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A study about the risks and benefits of long-term, regular aspirin use touched on issues involving multiple clinical and research disciplines.
If your suspect your identity has been stolen, you should call your local police, according to Gary Warner, the director of the Computer Forensics Research Laboratory at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. "If someone has stolen your identity or has scammed you, it's likely they are targeting others as well," he said
The Harvest for Health program has several goals. Based on prior studies, the developers of Harvest for Health hypothesized that a gardening intervention would improve a patient's physical activity, quality of life, and physical functioning. The group also theorized that the process of growing fruits and vegetables would increase the patient's consumption of these foods.
Here are the 100 largest hospitals in the United States, listed by number of beds.
"It has nothing to do with how clean or dirty your home or school may be, or how clean or dirty your kids may be," D'Ann Somerall, an assistant professor at the UAB School of Nursing, said today in the release. "Affluent schools, rural schools, urban schools — anyone from any socioeconomic background can get head lice, no matter how clean their hair or home."
The outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa is frightening for many reasons. It is the largest outbreak ever, having claimed many hundreds of lives; and the deadly infectious disease can travel easily from person to person in the later stages.
“Research has shown that if you want to stick to a new habit, monitoring is one of the best ways to make a change,” says Joshua Klapow, Ph.D., clinical psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
"The strength of BCBS relies upon its network of providers across the state. Maintaining that strong provider network is critical to deterring entry and maintaining a position of dominance in the Alabama insurance market," said David J. Becker, associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham will take part in a $17 million multicenter study funded over a seven year period by the National Institutes of Health to research how certain drugs and cells used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis can help improve the long-term health of kidney transplant patients.
Efforts by The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to continue to improve amenities for a growing student population are getting another boost.
After spending three years as the senior vice president for finance and administration and COO of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Glen Allen Bolton will return to the University of Alabama at Birmingham to serve as the vice president for financial affairs and administration starting Oct. 1.
Surgeons at University of Alabama at Birmingham successfully used an alternative to open heart surgery. The noninvasive procedure is used for high risk patients. It is already being done in hospitals in Europe and Canada but has yet to gain FDA approval. However, a clinical trial is underway in the United States.
Mice that begin expressing a mutant version of a protein called neurexin at 2 weeks of age develop autism-like behaviors that researchers can erase weeks or months later. The report, published 24 July in Cell Reports, suggests that it may be possible to treat autism symptoms even in adulthood.
With one Ebola patient here in the United States – the first time an infected Ebola victim has been on American soil – and another Ebola patient soon to arrive in Atlanta, some people are understandably concerned about containing a virus that kills 9 of 10 people contracting it.
It's time to send the kids back to school, and experts at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) offer tips to help both students and parents get the year off to a good start.
Harvest for Health, conducted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is a yearlong study that will pair cancer survivors over the age of 60 in the Montgomery area with local master gardeners to see if gardening will improve the survivor’s diet and health, as well as their physical fitness and functioning.
The first of the infected medical missionaries will be flown into Atlanta to begin treatment Saturday, but bringing someone with the Ebola virus into the States has created an internet storm of concerns - could the virus be spread in the U.S.? And how is it spread? A UAB physician has been studying the virus and answers our questions.
Mamie Martin is participating in the UAB study Harvest for Health, which pairs cancer survivors with master gardeners from the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. The master gardeners help the cancer survivors grow vegetable gardens. The purpose is to see if a cancer survivor eats better with fresh vegetables at their disposal and if they see improvement in physical function and overall health as they tend to their garden.
New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases shows consuming a "Southern-style" diet -- consisting of processed meats, fried foods and sugar-sweetened beverages -- results in higher risk of death in those with chronic kidney disease.
From The Washington Post
Not all texting bans are alike, of course. But ones aimed at teens and that allow primary enforcement of the law — i.e. they don’t require officers to have another reason for the traffic stop — had the most dramatic effect, a team of researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health found in a study published in the August American Journal of Public Health.
Not all texting bans are alike, of course. But ones aimed at teens and that allow primary enforcement of the law — i.e. they don’t require officers to have another reason for the traffic stop — had the most dramatic effect, a team of researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health found in a study published in the August American Journal of Public Health.
Free computational tools available on the Web can simplify a few of the steps involved in developing an SRM/MRM assay. Once developed, an assay will need to be further refined and validated by the researcher.