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Cancer therapy puts patients at even greater risk of damage from the sun and heat.
Blueberries provide nutritious benefits and prevent cell damage that can lead to cancer.
Nine medical specialties rank among the nation’s best, three others rank among the top 25 percent and UAB is the best in the metropolitan area.
UAB Hospital has treated a patient with heat stroke and as the temperatures remain high, more patients with heat-related illnesses are expected.
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.
New research facility in South Africa will host a lab led by Adrie Steyn, Ph.D., and include an exchange of students, post-docs.
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.
There are physiological reasons why pregnant women feel the heat more than others; the key, for comfort and safety, is to keep cool.
A look at the part UAB researchers and physicians have played in combating the deadly disease, and what is to come.