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Frank Cuervo will oversee development, marketing, licensing, communications, video services, ticketing operations and sales, as well as UAB’s multimedia relationship with IMG.
"For the vast majority of us, the lion represents something that is amazing, something that is powerful, the king of the jungle," said Josh Klapow, a clinical psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The play value of parks, playgrounds and open play spaces is higher in affluent communities than in nonaffluent communities, according to research from occupational therapy students in the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions.
From Nature.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a common form of inflammatory arthritis affecting synovial joints, has a variable clinical expression ranging from mild disease to severe joint destruction
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a common form of inflammatory arthritis affecting synovial joints, has a variable clinical expression ranging from mild disease to severe joint destruction
Large variations in blood pressure readings from one doctor’s appointment to another are associated with cardiovascular disease and death, a new study has found.
Colleges have always had crime: "violence and vandalism and all the various things that happen when you put a bunch of relatively young people together in a relatively small space," said John J. Sloan III, a professor of criminology and sociology at the University of Alabama Birmingham who studies campus crime.
Do you roam city sidewalks with your nose buried in your phone, oblivious to what's going on around you? If so, you may want to look up and start paying attention.
ROSA offers patients, and their physicians, a unique advantage over traditional surgical approaches: It can do the job with a lot of little holes as opposed to one very large opening.
From Becker's Hospital Review
UAB is listed as the third largest hospital in America by number of beds.
UAB is listed as the third largest hospital in America by number of beds.
With the 2011 Alabama tornado catastrophe still lingering in the minds of many, University of Alabama at Birmingham research has led to the creation of new technology designed to help save lives in a natural disaster.
The therapy is intended for children who can read aloud well but struggle to understand the meaning of the text.
ipton plans to continue SRI’s work in drug development, the defense world and clean energy, while also increasing collaboration with UAB and boosting commercialization efforts from the research that takes place at the institute.
As UAB football supporters revel in the eventual return of the sports program, George Munchus is flooded with memories from the team's earliest days.
Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. One in three seniors will die with it. Yet almost half of the people with Alzheimer's and their caregivers never know they have it.
The UAB panels were approved by the National Storm Shelter Association to hold up against an EF5 tornado.
The latest award is one of several grants the organization has presented to Dr. Gregory Friedman, an oncologist who treats brain tumor patients at Children's of Alabama.
The syndrome is called thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, or TTP, and treatment involves exchanging three to seven liters of plasma each day, at a cost of $10,000 a day. This costly care may continue for several weeks or months.
From Christian Science Monitor
Carbon dioxide emissions do more than just trap heat in the atmosphere; CO2 also lowers the pH of the seawater, making it more acidic. Now, research suggests that this acidification could drastically transform the entire ocean food chain.
Carbon dioxide emissions do more than just trap heat in the atmosphere; CO2 also lowers the pH of the seawater, making it more acidic. Now, research suggests that this acidification could drastically transform the entire ocean food chain.
The Roberston-Johnson home in Birmingham's Southside, pictured here in 2011, houses ArtPlay, an arts education initiative of UAB's Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. The Queen Anne Victorian home was built in 1896.
Engineers at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) have developed building panels they believe will make homes in the path of tornadoes safer and reduce deaths and injuries.
Athletic director Mark Ingram said the NCAA informed UAB that football play can resume at the Football Bowl Subdivision level beginning with the 2017 season. UAB would be eligible for postseason bowl competition, should it meet qualifying standards, as well as Conference USA championships.