Health & Medicine

The All of Us Research Program, an effort by the NIH to build a national database for medical research, launches on May 6 at UAB and six other sites nation-wide.

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

Researchers have found the rate of hospitalization for sarcoidosis has increased, and in-hospital mortality associated with sarcoidosis has decreased.

Researchers use compounds found in a combination plant-based diet to successfully prevent and treat ER-negative breast cancer in mice.

Researchers have found a new, more accurate way to determine if adolescents are overweight, important findings considering many school districts label adolescents — who tend to be more vulnerable to weight bias and fat shaming than adults — as obese.

UAB School of Dentistry is offering patients with cavities between teeth a new, less painful option for treatment in a new clinical trial.

For the first time in humans, it has been reported that eating early in the day lessens daily swings in hunger and changes the 24-hour pattern of fat oxidation and energy metabolism, which may aid in weight loss.

The clinical lab in Spain Tower analyzes up to 5,000 tubes of blood each night, providing vital data for caregivers and patients in the nation’s third-largest public hospital.

Contrary to advertisements, bumper pads and stuffed animals are not part of a safe sleep environment for infants.

UAB neurologists have reported the first case study of a patient with a brain bleed linked to consumption of an energy drink.

Kids often acquire S. mutans, a cavity-causing bacterium from nonfamily members, researchers report at the American Society for Microbiology annual meeting.

A new study from the UAB School of Dentistry shows that women who are pregnant are more likely to have gingivitis in their first and second trimesters, which can negatively affect mother and baby.

Springing forward with daylight saving time may increase your risk of having a heart attack if you have a history of heart disease.

A new national study by UAB Dentistry researchers has found that most general dentists are not following root canal standard of care guidelines.

Originally built in 1975, the Wallace Tumor Institute is the hub of the Cancer Center’s research and administrative enterprise.
Pennington has served as senior vice president and chief operating officer at Medical West since 2003.

UAB is the only hospital in Alabama that can repair leaks around replacement heart valves using minimally invasive techniques.

Renal replacement therapy performed continuously over 24 hours provides better hemodynamic tolerance, fluid removal in critically ill patients with kidney failure.

Adrenalin-suppressing beta-blockers may delay need for valve-replacement surgery if used early in a growing cause of heart disease.

Data could lead to better advice for primary-care doctors struggling with a rising tide of older adult patients still in throes of youthful bad habits.

Quirky evolution yields clues to a fatal condition.

With a grant from the Gates Foundation, UAB researchers will target a bacteria blamed for birth defects in the Indian subcontinent.

Newly named condition, “isolated diastolic hypotension,” can be difficult to treat while increasing risk of death.
Blueberries provide nutritious benefits and prevent cell damage that can lead to cancer.

There’s ticks in them-there woods, and that means the possibility of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, as one UAB patient recently discovered.

There's a new designer drug wreaking havoc across the United States, and even though it sounds innocent, it can be deadly.

UAB Hospital went to a full-time room-service approach for all patient meals in October 2010
