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"Though our study suggests breakfast may not be key to weight loss, we only examined a general recommendation of eating versus skipping," says Emily Dhurandhar, assistant professor at the Department of Health Behavior at the University of Alabama Birmingham and a lead author of the study.
Efforts by the administration at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to make the campus more attractive to students will get another boost when popular Birmingham eatery Full Moon Bar-B-Que opens in the fall of 2015 in the university's new student center, which is now under construction.
Twenty Women Who Make a Difference in the Birmingham area were honored at a luncheon today at The Club. Dr. Shirley Salloway Kahn, vice president for development, alumni and external relations at The University of Alabama at Birmingham was honored.
The Amelia Center Gallery at Gulf Coast State College presents “The Helmet Project,” an exhibition of paintings and photographs of installations by Gary Chapman.
The original face of AIDS was that of a middle-class, often white, gay man living in New York or San Francisco. That picture has changed over time as people of color have become disproportionately affected by the epidemic. Today, the face of AIDS is Black or Latino, poor, often rural - and Southern.
Dr. Trygve Tollefsbol, director of the Cell Senescence Culture Facility at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said the study "provides a unique way of looking at aging not only in terms of aging of the liver but also in terms of epigenetic aging." The findings are important because a liver that ages more quickly may make a person more likely to develop cancer, Tollefsbol added.
The decision to euthanize the dog was “probably from an overabundance of caution,” says David C. Pigott, MD, professor of emergency medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB). That's because the Ebola virus only infects a few types of animals that can pass on the disease, and this excludes animals commonly kept as pets, like cats and dogs.
A recent (and totally unfortunate) study published in the New England Journal of Medicine debunked the common belief that having sex burns up to 300 calories. According to the calculations of University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers, a 154-pound man doing the deed burns about 21 calories during an average sex sesh—a mere 3.5 calories per minute.
The clinic is housed at Children's of Alabama and associated with UAB. The designation makes it part of a consortium that includes Emory University School of Medicine, the Medical University of South Carolina, the University of Florida and the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine.
Dr. Faisal Shuaib hails from Nasarawa State, studied medicine at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and was further trained at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States where he obtained a doctorate Degree in Public Health.
Melanie Mae Roberts was named Miss UAB 2015 at a pageant held Wednesday night at the Alys Stephens Center for the Performing Arts.
Dr. Catherine Hough-Telford, a fellow in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Division of Pediatric f Infectious Diseases, put it this way: Just because you got a vaccine last year "doesn't mean your immune system will necessarily remember last year," Hough-Telford said.
On Monday, the governor of Alabama swept into University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital and declared the state's hospitals were ready to handle an Ebola patient.
Researchers at the University of Alabama-Birmingham released a 2012 study stating that blacks were more likely than whites to eat a Southern diet, characterized as heavy in fried foods, processed meats and heavily sweetened beverages.
Denny's held its grand opening for "The Den" at UAB Wednesday, the first of Denny's new food concepts aimed at millennials. Denny's already has college concepts open at a few other colleges around the country - including Auburn University - but this is the first Den. It opened Aug. 23.
Prayer flags are beginning to proliferate as the 14th Dalai Lama's visit to Birmingham nears.
The UAB’s Mitochondrial Medicine Laboratory, under the direction of Victor Darley-Usmar, Ph.D., is at the forefront of establishing the bioenergetic health index (BHI) as a new universally deployed clinical test for assessing bioenergetic dysfunction especially early in disease progression before significant pathology and/or prior to the development of life-threatening conditions.
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Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have explored patterns in pediatric sports injuries in a new study published in the Journal of Athletic Training
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have explored patterns in pediatric sports injuries in a new study published in the Journal of Athletic Training
A UAB scientist will participate in a panel alongside other brain plasticity experts and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
The "Fagbug," a Volkswagen Beetle featured in the documentary film, "Fagbug Nation," will be on display at The UAB Campus Green on Wednesday from noon-3 p.m. as part of Out Week. Filmmaker Erin Davies will appear at a screening of the film on campus on Wednesday night. (Photo by Wikimedia user Jason Lawrence.)
When thinking about measures to prevent fluid overload, it’s important to remember that fluid is a drug with a therapeutic window, and that dosing rates should be individualized to the goals of therapy, the clinical scenario and the severity of illness, noted David Askenazi, MD, the director of the Pediatric and Infant Center for Acute Nephrology, Children’s of Alabama/University of Alabama at Birmingham.