When UAB employee Jamie Smith collapsed one morning while she was at work, UAB employees from multiple specialties stepped in to help save her life.

AFib is expected to affect 40 million people worldwide and can be fatal if not treated. UAB experts provide tips on symptoms, risk factors and management of this condition.

Indirect benefits could include how to lessen rejection of transplanted organs and damage to the transplanted tissue.

A UAB infectious diseases physician breaks down what you need to know about flu, RSV and COVID as people navigate colder months and have exposure to these viruses.

This advance should facilitate atherosclerosis drug discovery and development.

As one of only five universities selected, UAB joins the NIH’s first major program to address how structural and institutional factors of persistent poverty relate to cancer.

The Healthy Happy Kids program focuses on a different health and physical activity topic each week, encouraging children to make healthier choices.

UAB experts discuss changes women should be aware of as their bodies mature and what exams they should receive during different time periods.

Everyone will experience aging, but can a person enhance their aging through simple modifications? UAB experts say yes.

Ascension St. Vincent’s Chilton is now home to a tele-critical care and tele-stroke unit.

UAB experts provide ways seniors can take and maintain control of their health in several areas of wellness.

This therapy, using sustained release of nitric oxide, may be a novel, efficient and safe way to prevent and treat multiple metabolic diseases.

Traditional markers of cardiometabolic health may be lower in Black individuals, but the development of diabetes is more common in those with African ancestry.

Benefits of the blood pressure medication verapamil include delayed disease progression, lowered insulin requirements and preservation of some beta cell function.

The study concluded that participants were hesitant to receive the COVID-19 vaccine due to mistrust, fear and lack of information.

Record $95 million Heersink lead gift to advance strategic growth and biomedical innovation.

This research suggests that a path to treat currently untreatable cases of cystic fibrosis is clearly achievable.

A study conducted by UAB investigators has outlined that deaths due to acute respiratory failure are increasing in the United States, and this disproportionately impacts Southern states and racial minorities.

Visiting the pool or lake is synonymous with summer fun, but is it safe in a pandemic?

Adrenalin-suppressing beta-blockers may delay need for valve-replacement surgery if used early in a growing cause of heart disease.