matt Scully   The Department of Justice recently published a notice of proposed rulemaking applicable to healthcare entities covered under Title II of the Americans.... Read More
Shannon Britton Hartsfield

EMTALA Patient Education Initiative Launched by HHS and CMS

Mar 20, 2024 at 11:11 am by kbarrettalley

By Shannon Britton Hartsfield   The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have started a new ef.... Read More
Jessie Bekker

Getting into the Medical Spa Game: A Primer on Legal Considerations

Feb 23, 2024 at 07:53 am by kbarrettalley

By Jessie L. Bekker From laser hair removal, to vitamin injections, these days patients are looking beyond traditional medical intervention to achieve “wellness”.... Read More
Charles Leath, MD talks with a patient.

UAB Uterine Transplant Program Celebrates Three Deliveries

Feb 23, 2024 at 07:52 am by kbarrettalley

  First Program of its Kind in the Southeast   By Laura Freeman   Learning young that you’ll never be able to give birth to your own baby can be deva.... Read More
James Trimm, MD

TCAR is Becoming Procedure of Choice for Obstructive Carotid Artery Disease

Feb 23, 2024 at 07:50 am by kbarrettalley

By Marti Webb Slay  Interventional cardiologists are more often choosing transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) over carotid endarterectomy or transfemoral carotid.... Read More

Feature Profiles

ALPQC Launching Obstetric Hemorrhage Initiative

Jan 10, 2024 at 06:21 pm by kbarrettalley

By Laura Freeman   Amid the joy of new life, one of the cruelest ironies is that giving birth still brings death to too many new mothers around the world. And it can be.... Read More

Clinical

Dr. Pineda in the kitchen.

Cooking for Cancer Evolves

Mar 20, 2024 at 11:12 am by kbarrettalley

By Jane Ehrhardt   About eight years ago, Luis F. Pineda, MD, published a book of recipes. “Cooking with Cancer was born with the idea of trying to improve the qu.... Read More
Thomas Watson, MD

Meaningful Progress in the World of Kidney Disease

Mar 20, 2024 at 11:11 am by kbarrettalley

By Thomas Watson, MD   Kidney Disease has long suffered a lack of research funding, lagging behind heart disease, cancer, and others. Consequently, until recently, ther.... Read More
Amit Momaya, MD

UAB First in Alabama to Perform Bridge-Enhanced ACL Repair

Mar 20, 2024 at 11:09 am by kbarrettalley

By Jane Ehrhardt   “The biggest innovation we’ve added is a biologic implant,” says Amit Momaya, MD, chief of sports medicine and surgeon in the UAB D.... Read More
Godlewski replaces a breathing tube that had become dislodged during surgery.

Effective Pre-Operative Evaluation is Critical to Providing Quality Anesthesia Care

Mar 20, 2024 at 11:09 am by kbarrettalley

By Marti Webb Slay   Anesthesiologists are now playing a bigger patient assessment role prior to surgery. “It’s becoming imperative that anesthesiologists p.... Read More
While in surgery, Dr. Beck views the aorta.

Adam Beck, MD Performs Nation’s First Aortic Aneurysm Repair with LumiGuide Fiberoptic RealShape

Mar 20, 2024 at 11:08 am by kbarrettalley

By Laura Freeman   If there is a medical situation that compares to feeling like you’re living under the sword of Damocles, finding that you have an aortic aneury.... Read More

February 2024

Feb 23, 2024 at 08:13 am by kbarrettalley

Your February 2024 Issue of Birmingham Medical News is Here!