Displaying items by tag: department of medicine
One UAB experts says the roles of screenings, warning signs and a healthy lifestyle are all keys to cancer prevention.
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After a loved one receives a breast cancer diagnosis or surgery, it is important for caregivers and support partners to know how they can best help the patient during the difficult time.
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The academy provides a forum where knowledge and skills are developed and refined to support community leaders as they conduct planning and improvement projects, balance needs and resources, and secure funding that ignites change.
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Analysis of a survey of 18,041 people in rural KwaZulu-Natal revealed a discrepancy between the ability of the South African health system to respond to the health needs of people with communicable diseases and the health needs of people with non-communicable diseases.
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The Blazer Bridge Fund is intended to identify and assist in the development of promising ideas, discoveries, innovations and/or technologies from UAB faculty and staff that have commercial potential.
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- harbert institute for innovation and entrepreneurship
- school of education
- school of engineering
- school of medicine
- department of otolaryngology
- department of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine
- department of microbiology
- department of medicine
- division of hematology and oncology
- division of pulmonary allergy and critical care medicine
- division of gerontology geriatrics and palliative care
Lung-resident memory B cells produced during influenza are long-living immune cells that migrate to the lungs from draining lymph nodes and lie in wait as early responders that can quickly react to future infections. They are key sentinels against subsequent viral variants.
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UAB researchers make a case for utilizing telehealth technologies in the care of injured rural patients stating that teletrauma can improve access to trauma care for rural patients.
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Since 1985, the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study has examined the factors that contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease to better understand the natural history of cardiovascular disease over the adult life course.
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These results add an additional, mechanistic aspect to further explain how the decades-old blood pressure medication verapamil can preserve beta cell function in Type 1 diabetes patients by affecting the hormone insulin-like growth factor 1.
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The study, funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, will compare two pathways of post-fracture patient care.
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Some PD-1+CXCR5+CD4+ T cells will become germinal center-Tfh cells that are essential for B cells to become high-affinity antibody-producing cells. Others do not take that path, instead becoming memory T cells.
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$46 million awarded by NIH to UAB and partners allows researchers to continue following participants enrolled in the national Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study.
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The newly introduced kidney function equation has value in predicting heart failure comparable to the old equation but may reduce racial disparities by improving access to heart failure therapy among Black heart failure patients.
Today the National Institutes of Health has announced that UAB’s own Jeanne Marrazzo, M.D., has been selected to succeed Anthony Fauci, M.D., as the next director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) this fall.
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IN8bio has opened a new Birmingham facility, a 10,000-square-foot advanced research and development laboratory in the Martin Biscuit Building at Pepper Place.
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As one of only five universities selected, UAB joins the NIH’s first major program to address how structural and institutional factors of persistent poverty relate to cancer.
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The baby boy, born in late May 2023, is the first baby born from a uterus transplant outside of a clinical trial and UAB’s first baby from its uterus transplant program.
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- university of alabama system
- uab medicine
- school of medicine
- transplantation
- comprehensive transplant institute
- department of surgery
- division of transplantation
- department of obstetrics and gynecology
- division of gynecologic oncology
- division of maternal fetal medicine
- division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility
- department of radiology
- department of pathology
- department of medicine
- division of infectious diseases
- department of pediatrics
- womens history
The future has much potential as the REACH Up and Out program hopes to continue to make an impact on the lives of Black women in the Deep South.
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