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The Freedom Exhibition: Two Countries One Struggle, is one of three exhibitions currently on display at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts.
Use of a risk characterization approach served as an indirect way to contextualize the safety profile of Xeljanz, a Janus kinase inhibitor, in patients with rheumatoid arthritis vs. the safety profile of tumor necrosis factor-alpha inhibitors, according to research.
For a large number of participants in these "open-label" placebo trials, knowing that their "treatment" is an inert pill doesn't stop them from feeling relief.
Ten weeks of intensive reading intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder was enough to strengthen the activity of loosely connected areas of their brains that work together to comprehend reading, researchers have found.
At the University of Alabama at Birmingham Alzheimer's Risk Assessment and Intervention Program, if you are between 45 and 65 you can get an assessment and walk away with a numerical estimate of your chances for developing dementia within the next 20 years.
Even if you're a decade or two shy of the big 5-0, chances are your feet have seen more than their fair share of abuse — especially if you wear high heels on a regular basis.
New research conducted at UAB may stave off the emergence of treatment-resistant gonorrhea and add another weapon to the arsenal for treating the sexually-transmitted infection.
An experimental drug that mimics a hunger-signalling hormone can protect memory in mice with Alzheimer’s disease, scientists have found.
David Becker, a health economist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said Medicare data can help spot possible fraud by comparing payments among different health care providers.
Last year, alprazolam was found in 29 percent of DUI cases, compared to 23 percent for marijuana. The percentage of DUI cases caused by alprazolam has held steady for the past three years, according to the data.
More than 123,300 heel-related injuries were treated in emergency rooms in the United States from 2002 to 2012, with the rate doubling during that 10-year span, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Foot and Ankle Injuries by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
A series of fascinating studies showed that many people respond positively to placebo pills — even when they are told that the pills don't have any active ingredients. Researchers are now testing these "open-label" placebos for the first time among cancer survivors.
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that long-term administration of a drug that is similar to the hormone ghrelin protected Alzheimer’s disease-model mice from memory deterioration, despite a high-glycemic-index (GI) diet.
Parent-teen contracts are a useful way to set rules about what is allowed/not allowed with regard to driving.
One of the hottest issues in State Houses this year was Common Core, national math and language arts standards released in 2010 and adopted by most states.
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that long-term administration of a drug that mimics the hormone ghrelin protected Alzheimer's disease-model mice from memory deterioration, despite a high-glycemic-index (GI) diet.
More than 30,000 Americans commit suicide each year, and a new grant awarded to the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is funding a study to find out what pushes someone to take their own life.
The current method of diagnosing bacterial meningitis isn't always accurate and rarely comfortable for the patient, said Scott Barnum, professor within UAB's Department of Micobiology and lead researcher for the project.
Only 14.3 percent of men and 29.9 percent of women reported that they regularly use sunscreen on both their face and other exposed skin.
There seems to be a genetic predisposition for psoriasis in some people. Along the way, something triggers the predisposition. It can be an illness, a medication, drinking alcohol or smoking. Smoking particularly seems to be associated with greater difficulty in clearing psoriasis lesions. Stress seems to trigger flares.
"Severe acute exacerbations of IPF are medically untreatable and often fatal within days," said Steve Duncan, M.D., professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.