Department of surgery

Diethelm was chair of the UAB Department of Surgery, and built the UAB transplant program.

UAB’s uterus transplant program is the first program in the Southeast and fourth in the United States.

Low or limited health literacy is common among adults in the United States and may affect health outcomes in many ways, according to the government’s Healthy People 2020.

New evidence for sex disparity in liver transplants suggests a change may be needed in how livers are allocated.

Lessons learned on the battlefield have brought about a change in blood usage at UAB.

Patients at UAB now have access to state-of-the-art robotic surgery technology.

Most people refrain from calling attention to an unusual bulge in their lower abdomen. But it could be a potentially dangerous condition that needs to be discussed with your doctor right away.

Watch a bleeding-control demonstration and join in with questions live as trauma surgeons show benefits of kits in public settings.

Wrong shipment of mice led to estrogen breakthrough in trauma survival.
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