Tag: obesity
UAB’s ‘Healthy Happy Kids’ Graduates Over 2,300 Birmingham Elementary Students
By Adam Pope
UAB News
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Minority Health and Health Equity Research Center and the Birmingham City Schools system celebrated the graduation of more...
UAB receives $7M grant to fund obesity-related research
By Adam Pope
UAB News
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center has been awarded a $7 million grant from the...
How UAB team eliminated some disparity between black and white women...
By Nick Patterson
The Birmingham Times
Data-driven research has for years borne out that there are diverse health conditions between different demographics—blacks and whites, for instance.
“We...
Obesity increasing among young people
Special to the Times
Obesity rising in nations rich and poor, especially in kids
The global obesity problem now affects 1 in 10 people in the...
