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UAB is conducting a study to determine if new moms who are overweight can lose more weight with the help of a personal weight-loss counselor and an individualized weight-loss plan.

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The mental health fallout from September's terrorist attacks may affect those who witnessed disturbing images on television or in person as well survivors and rescue workers, says a UAB social work expert.

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The cooler temperatures of fall can bode ill for asthma sufferers.

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It is estimated that 10 million Americans, the majority of them women, suffer pain and dysfunction in and near the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), which connects the jaw to the skull.

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In heterosexual couples where one partner is HIV-positive, viral load (the amount of detectable virus in the blood), is a much stronger predictor of the risk of transmission in women than in men, according to a UAB study.

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Many biomedical engineers are also CEOs, taking their research and developing it into biotechnology companies.

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With so many options in birth control available, it can be confusing choosing the right one.

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Researchers at UAB have developed the first highly sensitive, non-invasive method of detecting and monitoring ovarian cancer.

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In the unlikely event of a chemical attack on the United States, firefighters and other emergency personnel are trained to respond to the event and take necessary precautions to protect the public and themselves.

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Marking what has been called a 'paradigm shift' in rehab medicine, the UAB Taub Training Clinic has opened its doors to provide Constraint Induced Therapy developed by a UAB neuroscientist.

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The U.S. war on terrorism will be carried out through retaliatory military strikes and diplomatic channels.

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Carving a Jack-O-Lantern with your children is a fun tradition that teaches creativity and knife safety.

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The Middle East and Indian subcontinent of the globe are hosts to a long list of infectious diseases, including malaria, dengue fever, filariasis, leishmaniasis and plague.

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President Bush says the United States will combat terrorism through retaliatory military strikes as well as through diplomatic channels.

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Displaying the American flag during times of national crisis and on holidays is a common practice in the United States, and knowing how to display the flag correctly is most important.

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High-risk mothers with a shortened cervix in the second trimester of pregnancy are significantly more likely to give birth to a premature baby, according to a study.

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The class of compounds that helps cause the brilliant color of fruits and flowers may keep you in better health.

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A UAB University Professor has written a hymn, "We Stand Strong," dedicated to the families of those lost in the Sept. 11 attacks.

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During a national crisis, children may have nightmares or have trouble getting to sleep.

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One kind of residual injury likely to be seen from the Sept. 11 attacks is severe eye trauma caused by flying glass, grit and debris from the collapsing buildings.

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It is likely that much of the financial and government data from offices in the devastated World Trade Center and Pentagon is preserved.

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"You Americans are vulnerable." That is the message that terrorists sent to the United States today, says international security expert Cassady Craft, Ph.D., at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Forensic expert Richard Weems, D.M.D., is often called in to help identify victims of mass disaster through use of dental records.

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Confined space rescue expert Alan Veasey, MPH, an instructor with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Center for Labor Education and Research (CLEAR) Workplace Safety Training Program.

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"Three things are now happening: responders are securing the scene, putting out the fires and treating causalities in the field and at hospitals," said Guillermo Pierluisi, M.D.

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When young quarterbacks and wide receivers are running for the end zone, make sure it's not their teeth that are getting tackled.

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Daily guidelines of care for those who undergo lung surgery can significantly reduce a patient's length of stay in the hospital and increase quality of care and patient satisfaction.

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According to the FBI, car theft is a $7.5 billion business.

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Businesses spend thousands of dollars and man hours each year creating work teams, which can consist of individuals working on a project, employees who work together to create a product or service, or can be as general as a department.

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UAB researchers have found that continuous infusion of the drug Baclofen directly to the spine can reduce spastic hypertonia -- involuntary, abnormal muscle movements common to patients following a stroke.

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It's the "fine-tuning" and programmable capabilities that make Medtronic's InSync system, approved Tuesday by the FDA, so unique in the treatment of congestive heart failure patients, according to Robert Bourge, M.D.

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UAB's highly successful weight management program, EatRight, is 25 years old.

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According to the U.S. Census, Hispanic immigrants are the fastest growing segment of the population.

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The term 'buyer beware' is never more true than when buying products from retailers going out of business.

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Baby boomers know that the population is aging. But as more begin to care for elderly parents, they begin to realize the implication of that statistic.

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Risk factors for heart disease are well known -- smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol -- but UAB researchers are looking at clinical depression as another potential risk factor for heart disease.

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Researchers at UAB are conducting the first study to determine if a drug called pleconaril may be safe and effective in preventing colds in adults.

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A study underway at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Psychology aims to determine how three of the known risk factors for childhood accidental injuries interact to create a greater risk for injury.

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Physicians can play an important role in reducing the number of crash-related injuries and deaths by advising patients to buckle up, according to a recent UAB study.

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The concept of status and expressing it through possessions is well documented by archeologists.

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An estimated 182,000 children under 15 are injured every year playing football and 20 percent of high school players sustain some type of head injury, says Tara Dortch of UAB's THINK FIRST injury prevention program.

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Parents who come into parent-teacher conferences with a sense of partnership will most likely have a better conference outcome, says UAB assistant professor of education Lois Christensen, Ph.D.

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UAB economics professor Ted Bos, Ph.D., is saving students and businesses nationwide countless hours of research with his Web site, Economic Time Series Page.

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The single greatest issue raised by families today is that they don't have enough time to spend as a family doing things they enjoy.

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The issue of human cloning is in the news again with an announcement by a controversial Italian doctor, that he will continue with his plans to clone human beings.

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Researchers have identified the particular antibody that causes the death of harmful cancer cells and those active in autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

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Two UAB biologists and their team of researchers have spent several years diving beneath the ice in the waters off Antarctica studying.

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A Birmingham woman with newborn triplets is the quintessential poster mom for World Breastfeeding Week, Aug. 1-7, designed to generate public awareness and support for breastfeeding.

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The fledgling field of light imaging holds the potential to "see" even the smallest of tumor, raising the possibility of an eventual cell-by-cell attack on cancer.

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Financial planning for a new baby goes beyond saving to pay for the hospital bill, which can cost as much as $5,000 for a healthy child.