Project has received more than $90 million since 1994 to fund prevention and treatment programs for youth and helped focus resources on minority care.

Donna Arnett, professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health, is the sixth UAB faculty member to serve in this role.

Traveler's Health Clinic Director David Freedman says concerns the Germany strain of E. Coli will spread in America are minimal.

Seafood from the Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida coastlines is safe for consumption according to federal testing.

The risk factors for stroke in the South also may be responsible for cognitive decline.