Moon Nahm’s research has led to improvements in testing effectiveness of pneumonia vaccines, a key step to preventing deaths from S. pneumoniae, the leading cause of pneumonia estimated to kill 1.6 million children annually.
BREMSS celebrates the 20th anniversary of the founding of the regional trauma system.
Learning how sensory organs in the skin work may solve sensory disorders, including pain seen in inflammation, diabetes and cancer treatment.
Twenty faculty and six clinical departments are winners of the 2016 Argus Awards, given each year by medical students to honor their professors and course directors for excellence in medical education.
Cannon named Francis S. Collins scholar
Written by Adam Pope
Ashley Cannon, Ph.D., is the first individual in the UAB neurofibromatosis program to have received this significant honor.
Harvest for Health expands breast cancer study, looks for new participants across Alabama
Written by Adam Pope
UAB researchers want to introduce Alabama cancer survivors to a new kind of therapy — gardening.
Community rallies around two elementary school teachers battling breast cancer
Written by Tyler Greer
A fight with breast cancer has brought Odenville Elementary teachers Meg Lowry and Michelle Simmons closer as they learn the disease is “not your grandmother’s story anymore.”
Estrada named associate provost for Interprofessional Education and director of CIPES
Written by UAB Heersink School of Medicine News
Carlos A. Estrada, M.D., M.S., will begin the role of associate provost for Interprofessional Education and director of the Center for Interprofessional Education and Simulation (CIPES) on January 2, 2017.