School of medicine

Airway fractal dimension gives added prognostic information over traditional CT scan measures in COPD.

Spending time outdoors may seem as sweet as honey, but a UAB pediatrician says sting allergies can bee a real buzzkill if you are not careful.

Sensory processing difficulties, which affect one in six people, can make public spaces a nightmare and lead to traumatic meltdowns. A UAB expert teaches venues around the world how to help rather than hurt. Here’s her advice. 

Times Higher Education’s university rankings are among the world’s most comprehensive, balanced and trusted.

This new, non-invasive way to deliver radiation has helped one Alabama man complete optometry school and launch his new career.

The International Symbol of Access has been criticized for its inadequate representation of disability diversity, poorly representing universal design of space and products.

Vinay Narasimha Krishna, M.D., received one of 15 KidneyX Redesign Dialysis prizes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the American Society of Nephrology.

Fouad’s winning proposal is a comprehensive approach to fixing Alabama’s complex health problems and includes 90 partners on her team from government, business, education and more.

The clinic is an initiative of Building Healthy Communities, a project of the UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center

A new discipline sits at the intersection of neuroscience and engineering, where lessons learned from circuits, networks and chips are combined with the latest findings on brain circuitry.

NIH research funding to the UAB School of Medicine has increased by more than $100 million in the past five years, a barometer of the school’s success.

A new screening tool developed at UAB has been shown to be an effective aid in determining the severity of cognitive issues.

Groundbreaking research from UAB shows that out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of years lost and years lived with a disability due to a disease. 

Patients at UAB now have access to state-of-the-art robotic surgery technology.

Researchers found that regular tenofovir gel users were associated with reduced risk of HSV-2 infection.

Many people experience mood and energy changes during winter months, but is that a real medical condition?

Safe and effective therapeutic agents that can treat these cancer-causing viruses are greatly needed.

More than 103,000 donors have contributed to the university’s largest-ever fundraising initiative to bolster the campaign’s priorities — programmatic support, facilities, faculty, research and innovation, athletics, and student support.

Jessica Martindale’s perfect vision was quickly tested after her infant son inadvertently scratched her cornea. Thankfully, physicians at UAB Callahan Eye Hospital were there to help.

All academic areas saw increases in grant award monies from November 2017 through October 2018 as the university continues to grow its mission.