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New research suggests delaying the onset of high blood pressure may lower the risk of a stroke. The study's lead author, Dr. George Howard, an emeritus distinguished professor of biostatistics at UAB, discusses the importance of blood pressure treatment.

Alabamians are being offered support and resources for mental health as winter moves in and days grow shorter, and the temperatures drop. Seasonal affective disorder symptoms start in the late fall or early winter and go away during the spring and summer.

It's Halloween, and sugary foods are front and center at holiday parties and trick-or-treating. With candy being handed out, health experts weigh in on how much sugar is too much sugar.

The City of Birmingham, along with the Birmingham Region Health Partnership, is launching the Good Jobs Birmingham Healthcare recruitment campaign for jobseekers. The community-focused jobs initiative designed to build a pipeline of skilled healthcare and digital health professionals.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is giving the opportunity to connect with Veterans Affairs this week. The college is holding its Veterans Expo from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 16. Participants can access a wide range of resources and services from UAB Veterans Services and more than 50 other vendors dedicated to serving veterans and their families.

A jury says a public Alabama university and an employee should pay millions in penalties in a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by an Iranian-born cancer researcher. The jury reached the decision against the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Six families, who had loved ones die in the state prison system, have filed lawsuits against the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections and others, saying their family members' bodies were returned to them missing internal organs after undergoing state-ordered autopsies. The families crowded into a Montgomery courtroom Tuesday for a brief status conference in the consolidated litigation.

The three University of Alabama System campuses have shuttered diversity, equity and inclusion offices_ and shifted staff and functions to new programs. The moves were taken to comply with a new Republican-backed state law that seeks to ban so-called DEI programs on public college campuses in Alabama.

The families of Alabama prison inmates have filed lawsuits alleging that organs were harvested from the bodies of dead inmates, often against the wishes of relatives. CNN and the Courthouse News Service report Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm and the University of Alabama Birmingham are named in the suits.

Participants are being invited to run to support student scholarships during the University of Alabama at Birmingham National Alumni Society’s 18th annual Scholarship Run. The event is set to start at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 20.