With small-portion recipes and tips for shopping, stocking and storing food in a single-person household, cooking can be easily tailored to feed one, said Suzanne Henson, a registered dietician with University Medical Center. The secret of making cooking for one successful and enjoyable, Henson said, is not to think of a meal as self-contained but…
A trifecta of infectious illnesses—COVID-19, flu and RSV- peaked during the winter months and RSV could spike again in the spring, according to Dr. Tom Weida, a professor of family medicine at the College of Community Health Sciences and chief medical officer for University Medical Center. Weida provided updates about the three infectious diseases during…
Hospital medicine is a fast-growing specialty and Capstone Hospitalist Group is demonstrating that having doctors practice in hospitals is reducing the length of hospital stays and increasing patient satisfaction, said Dr. Richard Friend, dean of the College of Community Health Sciences. During a Mini Medical School presentation in February, Friend and Dr. Lisa Gillespie, medical…
Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful skin rash with blisters in a localized area, and it affects 1.2 million people a year in the United States. Dr. Jane Weida, professor and chair of the Department of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine at the College of Community Health Sciences and a family medicine…
Top Grads: One in seven family medicine physicians practicing in Alabama graduated from The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency, one of the oldest and largest family medicine residencies in the United States. The residency is operated by the College of Community Health Sciences.
Dr. M.N.V. Ravi Kumar, Distinguished University Research Professor and faculty with the College of Community Health Sciences, received a research award from the Royal Society of Edinburgh for an international project focusing on nanomedicines to treat kidney diseases.
