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USA Health has expanded its sports medicine services with the opening of a new location on the campus of USA Health Providence Hospital in West Mobile. Orthopedic and sports medicine specialists are now seeing patients on the second floor of Building A101 at 6701 Airport Boulevard. This will be the primary location for USA Health…
Dr. Aishwarya Prakash has been named recipient of the 2024 Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EMGS) Samuel H. Wilson Award for Studies on DNA Repair. An associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and pharmacology at the Whiddon College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama (USA), Prakash was chosen from among applications submitted…
The University of South Alabama (USA) has been selected as a clinical site for a national research study on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, called diverse vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID). The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health, has commissioned a scientific team…
The University of South Alabama (USA) has opened its $8-million, 13,000-ft2 expansion on the first floor in the Educational Outreach Building of its Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences. The expansion was to accommodate student growth. It added additional areas for teaching, research and student study and included an advanced environmental analytical laboratory for…
Dr. Bassam Bassam, a professor of neurology at the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama (USA) and a neuromuscular neurologist at USA Health, has received another top award that recognizes his commitment and service as an educator. He was presented the 2024 A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award by the…
The University of South Alabama (USA) is looking for professionals to review, evaluate and score applications for medical cannabis business licenses in Alabama. Evaluators will be compensated. The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission engaged USA to coordinate the review, evaluation and scoring of applications in financial ability, business/management approach, operations plans and procedures, facility suitability and…
MOBILE, Ala. — Researchers at the University of South Alabama (USA) College of Medicine have been awarded a $1.15-million U.S. Department of Defense grant to study the effect of nicotine on prostate health, Business Alabama reported. Among other steps, the researchers will compare prostate tumor tissue from patients who smoke to that of patients who…
MOBILE, Ala. — The University of South Alabama (USA) recently announced that Dr. Mike Lin, associate professor of physiology and cell biology at USA’s Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine, has been awarded a $2.3-million, five-year renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He will use the funds to further investigate the link…
MOBILE, Ala. — Pending a final decision by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, those who catch greater amberjack and return their tags will have the opportunity to be awarded $250 per fish and an opportunity to contribute to the Greater Amberjack Count, the University of South Alabama (USA) announced. Dr. Sean Powers of…
MOBILE, Ala. — Dr. Christopher Davies, associate dean for research at the University of South Alabama’s (USA) Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine, recently was awarded a five-year, $3.5-million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to determine the molecular mechanisms that confer antibiotic resistance to Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterial species that causes gonorrhea.…
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