Displaying items by tag: department of pediatrics
Parents should be mindful that pressures and expectations they have for their children in sports can turn a fun activity into one that induces stress.
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Blazer Bridge Fund provides financial support to innovative ideas and inventions by the UAB community, encouraging advanced discovery.
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UAB experts say that, by learning the symptoms of SCA and how to respond, one could save a life in an emergent situation.
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This live biotherapeutic product, tested in mouse models, shows promise in addressing common pathways of lung disease progression.
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UAB researchers are combining behavioral change theories, telemedicine and extended reality as they work to improve the physical and mental health of children with disabilities.
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A correlation was found between the social distancing index, a measure of overall social distancing behaviors observed, and higher rates of neonatal and early neonatal mortality, as well as preterm birth, when assessed with a lag period. Results were published today in JAMA Network Open.
When discussing serious medical topics with children, a UAB psychologist says it is important to keep it simple: use language they understand and let them guide the discussion.
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This devastating neurodevelopmental disorder has no currently approved treatments.
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As temperatures heat up, the risk of contracting a heat-related illness increases. Experts at UAB discuss the best ways to stay safe this summer.
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Students enrolled in the UAB Department of Pediatrics Mini Medical School are immersed in hands-on learning about the wide variety of career opportunities in the health care field.
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The annual race will be held Saturday, May 18, at Railroad Park. A virtual option will be offered this year.
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The award recognizes those in the medical community who have made monumental contributions to cancer prevention, control research and practice.
Cooper recently won the Albert Lasker Award, known as “America’s Nobel Prize,” given to the living person considered to have made the greatest contribution to medical science.
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At 15 months old, Brooke Miley Lillie received a heart transplant. At 19, she received a kidney. At 27, she defied the odds and delivered her first daughter at UAB Hospital.
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A UAB infectious diseases physician breaks down what you need to know about flu, RSV and COVID as people navigate colder months and have exposure to these viruses.
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UAB Medicine hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to commemorate the new NICU Bookworms vending machine. United States Representative Terri A. Sewell (AL-07) joined the ceremony and read to infants in the UAB RNICU and Children’s of Alabama NICU.
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While it has long been thought that the most direct health effect linked to the sanitation crisis in the Black Belt was due to soil-transmitted hookworm, a study led by UAB found no evidence of transmission.
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Vivek Lal, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UAB Heersink School of Medicine and the founder of both ResBiotic Nutrition and Alveolus Bio, was given the 2023 Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship.
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Researchers have identified a gut-lung axis driven by intestinal antimicrobial peptide expression and mediated by the intestinal microbiota that is linked to lung injury in newborns.
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The UAB Neonatal Helping Hands program provides volunteers the opportunity to hold, rock, talk, sing and read to infants in the RNICU and CCN. The program, which was paused in 2020 due to COVID, has relaunched and is accepting volunteer applications.
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