“This center will help expand access to ALS care along the Gulf Coast, making a positive impact on patients and their families, but it will also honor a great man in Kelly Butler,” said Owen Bailey. “The lives he touched are too many to count, and through this center, his legacy will live on and impact many more lives for decades to come.”
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With a goal of improving the lives of sick and injured children, the USA Health Office of Development recently promoted Hayley Chancey to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals program manager for USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital.
Oral cancer is preventable and treatable if detected early. That’s the takeaway from “Watch Your Mouth!” a statewide campaign launched this month to raise awareness about cancers of the mouth including the tongue, soft palate, tonsils or back of the throat.
African-American patients with advanced ovarian cancer were found to have a pre-existing immune response linked to worse survival rates compared with their white counterparts, according to research led by Dr. Rodney P. Rocconi, a gynecologic oncologist and interim director of the USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute.
“The anatomy and physiology of patients don’t change across the world,” Phillip Brennan reflected on his time at Kibogora Hospital in Rwanda. “The main differences were the buildings and tools used to practice surgery.”
Beth Huffmaster, CRNP, a long time nurse practitioner with USA Health University Hospital’s Level 1 Trauma Service, has been selected as a fellow for the Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program.
USA Health physician Om Jha wins international Mahatma Gandhi Expatriate Award for his work to help extremely premature infants thrive.
Patients who survive critical illness oftentimes exhibit long-lasting problems with memory, thinking and reasoning. In some instances, these difficulties in thinking resemble problems consistent with Alzheimer’s disease.
USA Health researchers studying HPV vaccination rates in Alabama discovered that counties with higher rates of HPV-related cancers in unvaccinated adults had higher rates of HPV vaccinations among adolescents, according to research presented at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology’s Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer.
Twelve studies by the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute were accepted for oral or poster presentations at the national Society of Gynecologic Oncology’s 50th Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer.
USA Health Division of Endocrinology's diabetes education program recently was recognized by the American Diabetes Association for meeting the National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support.
Researchers at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine have developed a pre-clinical model for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), a progressive disease that occurs in critically ill patients.
Dr. Allen Perkins, professor and chair of family medicine at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, recently was named president-elect of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine.
