Department of medicine
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Provide care for senior loved ones with advice from a UAB expert.
UAB professor receives a $3.7 million grant to study how the genetic risk of high blood pressure affects the behavior of young and middle-aged adults.
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These new findings help simplify the treatment for patients with syphilis.
Nathan Shock Centers across the nation are funded by the National Institute on Aging to provide leadership in the pursuit of basic research into the biology of aging.
The JAMA article is potentially practice-changing by enabling a diagnosis of COPD in individuals without airflow obstruction.
Jackson says she experienced almost every symptom and complication of diabetes and CKD, and she spent two decades of her life constantly managing her condition.
Tumor therapy with immune checkpoint blockers may be improved by fine-tuning Gfi1 in CD8+ T cells.
UAB researchers report that carriers of specific genetic variants face significantly elevated risks of heart failure, cardiomyopathy and arrhythmia, underscoring the potential benefits of targeted genetic screening.
T-bet expression is required for persistence of memory B cells that have rapid differentiation potential to become antibody-producing plasma cells in response to a second infection.
It is never too late for individuals to take steps to help manage their health as they age.
The finding of TREM2 as a critical regulator of macrophage-mediated fibrosis makes it a promising therapeutic target for intervention for lung fibrotic disease.
The American Heart Association’s PREVENT CVD risk equation is designed to help predict a person’s risk of a cardiovascular event during their lifetime.
The understanding of how macrophages regulate their response to toxic particles via two independent pathways could uncover therapeutic opportunities to quell inflammation.
An NLP-informed AGI clinic is a viable approach to efficiently improve the systemwide quality of care for patients with AGIs.
UAB is a stronghold at finding patients for studies, but healthy controls were harder.
UAB’s new Lunaphore COMET multiplex immunofluorescent platform can hyperplex up to 40 antibodies on a single pathology tissue sample.
Helping children develop healthy habits at a young age can help lower their risk for heart disease, stroke and other major health problems later in life.
When UAB employee Jamie Smith collapsed one morning while she was at work, UAB employees from multiple specialties stepped in to help save her life.