Displaying items by tag: department of medicine
Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Parks Rx works to connect patients to more than 130 parks in Birmingham and surrounding communities where they can be more active.
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A new study from UAB describes the impact of a peer coach intervention on hospitalizations and emergency room visits for individuals with diabetes and depression.
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A new drug offers therapeutic benefit for more than 90 percent of all people with cystic fibrosis.
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Yabing Chen, Ph.D., and Ganesh Halade, Ph.D., have won 2018 “best paper” awards.
UAB researchers will implement a new home-intervention model to teach mothers and children to form healthy habits right in the comfort of their homes.
This research suggests a therapeutic approach to treating human heart failure.
The grant, received from the NIH, aims to provide a better option for patients than what is already available.
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The focus of the seventh annual symposium will be on heart failure.
In “The Overworked Shoes,” Barbie Randall tells the story of a couple whose busy lifestyle left little quality time for their family, and a strange encounter that would change their lives forever.
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The drug targets enzymes that control the immune response and spleen macrophages.
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Kirklin has been involved with the American Heart Association in various capacities for more than 20 years.
Published in Addiction, a new paper lays out some of the factors that lead policymakers to look for easy answers to complex problems related to opioid addiction.
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The five-year funding award will support the Southern All of Us Network, part of the All of Us Research Program, a nationwide research program to transform how research is conducted to advance individualized prevention, treatment and care for people of all backgrounds.
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Multivitamins and mineral supplements do not prevent heart attacks, strokes or cardiovascular death.
Significant novel findings published by UAB researchers established verapamil as a successful therapeutic approach to target loss of beta cell function caused by Type 1 diabetes.
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A gene called TXNIP was the answer, and it led to a drug called verapamil and a successful diabetes trial.
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Researchers use i2b2 data to find out if there is a link between electronic cigarettes and illicit substance abuse.
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A diabetes drug suggests potential therapy for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, based on research with human lung fibroblasts and a mouse model of lung fibrosis.
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By using an injected biomarker, researchers are able to have a more accurate reading of kidney function in a clinical setting in half the time it used to take.
Gaston served many roles in more than 30 years at UAB.