Memory Motivation: Relative’s Struggle Inspires Researcher
A nursing professor’s intervention program is designed to improve seniors’ memories for everyday events like taking medications and paying bills.
Health & Medicine
A Slimmer Tomorrow
The University of Alabama takes an interdisciplinary approach to combating obesity in efforts to create “A Slimmer Tomorrow.”
Shaping Safer Scans
A patented technique relying on shape manipulation of nanoparticles offers potential for safer MRIs.
Who Will Deliver My Baby?
A University of Alabama physician addressed why family physicians have stopped providing maternity care and offered suggestions on how to alleviate the problem in a recent report.
Stimulate My Brain
Two education professors at The University of Alabama hope low-current brain stimulation can be an answer for students who struggle to learn, recall or retain information.
Fat Flies Reveal Obesity Clues
Some of the lightest of creatures are helping scientists better understand the genetics behind weight gain. Dr. Laura Reed, a University of Alabama geneticist, is studying the maggots of fruit flies to better understand how specific genes cause some of the fruit flies to get fat from consuming high calorie diets, while other flies are
Borrowing for Health
There is limited research on whether families use unsecured debt to finance health care expenses. Dr. Patryk Babiarz hopes to change that.
Suspending Belief: Virtual Reality Lab to Provide Coping, Research Opportunities
The University of Alabama will soon become the third university in the country, researchers say, to have a social work virtual reality lab.
Getting Ready to Rumble, Research
It’s time for another fight inside a large, second floor lab within The University of Alabama’s Science and Engineering Complex.
Going Viral: Surgeon, Professor Team in New Approach to Pain Treatment
A Tuscaloosa-based surgeon’s theory related to chronic pain is likely headed for a clinical trial early next year, and it’s drawing support from a University of Alabama researcher who studies how viruses replicate.