In 2011, Jane Comer—activist, entrepreneur, and proud grandmother—began to experience tremors in her hands. On the advice of her friend, Comer made an appointment with UAB Medicine and received a stunning diagnosis: Parkinson’s disease.

If you have ever wondered about the return on investment from a gift to research, you should meet Talene Yacoubian, M.D., Ph.D.

The first endowed chair in the UAB School of Public Health may help answer a question being asked across America: What is the best way to allocate scarce resources to improve our health and well-being?

Faculty researchers at the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center are breaking new ground in understanding diabetes causes and mechanisms.

Simply put, endowments are the key to attracting and keeping top faculty, says UAB President Ray L. Watts, M.D. Read a conversation with Watts that gives insight to why endowments are crucial.

Precision medicine is personal—especially for Matt Might, Ph.D., director of the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute at UAB.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received a $3.6 million pledge from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama. The donation will support scholarships for students in the UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, School of Nursing and School of Dentistry.

It is my honor to thank you for the generosity you’ve shown our university—and the people of Alabama—through your gifts to The Campaign for UAB.

The United States’ mental health crisis—marked by increasing rates of depression and suicide among youth, serious mental illness among adults, and substance use disorder among all ages and demographics—costs Americans an estimated $282 billion every year, according to a recent Yale University study.

Since its launch in late 2019, Live HealthSmart Alabama (LHSA), the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s holistic initiative to improve health outcomes in Alabama, has emphasized collaboration and sustainability on the path to making good health simple.

From childhood, Sen. Luther J. Strange knew he was in good hands with the care he received from UAB’s surgeons.

When Chelsey LaRussa Heslop was just five years old, she received a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis. Her entire family–the LaRussa family–was taken by surprise but met the diagnosis head on.

As part of its Community Impact and Innovation grant program, retail tech company Shipt has awarded UAB’s Live HealthSmart Alabama (LHSA) initiative a $20,000 microgrant to help expand its Live HealthSmart Mobile Market to 10 additional underserved communities, giving them access to fresh, affordable staple foods and produce.

Birmingham’s Coca-Cola Bottling Company UNITED, Inc. gave $250,000 to UAB’s Live HealthSmart Alabama (LHSA) initiative this month, a gift that will be used to create Community Leadership Academies in the communities of Bush Hills, East Lake, Kingston, Titusville, Central City, Druid Hills, Evergreen, Fountain Heights and Norwood.

Sheila Benson is a founder. She’s a CEO. An entrepreneur. A leader. The company she founded in 1994, Employment Screening Services (ESS), grew to become the third largest background screening company in the nation—right out of Birmingham, Ala.

Cain, now cancer-free, wants others to receive the same level of compassionate care she did during her time of need.

Here’s how a group of donors banded together to support underrepresented students in engineering.

The UAB Advancement team has accomplished great things over the years, including raising more than $1 billion in The Campaign for UAB, a 10-year fundraising effort that wrapped up in 2018.

On his 49th birthday, Dwayne Chatoney was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. He received treatment at a hospital near his home in Lake Charles, Louisiana. But nine months later, the cancer returned, this time at stage 4. And this time, the hospital told him there was nothing they could do.

Ten years ago, an investment in the future of UAB began shaping the future of patient care.

Individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) face troubling health disparities. UAB faculty, staff, researchers, community members, and allies are rallying support for an endowed chair for LGBTQ health studies in the School of Public Health.