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Research shows sharing of cavity-causing bacteria may not be only from mothers to children

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UAB Medicine is the first in Alabama to advance cardiology services by offering a first-of-its-kind heart stent that gradually dissolves in the body.

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Individuals with dry eye have hope as researchers continue to learn more about causes, symptoms and treatments.

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UAB has implemented a new application suite to improve clinical trial management, and enhance communication among trial sites and with study participants.

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Using a robust model for Parkinson’s disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers and colleagues have discovered an interaction in neurons that contributes to Parkinson’s disease, and they have shown that drugs now under development may block the process.

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UAB continues to improve maternal and infant health as the only university to be a member of all three NIH perinatal networks.

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Zebrafish are becoming more and more popular as a research model for human disease. Along with mice and humans, they are one of the most commonly studied animals in biomedical research.

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Mild to moderate muscle and nerve strain provokes symptom flares in individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome.

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The NIH recently awarded UAB $11.5 million to support studies that will assess treatment of babies born with congenital cytomegalovirus but no symptoms, and frequency of neonatal herpes infections in the United States and Peru.

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University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers report a new quality-control checkpoint function in developing B cells, cells that produce antibodies to protect the body from pathogens.

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Walker will help identify which types of businesses embrace or overlook the importance of cybersecurity, and help capture best practices to increase the adoption of cybersecurity technologies.

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A special form of RNA called extra-coding RNA controls the careful targeting to add or remove methyl groups to chromosomal DNA of the adult neuron. The ecRNAs are fundamental regulators of DNA methylation patterns in the adult brain through interaction with DNA methyltransferase enzymes and are involved in creation of memories.

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UAB researchers have found that stored samples of urine and cerebral-spinal fluid from patients with Parkinson’s disease hold a brand-new type of biomarker — a phosphorylated protein that correlates with the presence and severity of Parkinson’s disease.

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Nicholas Dionne-Odom, Ph.D., will use a five-year, $935,000 award to research and develop a health-coaching program to support family caregivers for persons with advanced cancer and help them stay healthy and functioning at a high level.

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A UAB psychologist discusses addiction and recognizing the symptoms of mental illness in adults and children.

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High mosquito and human population densities, combined with mosquito breeding conditions, are the central cause for Zika virus.

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The key to eating for wellness is not necessarily what foods to eat, but rather how and when we eat them, says Suzanne Judd, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Biostatistics.

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Knowing when an asteroid could impact Earth would be nice, but learning more about the impact a super volcano eruption at Yellowstone would have on civilization — and how to be ready for it — might be more prudent.

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With these tips from UAB Emergency Medicine, know how to identify poison ivy, oak and sumac, protect yourself against allergic reaction, and treat exposed areas.

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Tempers will flare and the threat of violence is often not far behind as temperatures rise, says a UAB psychologist.

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UAB study says laundry pod detergents pose an increased risk of severe injury for young children over nonpod detergents.

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Eric Wallace is piloting a telehealth program, which he says could open the door for Alabamians in rural communities to receive more subspecialized care without traveling long distances.

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Thousands of people, many of them children, suffer eye injuries from fireworks each year in the United States. UAB ophthalmologists at the only eye emergency room in Alabama provide safety tips.

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Spirituality plays a central role in many aspects of African-American culture, and UAB School of Nursing postdoctoral scholar Deborah Ejem, Ph.D., will explore how significant a factor it is.

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Metabolism-based therapies such as the ketogenic diet have the potential to become a valuable adjunct to standard cancer treatment.

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A UAB study in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows patients’ mobility while hospitalized helps maintain daily activity in older adults.

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Women live longer than men. This simple statement holds a tantalizing riddle that Steven Austad, Ph.D., and Kathleen Fischer, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham explore in a perspective piece published in Cell Metabolism on June 14.

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A US Fire Administration 2014 report says there are more than 2.5 million American users of the devices, and cites 25 incidents of e-cig or vape device explosions between 2009 and 2014. UAB surgeon Chandra Ellis, M.D., has operated on two patients injured by vape explosions, and treated five in clinic and offers some words of caution on the use of vape pens.

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Clinical psychologist Josh Klapow, Ph.D., in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says children in particular will be at a loss in understanding, processing and coping with the myriad issues surrounding the devastating Orlando shooting.

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New Living Donor Navigator Program tailored to African-Americans and a new Facebook app aim to increase access to living kidney transplants and reduce the number of patients awaiting transplant.

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Hepatitis C testing in the UAB emergency department has discovered 2,436 positive cases since September 2013. Physicians say identifying patients and linking them to therapy is one step to reduce the infection rate locally. The program can also serve as a model that could one day eradicate hepatitis C in the United States if done on a national scale.

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Prostate cancer physicians look to provide personalized medicine to prostate cancer patients with a new medical device.

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Jianyi Zhang works to create tissue that can replace or protect damaged muscle after a heart attack. He and colleague offer perspectives on that in a paper in Science Translational Medicine, and he shares his plans to bioengineer heart tissue cell-by-cell.

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A UAB physician provides information on risks, recommendations and effects of Zika virus for pregnant women.

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UAB’s William Curry, M.D., explains the advantages for millennials to find a primary care physician and why it is a necessary step to take for their health.

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Blacks are four times more likely than their white counterparts to die from stroke at age 45.

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Investigators with the UAB School of Health Professions UAB/Lakeshore Research Collaborative have been awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention totaling more than $10 million during the next five years.

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UAB has received a grant to develop and implement Ebola and infectious disease training to further protect health care and public safety workers.

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Among black men, those with a high degree of West African genetic ancestry have less abdominal fat than those with a lower degree.

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In experiments with isolated cystic fibrosis lung cells, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers and colleagues from two other institutions have partially restored the lost function of those cells to therapeutic levels.

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UAB physician Fernando Ovalle says one of the more difficult aspects of finding enrollees for the trial is that many physicians immediately think adults who show diabetic symptoms are likely type 2 diabetics when — if their body mass index is below 30 — it may actually be type 1 diabetes.

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UAB engineering professor Dean Sicking’s SAFER Barriers will be installed at the historic Le Mans Race Circuit.

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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.

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Big data provides insight into patient readmission after pediatric neurosurgery.

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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.

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Lynda Welker has experienced many hardships, but the Kirklin family has helped her live a full life.

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Researchers at UAB look to integrate health care within rural communities to improve care for children.

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