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Live HealthSmart Alabama is expanding its footprint throughout the Birmingham area and will extend its model beyond Birmingham to other Alabama communities.
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Monoclonal antibody infusion is effective, but UAB doctors say getting the COVID-19 vaccine is the best way to prevent someone from being hospitalized because of COVID-19.
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A Bcl-2 inhibitor that has FDA approval for treatment of several leukemias reversed lung fibrosis in a bleomycin mouse model.
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The largest such survey ever conducted, led by Stefan Kertesz, M.D., shows that weather, rents and personal factors contribute to unsheltered homelessness.
The second in a series of panel discussions will provide up-to-date information on COVID-19 from UAB experts.
Studies conducted in America and around the world definitively show that masks are an effective tool in reducing the rate of injection of COVID-19.
“These people are the sickest of the sick.” Hear from one of the nurses helping COVID patients inside UAB Hospital.
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The drug Vismodegib, tested in a breast cancer model, is an inhibitor of hedgehog signaling, a form of cell communication manipulated by the tumor microenvironment.
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Nationally renowned expert in COPD Mark Dransfield, M.D., has been the medical director of the UAB Lung Health Center since 2009.
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Understanding how reductive stress is controlled may help personalize treatment of heart failure patients, leading to better outcomes.
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Pediatric infectious diseases expert discusses the Centers for Disease Control’s in-person learning guidelines for the 2021 school year.
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Uncontrolled hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a major health concern in underserved communities.
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Intranasal vaccination is needle-free and elicits immunity at the site of infection, the respiratory tract.
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The semiregular series of panel discussions will provide up-to-date information on COVID-19.
This research suggests that a path to treat currently untreatable cases of cystic fibrosis is clearly achievable.
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Many Americans say they want to “make sure the shot is safe” before getting vaccinated. That data is already in, and it is overwhelming.
This study is the latest research to investigate the association between cardiovascular disease and diet — which foods have a positive versus negative impact on cardiovascular disease risk.
Ten UAB experts, with specialties ranging from public health to infectious diseases, to pediatrics, will serve as investigators for the new Alabama Regional Center for Infection Prevention and Control.
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Kumar and Locke will be positioned to help guide the national discussion on transplantation policies.
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