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COVID-19, virtual medicine and teaching an old doc new tricks
Neurologist Peter King, M.D., shares his experience coming to terms with telehealth. -
UAB and ADPH enhance statewide stroke response system
A grant to the UAB stroke center will help maximize a state health department effort to better manage strokes in Alabama. -
$2.87 million grant studying varying presentation of behavioral symptoms in dementia
The study will look at how the variability of different behaviors can affect quality of life. -
Watts thanks employees for ‘stepping up,’ pledges continued openness and transparency in re-entry
UAB leaders shared plans and updates on re-entry, furloughs, expense-reduction strategies and more in a virtual town hall for employees July 13. -
‘Planning for all contingencies’: Answers from July 8 faculty town hall
UAB leaders offered guidance, answered concerns and recognized faculty efforts at a virtual faculty/instructor town hall July 8. "There's a willingness to work with anyone around issues they might have," President Watts said. -
UAB joins NIH consortium on genomics for assessing and managing risk of common diseases2
Genetic assessments can help predict the risk of common diseases, and UAB is part of a national study to better understand and implement polygenic risk scores -
The Parkinson’s disease gut has an overabundance of opportunistic pathogens
This novel finding will enable experimental studies to determine whether and how these microbes play a role in triggering the disease. -
“Essentials of Modern Neuroscience” written by UAB professors, bridges gap between basic and clinical neuroscience
The guide is unique in having separate, and extensive, basic versus clinical neuroscience sections, which support each other. -
Looking to the future with Dr. Francis Collins
In a talk at UAB on March 6, the NIH director shared his thoughts on exceptional opportunities for science and young scientists — and highlighted several exciting UAB projects. -
Discoveries on deck: Predicting uncontrolled bleeding
Learn how UAB researchers are taking on the most feared complication of the new generation of blood-thinning drugs.
