COPD exacerbations, especially those severe enough to result in hospitalization, are associated with prolonged effects on quality of life and accelerate lung function decline.
To sustain its world-class research program, the Eyesight Foundation of Alabama, the International Retinal Research Foundation and UAB have made a generous $15 million philanthropic commitment to the department’s future.
A new discipline sits at the intersection of neuroscience and engineering, where lessons learned from circuits, networks and chips are combined with the latest findings on brain circuitry.
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.
Groundbreaking research from UAB shows that out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of years lost and years lived with a disability due to a disease.
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.
Theoretical and computational physicists at UAB helped identify a new state of matter to impact quantum computing, information storage and communication.
Masked hypertension occurs when people have normal blood pressure readings at the doctor’s office, but high blood pressure when measured outside of a clinical setting.
Researchers at UAB will investigate atomic beryllium as a new candidate to develop a next generation atomic clock and produce an ultracold neutral plasma for novel low-temperature plasma physics investigations.
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