Stopping exercise leads to significant reductions in strength after just a few weeks, according to a new report from UAB researchers.
UAB Hospital has treated a patient with heat stroke and as the temperatures remain high, more patients with heat-related illnesses are expected.
Researchers at UAB are using Constraint Induced Therapy, a rehab technique first developed for stroke, in a new way — as a therapy for patients with aphasia.
Modified oxygen delivery device can provide safe, cost-effective life-saving therapy to infants and children in developing nations where pneumonia is the leading killer.
UAB research shows communication between neurons is not a static conversation, but an ongoing, dynamic story.
UAB’s Ursula Wesselmann is a member of the Institute of Medicine panel that issued a blueprint for better managing pain in America.
Greer Underwood, 9, became the first child in the U.S. to get an experimental heart device in March, keeping her alive for a Mother’s Day heart transplant.
There’s ticks in them-there woods, and that means the possibility of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, as one UAB patient recently discovered.
New drug may slow the progression of chronic kidney disease in type 2 diabetics, increase kidney function and stave off dialysis.
The UAB Callahan Eye Hospital says leave the fireworks alone this summer, but here are some safety tips if you just can’t resist.
Free time in the summer shouldn't be spent on the couch.
There are physiological reasons why pregnant women feel the heat more than others; the key, for comfort and safety, is to keep cool.
With the acquisition, UAB takes a significant step toward making sophisticated cell therapy a part of patient care.
A common combination screen proved no more effective than non-screening, but scientists are finding new ways to prevent and treat the disease.
A look at the part UAB researchers and physicians have played in combating the deadly disease, and what is to come.
UAB research reveals a better way to protect newborns from cytomegalovirus, often passed to them from their mothers.
UAB and Specialists on Call are working together to introduce telemedicine for stroke care in community hospitals throughout Alabama.
One fifth of people with HIV in the U.S. don’t know they are infected; UAB Hospital joins a national effort to decrease the spread of HIV.
The risk factors for stroke in the South also may be responsible for cognitive decline.