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Most people refrain from calling attention to an unusual bulge in their lower abdomen. But it could be a potentially dangerous condition that needs to be discussed with your doctor right away.
Children spend several hours in a wheelchair, going through a library and out to lunch, to understand and be aware of the challenges disabled people experience every day.
UAB experts share insight on what leads a person to have suicidal thoughts or actions, and how friends and family can help.
The National Cancer Institute highlighted research from UAB that shows how the epigenetic plant-based diet in mice can prevent cancer more effectively at younger ages.
The key to preventing overhydration is to let your body tell you when you need a drink.
As parents check off their children’s back-to-school needs, vaccinations should be top of the list.
A gene mutation causes wrinkled skin and hair loss; turning off that mutation restores the mouse to normal appearance.
Significant novel findings published by UAB researchers established verapamil as a successful therapeutic approach to target loss of beta cell function caused by Type 1 diabetes.
A diabetes drug suggests potential therapy for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, based on research with human lung fibroblasts and a mouse model of lung fibrosis.
An Auburn woman who was severely burned finds pain relief from music therapy.
mediKanren, an "analytic engine" designed by UAB researchers, can sift 97 million assertions in seconds to find new treatments for patients and research avenues for scientists.
The All of Us Research Program, an effort by the NIH to build a national database for medical research, launches on May 6 at UAB and six other sites nation-wide.
Fatigue in cancer survivors is significantly reduced by placebo pill, even when it is known it is a fake pill.
Watch a bleeding-control demonstration and join in with questions live as trauma surgeons show benefits of kits in public settings.
Researchers have found the rate of hospitalization for sarcoidosis has increased, and in-hospital mortality associated with sarcoidosis has decreased.
Data suggest the United States could have a worse than average flu season. Flu season typically lasts from early October to February, but UAB experts say it is never too late to get vaccinated.
It is easy to remember steps to prevent the body from getting cold, but what can be done to protect the eyes when cold weather hits?
This more comprehensive approach may be needed to find ways to delay the progressive heart failure.
A UAB Infectious Diseases physician discusses bacteria found in food-borne illnesses and why you should wash your hands.
Low dietary potassium leads to calcified arteries and aortic stiffness, while increased dietary potassium alleviates those undesirable effects in a mouse model, suggesting dietary potassium may protect against heart disease and death from heart disease in humans.