Along with the UAB Medicine and UAB St. Vincent’s surgical teams, Hassan Alkhawam, MD (center) holds the Navitor TAVR device.

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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

Considerations Before Opting Out of Medicare

May 15, 2025 at 08:47 pm by kbarrettalley

By Kelli Fleming In recent years, we have seen an emerging number of physicians and healthcare providers transitioning to concierge, direct-to-consumer practices. Man.... Read More

CMMI Signals New Strategy and Terminates 4 Value-Based Care Models

May 15, 2025 at 08:45 pm by kbarrettalley

By Miranda A. Franco and Beth Pitman The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) recently released a statement on its plans to unveil a new strategy focus.... Read More

A Closer Look at the New HHS Policy to Limit Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking

Apr 21, 2025 at 09:55 pm by kbarrettalley

By Miranda A. Franco The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued a policy statement limiting the circumstances under which HHS agencies mus.... Read More

Healthcare Leaders Association attendees pose at Top Golf.

Healthcare Leaders Association of Alabama Holds Winter Conference

Apr 21, 2025 at 09:55 pm by kbarrettalley

By Steve Spencer When Lisa Beard, fresh out of college in 1994, was asked to help manage the Alabama Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) conference, she had n.... Read More

Feature Profiles

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

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

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

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

Peavy Performs Alabama’s First Cementless Oxford Unicondyl Knee Surgery

May 15, 2025 at 08:44 pm by kbarrettalley

By Laura Freeman Since the first advances in knee replacement surgery in the 1960s and 1970s, a steady progression of innovations in techniques and technology has con.... Read More

Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty at Grandview

May 15, 2025 at 08:44 pm by kbarrettalley

By Laura Freeman This April, Grandview Medical Center became one of the first in Alabama to offer a new weight loss procedure for bariatric patients called the Endosc.... Read More