School of medicine

Fouad’s winning proposal is a comprehensive approach to fixing Alabama’s complex health problems and includes 90 partners on her team from government, business, education and more.

The clinic is an initiative of Building Healthy Communities, a project of the UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center

A new discipline sits at the intersection of neuroscience and engineering, where lessons learned from circuits, networks and chips are combined with the latest findings on brain circuitry.

NIH research funding to the UAB School of Medicine has increased by more than $100 million in the past five years, a barometer of the school’s success.

A new screening tool developed at UAB has been shown to be an effective aid in determining the severity of cognitive issues.

Groundbreaking research from UAB shows that out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of years lost and years lived with a disability due to a disease. 

Patients at UAB now have access to state-of-the-art robotic surgery technology.

Researchers found that regular tenofovir gel users were associated with reduced risk of HSV-2 infection.

Many people experience mood and energy changes during winter months, but is that a real medical condition?

Safe and effective therapeutic agents that can treat these cancer-causing viruses are greatly needed.

More than 103,000 donors have contributed to the university’s largest-ever fundraising initiative to bolster the campaign’s priorities — programmatic support, facilities, faculty, research and innovation, athletics, and student support.

Jessica Martindale’s perfect vision was quickly tested after her infant son inadvertently scratched her cornea. Thankfully, physicians at UAB Callahan Eye Hospital were there to help.

All academic areas saw increases in grant award monies from November 2017 through October 2018 as the university continues to grow its mission.

Most people refrain from calling attention to an unusual bulge in their lower abdomen. But it could be a potentially dangerous condition that needs to be discussed with your doctor right away.

Children spend several hours in a wheelchair, going through a library and out to lunch, to understand and be aware of the challenges disabled people experience every day.

UAB experts share insight on what leads a person to have suicidal thoughts or actions, and how friends and family can help.

The National Cancer Institute highlighted research from UAB that shows how the epigenetic plant-based diet in mice can prevent cancer more effectively at younger ages.

The key to preventing overhydration is to let your body tell you when you need a drink.

As parents check off their children’s back-to-school needs, vaccinations should be top of the list.

A gene mutation causes wrinkled skin and hair loss; turning off that mutation restores the mouse to normal appearance.