Displaying items by tag: school of public health

Olivia Affuso, Ph.D., was taken to the hospital after being stung more than 50 times by the bees.
These findings suggest that large geographic treatment disparities in high-intensity statin use after a heart attack are poorly understood and require further research and intervention.
Measuring blood pressure at home will ensure doctors are treating people who need to be treated for high blood pressure and are not starting patients on medication who may not have hypertension.
“Attending the World Congress on Undergraduate Research … was the highlight of my college career.” – Saakshi Thukral
The RURAL Study will allow researchers to learn what causes the high burden of heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders in Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi. 
UAB received $18 million from the National Institutes of Health to fund a counterterrorism research center on chemical weapons.
Stephen Mennemeyer, Ph.D., received the Mental Health Policy and Economics Research Award from the International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics.
A UAB School of Public Health professor was recently honored for her contributions in epidemiology.
The health officer for the Jefferson County Department of Health will present the annual State of Health in Jefferson County Address on April 2 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
According to the study, novel psychedelic use is rare, and the majority of people who reported using novel psychedelics were white men who were of college age or had recently graduated from college.
A recent study found that, while several interventions to improve the use of cholesterol-lowering medications have been implemented in the last decade, the percentage of adults taking statins regularly still remains low.
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