Displaying items by tag: department of medicine
Researchers will train community health workers to promote tobacco cessation among young African-American men in rural Alabama with the support of UAB experts through telehealth.
Tagged under
The infiltration of macrophages into the heart is a required step on the path to heart failure in a preclinical model.
Tagged under
The Alabama Vaccine Research Clinic will be testing the efficacy of a vaccine that could help combat a rare strain of avian influenza.
The Health Disparities Research Symposium highlights the work of undergraduate, graduate, faculty and community investigators.
Tagged under
This microRNA is a biomarker for bronchopulmonary dysplasia, a disease that can lead to death or long-term disease in extremely low birth-weight infants.
Tagged under
Much like other muscles, when the heart works during the normal daytime hours, it needs a period of rest to repair itself.
Tagged under
Research shows protection against the linked heart damage and kidney dysfunction known as cardiorenal syndrome.
Members of an Air Force Special Operations Surgical Team based at UAB are awarded Bronze Stars for their actions while deployed overseas.
Tagged under
Some 70 percent of patients needing a marrow transplant do not have a fully matched donor in their family.
Tagged under
Tagged under
Tagged under
S. Louis Bridges Jr., M.D., Ph.D., will serve as vice president of the Rheumatology Research Foundation.
Tagged under
A UAB researcher investigates how lupus develops and why certain demographics are at higher risk of flare-ups.
Tagged under
UAB provides emotional, social and spiritual care beyond the pain of life-threatening illnesses and diseases to help patients have the best quality of life.
Tagged under
ECMO and autoantibody reduction through plasma exchange, experimental therapies not available everywhere, help end an Alabama woman’s five-month medical ordeal.
Tagged under
Inhibition of this microRNA might improve response to newer diabetes drugs, such as Byetta, Victoza, Trulicity, Januvia, Onglyza and Tradjenta.
CHAAMPS exists to develop, implement and evaluate interventions to improve African-American men’s health through research, outreach and training.
Tagged under
Fouad has worked to establish the validity of health disparities as a national scientific research priority.
Tagged under
