Displaying items by tag: school of public health
The annual award is to recognize outstanding papers related to environmental health sciences and public health that meet the aims, scope and high standards of this journal.
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The paper analyzed articles published in the scientific and popular press to separate myths from evidence-supported facts when it comes to obesity.
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The Ann Dial McMillan Endowed Lectureship in Family and Child Health is a unique interdisciplinary lectureship designed to tap into and promote public health breakthroughs relevant to family and children’s health.
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Despite strokes’ being on the decline in the U.S., more women are dying from them than are men. Now the AHA and ASA have released guidance on prevention specifically for women.
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UAB health policy experts recently completed a survey of 601 Alabama residents on issues of the ACA, the Exchange and Medicaid expansion.
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REGARDS investigators have responded with a letter published in the AHA journal Circulation, saying it is premature to draw firm conclusions about potential overestimation of risk using the new risk formula.
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Politics and religion are considered unsafe topics of conversation at parties. This holiday season, experts at UAB say avoiding one other topic – weight – can help everyone be more merry and bright.
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More than 800 students will walk at the Dec. 14 UAB fall commencement ceremonies.
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UAB researchers, a National Weather Service office and the state public health department seek to design an alert system that better protects public from extreme heat.
A national group of leading scientists, including one University of Alabama at Birmingham expert, says fewer people are dying of stroke, but the mechanisms remain unknown.
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The goal of the grant is to develop a new technique based on nanomaterial sorbents that allows accurate sampling of gases and vapors at low levels for measuring workers’ exposure.
UAB offers online degree programs in accounting, education, engineering, health care management, information systems, nursing, occupational therapy, public health and more.
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UAB experts have advice on how to slow aging, and how this can help with appearance and self-esteem.
Roeder’s early work played a pivotal role developing the foundations of DNA forensic inference.
A new study from UAB researchers is one of the first to study the relationship between exercise and stroke in a large biracial cohort of men and women in the U.S.
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UAB announces co-chairs and the theme of its ambitious five-year philanthropic campaign.
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Studies in recent years had suggested that cilia regulate vital processes including growth, appetite, mood, healing and vision.
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UAB may have found a new approach to countering widespread, cholesterol-related disease in blood vessels.
Parents beware: Children’s eye injuries, often from organized sports or swimming, go up in summer.
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