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UAB experts provide tips for freshman students transitioning to college and how they can adjust to their new lives on campus.

UAB researchers have discovered a new way to treat melanoma by targeting CDC7 with EZH2 or BRPF1/2/3 inhibitors.

Noninvasive ventilation is possible in infants at limits of viability. But unlike in slightly older preterm infants, noninvasive ventilation did not show an advantage in infants of 22 weeks-0 days to 23 weeks-6 days gestational age.

The NIH grant will advance efforts to reduce the gap between research and care of sickle cell disease.

UAB Athletics urges fans to be seen in green, purchase tickets in advance, and participate in the pre-game activities to make the best of their game day experience.

The Tuscaloosa clinic is UAB Callahan Eye’s 18th clinic location in Alabama.

Social media has been a useful tool to inform a community about research studies that are exempt from informed consent protocols.

Zhang wins $11.2 million NIH PPG grant to improve heart attack recovery through growth of new heart muscle cells.

Lizzy Davis, Ph.D., shares tips for healthy eating for college students living in residence halls.

The deciphering of a new signaling cascade sheds light on how mutations in metabolism cause normal cells to become cancerous.

Eric Jack, Ph.D., dean of the UAB Collat School of Business, has announced his retirement as dean, pending selection of his successor.

Results published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease show patients with one cancer diagnosis were less likely to develop dementia and had an overall slower cognitive decline than patients with no history of cancer.

Prices are going up, and — more than ever — Americans are feeling a pinch in their wallets. What causes inflation, and where do we go from here?

A novel activity against hypothiocyanite has been found for an E. coli enzyme and homologs enzymes in Streptococcus, Staphylococcus and Bacteroides species, with implications for diseases like cystic fibrosis and inflammatory bowel disease.

Emergency department workers were the first line of defense against COVID, but their risk of infection was higher when they were not at work in their hospitals.

Implementing a consistent and simple routine can help with a smooth transition into a new school year and alleviate stress and anxiety in children and adolescents.

An internal decapitation is rare but not unheard of, and it takes a team to help a patient recover.

The researchers found that ARID1A-deficient bladder cancers are sensitive to combination therapies with the EZH2 inhibitor and inhibitors of PI3K, in a synergistic manner.

An aneurysm is a bulge in a blood vessel caused by a weakness in the blood vessel wall, resulting in an increase of pressure in a small area and causing the vessel to balloon.

Women who have never smoked have smaller lung airways than men do, leading to higher risk for COPD.

Car seats are documented to reduce injuries and deaths in children but are effective only if installed and used properly.

Tips on how to successfully transition a child with disabilities from summer to fall schedules.

The first known U.S. study evaluates the mental health of practicing dentists and dental hygienists during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The new clinic targets prevention and early intervention, providing a brief, stepped care option to patients at risk for, or with, mild to moderate psychiatric and chronic health conditions.

One UAB patient uses her transformational story to spread awareness of scleroderma.

UAB Hospital re-verified as a Level I Trauma Center, marking 23 years of holding that designation.

U.S. News & World report named UAB Hospital as the best hospital in Alabama.

The Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences, known as the BCVS, is one of the largest councils at the American Heart Association, and it is one of the largest organizations in cardiovascular sciences globally, with more than 4,700 members.

UAB rheumatologists will begin seeing patients at the UAB Hoover Primary Care clinic in July 2022.

UAB has the first program in the United States to offer uterus transplantation outside of a clinical research trial and is one of very few centers in the world accepting new patients.