Displaying items by tag: division of preventive medicine
While friends or family members may feel helpless if someone they know suffers from addiction, one UAB physician says hope can start at home.
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Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Parks Rx works to connect patients to more than 130 parks in Birmingham and surrounding communities where they can be more active.
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A new study from UAB describes the impact of a peer coach intervention on hospitalizations and emergency room visits for individuals with diabetes and depression.
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Harlem in the ’Ham will benefit Healthy Happy Kids, the MHRC’s childhood obesity intervention.
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UAB researchers will implement a new home-intervention model to teach mothers and children to form healthy habits right in the comfort of their homes.
As parents check off their children’s back-to-school needs, vaccinations should be top of the list.
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Published in Addiction, a new paper lays out some of the factors that lead policymakers to look for easy answers to complex problems related to opioid addiction.
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A UAB researcher is heading to Cameroon to study the effects and safety of antibiotics on pregnant women at risk of contracting malaria.
Cora Lewis, M.D., who has focused her research on the epidemiology of chronic diseases, became chair April 1.
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The UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Rotary Clubs of Birmingham and Colombo lead the way in eliminating cervical cancer as a public health problem in Sri Lanka.
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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.
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The Health Disparities Research Symposium highlights the work of undergraduate, graduate, faculty and community investigators.
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Of the 15 million people living with cancer in the United States in 2016, 62 percent were 65 years or older.
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A national task force suggests hormone therapy does not help with chronic conditions.
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Community members and academic investigators have teamed up to publish research in Ethnicity & Disease.
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Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, Ph.D., says the findings of her research emphasize the importance of considering social factors when examining the impact of neighborhood on physical activity.
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A new study suggests complex solutions to gun-related deaths and goals to decrease rates based on the type of death.
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The center is funded by a $7 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
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CHAAMPS exists to develop, implement and evaluate interventions to improve African-American men’s health through research, outreach and training.
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Fouad has worked to establish the validity of health disparities as a national scientific research priority.
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