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Studies in recent years had suggested that cilia regulate vital processes including growth, appetite, mood, healing and vision.
Parents beware: Children’s eye injuries, often from organized sports or swimming, go up in summer.
Only 61 percent of adults with high cholesterol were aware of their diagnosis, according to the study.
Children and teens living in the Stroke Belt states are at about twice as much risk of stroke later on in life according to new findings from the REGARDS study.
New study in European Heart Journal contradicts a recent study in the same publication, suggests evidence is lacking that digoxin increases mortality as atrial fibrillation treatment.
If you exercise, eat right and don’t smoke, a history of heart disease in your family can still put you at risk — even if you are a female.
Gerald McGwin, Ph.D., is also associate director of the Department of Ophthalmology’s Clinical Research Unit.
Interested students are invited to learn more about the epidemiology curriculum.
An eye care census in Alabama highlights the need for more eye care providers in rural areas and more minority providers.
Exercise may help stave off treatment-related fatigue in cancer patients, study shows.
What you have for breakfast might help, or hurt, your body’s efforts to burn fat later in the day, say UAB researchers hoping to learn more.