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Three UAB doctors and professors share five ways the medical community can work to address the needs of underrepresented populations as we work to understand COVID-19.
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Delays in cancer screenings due to the coronavirus could lead to thousands of cancer deaths in the coming years. O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB is vigilant in its efforts to provide uninterrupted care to patients.
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This award recognizes Robert Oster’s numerous statistical contributions to UAB faculty, staff and students.
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Dual antiplatelet therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention uses aspirin and one other drug, among several choices. But which drug is best to use?
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The study showed that 7.4 percent of veterans with a history of homelessness reported having an overdose in the past 3 years. Alcohol was the most commonly involved substance, but opioids and other drugs were common.
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This project is supported by a two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health and Office on Women’s Health.
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The Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research focuses on minority aging research with a disparities focus, particularly related to health problems more prevalent among older African Americans living in both rural and urban areas.
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The UAB Minority Health and Health Disparity Research Center is a key partner in providing free weekly health screenings and other wellness education programs, as well as evaluating the success of this Campus of Hope.
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This first-of-its-kind study aims to address this information gap by examining total net worth in conjunction with five components of wealth.
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“At the core, I don’t want anyone else to lose their father so early in their lifetime. That drove me at the beginning to do the work I do today.”
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Sowing the Seeds of Health has served 4,000 Latina women in six counties in Alabama and continues to demonstrate the need to navigate cultural differences to raise awareness about cancer detection.
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Pigford was known for his participation and leadership in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Building Healthy Communities Coalition in Kingston.
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The knowledge and will to fight the opioid epidemic from all angles is why UAB is best positioned to combat the far-reaching opioid crisis.
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Fouad’s winning proposal is a comprehensive approach to fixing Alabama’s complex health problems and includes 90 partners on her team from government, business, education and more.
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The clinic is an initiative of Building Healthy Communities, a project of the UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center
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Miller replaces interim division director Vishnu Reddy, M.D., professor in the Division of Laboratory Medicine.
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