Healing Notes
Music gives us great pleasure, but it can also be a tool to help people at their most vulnerable moments.
Health & Medicine
Working for Wellness
History tells us that a community’s gift can often become its curse. Such is the case with Walker County. The remoteness and unspoiled natural beauty of the region makes an autumn drive along the yet-to-be-completed Corridor X a lesson in conservation. But remoteness means inaccessibility, a damper to industry and a curse to preventative and emergency medical care.
Medical Marvels
At The University of Alabama, numerous researchers embark on the challenge to bioengineer systems, specifically in breast cancer detection, cancer treatment options and robotic prosthetics.
Paying Attention to ADHD
A University of Alabama physician co-chairs an effort to write national guidelines for treating ADHD on college campuses.
Patients ‘Head over Heels’ for Dizziness Research via Rotating Chair
A unique Roto-Tilt chair helps a University of Alabama researcher test portions of the inner ear to assist those suffering from dizziness and balance problems.
Links to Zinc: Nutrition Expert Finds Tie Between Trace Mineral, Birth Weights
Some counties in Alabama have infant mortality rates higher than those in some Third World counties. For a UA researcher, this gives added significance to recent findings that low blood zinc levels in expectant mothers can increase by eight times the risk of delivering low birth-weight babies.
The Stigma Remains
To Dr. Pamela Payne Foster, a former New Yorker, the most striking thing about the red brick building on the street corner of the Alabama town was the complete absence of signage indicating its purpose. It was home to an AIDS Service Organization.
Extending Health Care’s Reach
In 2001, the Capstone Rural Health Center opened in Parrish, bringing quality health care near to the doorsteps of the approximate 1,500 people living in and around the rural Walker County, Ala. community.
‘Baby Blues’ of a Different Shade
When you hear “baby blues,” chances are you think of the kind that hit after the baby is born – thanks to all the attention postpartum depression gets in the media and from celebrities like Brooke Shields.
UA Works to Stop PD
There’s an almost audible buzz emitting from a basement level laboratory in The University of Alabama’s Biology Building. The five graduate and 10 undergraduate students who work there, alongside Drs. Guy and Kim Caldwell, UA biology professors, are pumped. So too are their aforementioned faculty mentors.