With an economic impact now exceeding $7.15 billion, according to Tripp Umbach, Alabama’s largest single employer’s influence on the state’s economy has grown by more than 50 percent since the last study.

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.

UAB research suggests EEG headsets, growing in popularity among consumers, need better security.

The goal is to avoid unnecessary surgery and reduce the number of biopsies of benign nodules and cancers that are unlikely to cause harm.

A 90-ton machine called a cyclotron will accelerate protons to very high speeds to impact human tumors.

Combining two high-powered imaging techniques into a single scanner allows UAB to acquire and study PET and MRI data simultaneously, enabling new opportunities for diagnostic imaging of cancer, the brain and heart.

Mild to moderate muscle and nerve strain provokes symptom flares in individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome.

Among black men, those with a high degree of West African genetic ancestry have less abdominal fat than those with a lower degree.

UAB researcher Sarah Parcak, Ph.D., has already shown the world how to find ancient sites from space. Now her graduate student is using remote sensing data to find a different kind of hidden treasure: uranium.

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

Cortisol levels that indicate increased stress response are higher in adolescents with sleep problems.

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.

A multisite study led by UAB has found the first biomarker for the onset of seizures in infants with tuberous sclerosis.

Wrong shipment of mice led to estrogen breakthrough in trauma survival.

UAB researchers collaborated on a study showing a blood test for chlamydia might be valuable in screening infertile women for pregnancy outcomes.

UAB’s Campaign for UAB has raised more than $617 million toward its $1 billion goal in the university’s largest-ever and most comprehensive philanthropic campaign.

Lower blood pressure target of 120 mm Hg greatly reduces cardiovascular complications and deaths in older adults.

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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.

Low diastolic blood pressure is a risk factor for new-onset heart failure in older adults. UAB cardiologist Jason Guichard explains why that might be, the causes of low diastolic pressure and how to deal with it.

New research from UAB suggests not all strep throat is really strep throat, and attention must be paid to another bacterium that packs a nasty wallop.

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

A one-year, 20 percent increase in research grants elevates UAB to No. 10 among public universities receiving National Institutes of Health funding.

The eye is a window to the brain; scientists discover early signs of dementia in changes to neurons in the eye’s retina.

UAB nutrition scientists launch an intriguing study of inflammation, obesity and infertility in African elephants in U.S. zoos, a study that may have an impact on the survival of the species.

Growing a garden helps cancer survivors eat better, but the benefits extend beyond the harvest, UAB study reveals.

The partnership combines genomics expertise with leadership in research and clinical medicine to speed efforts to deliver personalized therapies and cures.

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.

UAB researchers have created a blood test that determines a bioenergetic index, which could become an important method of measuring mitochondrial health in patients with chronic disease.