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Baptist Health System Transforms Itself
In 2003, Baptist Health System was the dominant healthcare player in the central and north part of the state, with 10 hospitals, a string of health clubs, nursing homes, retirement homes, a home-health-care business and more. Today it’s a fraction of its former self. But hospital officials say after several years of restructuring, BHS is poised to move forward.
DEBORAH LOCKRIDGE |
Biologic Joint Resurfacing Leads to Improvements in Cartilage Repair
Articular cartilage defects in the knee is a common problem that typically leads to pain, loss of function and disability and may eventually result in debilitating osteoarthritis if not repaired. Conventional treatment options have included debridement, subchondral drilling, microfrACIure and abrasion arthroplasty, but over the past several years a new technique for cartilage transplantation has emerged in the United States as a fix for cartilage damaged knees.
ANN B. DEBELLIS |
Eyes in Space
Satellite Remote Sensing Gives Researchers New Tools to Find Answers
In a remote village in Kenya, a member of a UAB field team that is working to wipe out malaria puts on a red cap and punches coordinates into a small GPS unit. There, on the screen, he looks through the electronic eyes of a satellite orbiting high above the earth to see his own red hat in the high-resolution image.
LAURA FREEMAN |
Grand Rounds October
DCH Honors Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Munden to Lead Radiology at UAB
Robbin Inducted as Fellow in American College of Radiology
Gerald Takes Reins of UAB Lung Center
Clemens Named Editor-in-Chief of Bone Journal
Faulkner Named to New Position at Baptist Health System
Warren Named CEO of Children’s Health System
IMS Business Practices Achieves Quality Recertification
October 2007
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Homewood Hyperbaric Oxygen Center Offers Alternative Site for Treatment
Physicians prescribe medications every day for “off-label uses.” The medications haven’t undergone double-blind, placebo-controlled, FDA-approved trials for the alternate uses but are deemed acceptable because case studies have shown that they are effective for other illnesses. Woodie Fritz, MD asks fellow physicians to open their minds to similarly “off-label” uses for a long-accepted treatment: hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
TARA HULEN |
New Physical Therapy Procedures Offer Relief
In recent years, several new physical therapy modalities have been developed, which can provide relief from a number of conditions, including herniated discs, muscle injuries, and neuropathy, as an alternative to drugs.
SUSAN ROBINSON |
New Technology Provides Alternatives to Conventional Hip Replacement
Patients who need a total hip replacement typically face a long, painful recovery period and loss of femoral bone structure. However, technological advances are providing patients with options that may allow them to avoid conventional hip replacement surgery and reduce the duration of recovery and future revision surgeries.
ANN B. DEBELLIS |
Physician Spotlight: Dr. Jim McMinn
Dr. Jim McMinn learned to appreciate new places, people, and ideas early in life.
Growing up with a father in the Army, he attended 11 different schools in 12 years, living in cities scattered across the United States from New York to Kansas, and overseas in Germany and Panama.
STEVE SPENCER |
Redefining the Model
In the 1990s, many corporate-owned medical clinics around the state closed their doors when profits declined, but the recent re-openings of several of these clinics throughout the state may be an indication that hospital-owned physician practices are once again becoming a part of local medical communities.
ANN B. DEBELLIS |
Researchers Work to Quantify Structural Brain Changes
Edward Taub, PhD, a psychology professor at UAB, developed constraint-induced movement therapy (CI therapy) to help stroke survivors recover some function in affected limbs. With CI therapy, the therapist constrains the patient’s unaffected arm in a sling, forcing the patient to use the affected arm.
SUSAN ROBINSON |
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