School of public health

A UAB-led study shows that, for older patients, carotid artery surgery is safer than stenting.

With more than 162,000 square feet, the new UAB Hill Student Center is the living room of the university and provides places for students to congregate, eat and study, making it their home away from home.

Stylish but dangerous? UAB study looks at injuries caused by wearing high-heeled shoes.

UAB Research Administration carefully invests to keep investigators competitive in an era of tight grant funding.

The importance of preventing hypertension is reinforced by a study showing anti-hypertension medicines can increase stroke risk by 248 percent, according to new UAB School of Public Health research published in the journal Stroke.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Campaign for UAB: Give Something, Change Everything caps off 2014 with record-breaking December.

Previous research has found an association between not eating breakfast and obesity; but no large, randomized controlled trials had sought to find causation until now.

Previous data has shown that areas of the south — specifically Mississippi and Alabama – are the fattest in the U.S. But new data from the REGARDS study proves this wrong.

New research from the ongoing CREST trial finds gender plays role in stroke-prevention procedures.