Madeline Harris and Kristen Noles centered their careers on caring for patients at UAB Hospital; now they celebrate five years of breast cancer survivorship for Noles.
Big data provides insight into patient readmission after pediatric neurosurgery.
Researchers from UAB, Emory and Microsoft demonstrate that HIV has evolved to be pre-adapted to the immune response, worsening clinical outcomes in newly infected patients.
Lynda Welker has experienced many hardships, but the Kirklin family has helped her live a full life.
Researchers at UAB look to integrate health care within rural communities to improve care for children.
A treatment used for depression, Parkinson’s disease and autism shows promise to alleviate obesity in binge-eating disorder patients.
Antibiotic use in acute and long-term care facilities is a focus of UAB’s antibiotic stewardship program.
Daniel Deligio, O.D., treats a rare disease and provides successful treatment plan for Sam Peppers.
With a $2.5-million grant from the Gates Foundation's All Children Thriving initiative, UAB researchers are developing sensor-based devices that can detect signs of pre-term labor and predict which patients will encounter problems.
Oral administration of AZD1480 — one of the JAK/STAT pathway inhibitors generally known as Jakinibs — lessened the destructive inflammation and nerve cell degradation in the area of the brain affected by Parkinson’s.
Two young Alabama women formed a bond over a rare germ cell cancer affecting only 1,000 women across the United States.
Researchers have learned new information about how different people respond to aspirin, a globally prescribed drug in cardioprotection. The team identified more than 5,600 lipids in blood platelets and gained new insights into how these cells respond to aspirin.
UAB School of Nursing Professor David Vance, Ph.D., received a five-year, $2.86 million R01 grant to test ways of improving cognitive function in older adults with HIV.
Adam Gordon, O.D., discusses blue light, including the lack of clinical evidence in advertisements overstating dangers, as well as the effects of blue light on sleep and eye discomfort.
The facility will enable new distracted-driving research, addressing the major public health issue of highway and traffic-related injuries and death.
Researchers present data and a simple statistical network model that describe an unanticipated property of newly formed, immature neurons in the dentate gyrus.
MBA/MPH dual-degree program aims to equip public health professionals with business savvy.
UAB professor leads study in Brazil to help further understand the effects of Zika virus during pregnancy.
The Medical Genomics Laboratory at UAB is expanding its technological array with a new panel of diagnostic tests for genetic diseases known as neurofibromatoses and rasopathies, using the technique called customized deep-coverage, next-generation sequencing or NGS.
UAB researchers uncover new information about drivers’ likelihood to participate in risky roadway behavior.
Gift from United Therapeutics will establish UAB Xenotransplantation Program and bring additional resources to support the endeavor with a goal of genetically modified kidney transplants taking place by 2021.
Tector’s arrival will bring the addition of a multivisceral and small bowel transplant program to UAB’s Division of Transplantation.
Role of mentors for patients with diabetes is the focus of a $30,000 grant.
Using satellite imaging, UAB archaeologist Sarah Parcak may have found evidence of the 2nd Norse settlement in North America at a site in Newfoundland.
Research funding awarded to evaluate the effectiveness of disease-specific outcomes of patients using biologic therapies.
UAB child and adolescent psychiatry professor discusses children and this messy political campaign.
In his new book, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Clone Club,” international expert on the ethics of human cloning, Gregory Pence, explores issues raised in the sci-fi show “Orphan Black” about human cloning, its ethics and impact on personal identity, genetic enhancement, and other mysterious science. Pence takes a lighthearted look at cloning in popular culture and explains when the show gets the science right and when it doesn’t.
UAB statistician and multi-institution team discuss common statistical errors in obesity research and how to avoid them.
Michelle Harris came to UAB on maximal life support, unsure if she would live after a rare multisystem autoimmune disease attacked her lungs. Now, she goes home with her eyes on upcoming prom, graduation.
UAB researchers use novel approach with historic film to discover just how endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are.
Researchers made a microscopic snapshot of the early renal lipid changes in acute kidney injury, using a laser-scanning method called MALDI tissue imaging to localize the changes.
UAB assistant professor leads the way in providing therapy for HIV patients with chronic pain.
Developmentally appropriate activities conducted by parents with their child during the first three years after birth reduce childhood cognitive delays in low-resource families.
Remember the basics of water safety as you head to the pool, lake and beach.
Experts take an in-depth look into a favorite college pastime by understanding the dangers and risks of alcohol.
Springing forward with daylight saving time may increase your risk of having a heart attack if you have a history of heart disease.
Kejin Hu, Ph.D., has found a robust reprogramming factor that increases the efficiency of creating human induced pluripotent stem cells (HiPSCs) from skin fibroblasts more than 20-fold, speeds the reprogramming time by several days and enhances the quality of reprogramming.
UAB researchers present the first findings of a large study of cannabidiol for treating seizures
Middle aged and older workers at higher risk for cardiovascular health in some jobs.
UAB cardiovascular disease researchers are improving our understanding of the disease and finding new ways to provide medical care to patients.
New study sheds light on a link between noncorrectable vision problems and ADHD in children.
The protective effect of heme oxygenase-1 and its mechanism are described. Overexpression of this enzyme could protect the heart from life-threatening damage after cancer chemotherapy, and it also may be a way to increase the therapeutic window of such drugs.
Study shows that, although ZEBRA, a system intended to enable prompt and user-friendly deauthentication, works very well with honest people, opportunistic attackers can fool the system.
A small regulatory RNA called microRNA-155 appears to play a key role in the brain inflammation that helps foster Parkinson’s disease. This finding, using a mouse model, implicates microRNA-155 as both a potential therapeutic target and biomarker for this progressive neurodegenerative disorder.
The pathway leading to increased expression of TGF-β1 — which provokes the destructive lung remodeling of pulmonary fibrosis — involves Akt1 kinase-induction of reactive oxygen species and mitophagy, and alveolar macrophages are the primary source of TGF-β1 in the lung.
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