A UAB study in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows patients’ mobility while hospitalized helps maintain daily activity in older adults.
Women live longer than men. This simple statement holds a tantalizing riddle that Steven Austad, Ph.D., and Kathleen Fischer, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham explore in a perspective piece published in Cell Metabolism on June 14.
A US Fire Administration 2014 report says there are more than 2.5 million American users of the devices, and cites 25 incidents of e-cig or vape device explosions between 2009 and 2014. UAB surgeon Chandra Ellis, M.D., has operated on two patients injured by vape explosions, and treated five in clinic and offers some words of caution on the use of vape pens.
How much impact do genes have on behavioral changes? Dr. Luciano Matzkin of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) want to better understand the genetic underpinnings of ecologically relevant behaviors.
Clinical psychologist Josh Klapow, Ph.D., in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says children in particular will be at a loss in understanding, processing and coping with the myriad issues surrounding the devastating Orlando shooting.
New Living Donor Navigator Program tailored to African-Americans and a new Facebook app aim to increase access to living kidney transplants and reduce the number of patients awaiting transplant.
Poster for “Service to Man.” TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — University of Alabama theatre professor Seth Panitch recently completed a full, feature-length film that has been selected as one of 25 films to be showcased in the 20th American Black Film Festival, which begins next week. Festival judges have nominated Panitch’s film, “Service to Man,” for best screenplay, best direction and best film.
Hepatitis C testing in the UAB emergency department has discovered 2,436 positive cases since September 2013. Physicians say identifying patients and linking them to therapy is one step to reduce the infection rate locally. The program can also serve as a model that could one day eradicate hepatitis C in the United States if done on a national scale.
Prostate cancer physicians look to provide personalized medicine to prostate cancer patients with a new medical device.
Jianyi Zhang works to create tissue that can replace or protect damaged muscle after a heart attack. He and colleague offer perspectives on that in a paper in Science Translational Medicine, and he shares his plans to bioengineer heart tissue cell-by-cell.
A UAB physician provides information on risks, recommendations and effects of Zika virus for pregnant women.
UAB’s William Curry, M.D., explains the advantages for millennials to find a primary care physician and why it is a necessary step to take for their health.
Blacks are four times more likely than their white counterparts to die from stroke at age 45.
Global Temperature Report: May 2016
Investigators with the UAB School of Health Professions UAB/Lakeshore Research Collaborative have been awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention totaling more than $10 million during the next five years.
A University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) professor and astrophysicist has detected the first high-energy astrophysical source from the moon.
UAB has received a grant to develop and implement Ebola and infectious disease training to further protect health care and public safety workers.
Among black men, those with a high degree of West African genetic ancestry have less abdominal fat than those with a lower degree.
In experiments with isolated cystic fibrosis lung cells, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers and colleagues from two other institutions have partially restored the lost function of those cells to therapeutic levels.
UAB physician Fernando Ovalle says one of the more difficult aspects of finding enrollees for the trial is that many physicians immediately think adults who show diabetic symptoms are likely type 2 diabetics when — if their body mass index is below 30 — it may actually be type 1 diabetes.
UAB engineering professor Dean Sicking’s SAFER Barriers will be installed at the historic Le Mans Race Circuit.
Madeline Harris and Kristen Noles centered their careers on caring for patients at UAB Hospital; now they celebrate five years of breast cancer survivorship for Noles.
Big data provides insight into patient readmission after pediatric neurosurgery.
Researchers from UAB, Emory and Microsoft demonstrate that HIV has evolved to be pre-adapted to the immune response, worsening clinical outcomes in newly infected patients.
Five years ago, more than 200 people lost their lives and more than 2,000 injuries were reported from the April 27 tornado outbreak that swept across the state of Alabama. On that day, 35 of 67 Alabama counties suffered damage and 23,552 homes were damaged or destroyed. The Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research at The University of Alabama's Culverhouse College of Commerce released the 2016 TORNADO PREPAREDNESS GUIDE & INSURANCE TIPS.
Lynda Welker has experienced many hardships, but the Kirklin family has helped her live a full life.
Researchers at UAB look to integrate health care within rural communities to improve care for children.
Using phylogenetic software to analyze algae from ocean depths of more than 100 meters, UA biologist Dr. Juan Lopez-Bautista discovered multi-cellular structures that diversified more than 540 millions years ago
Mosasaurs – an extinct group of aquatic reptiles that thrived during the Late Cretaceous period – possibly were “endotherms,” or warm-blooded creatures.
Antibiotic use in acute and long-term care facilities is a focus of UAB’s antibiotic stewardship program.
Dr. Phillip Bitzer of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) wants to learn more about long-stroke lightning that makes things sizzle.
Daniel Deligio, O.D., treats a rare disease and provides successful treatment plan for Sam Peppers.
With a $2.5-million grant from the Gates Foundation's All Children Thriving initiative, UAB researchers are developing sensor-based devices that can detect signs of pre-term labor and predict which patients will encounter problems.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected Dr. Gary P. Zank, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and the chair of UAH’s Department of Space Science.
A company started by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) professor has won $100,000 for a rapid diagnostic device that detects and identifies the source of an infection in less than one hour using proprietary DNA-based technology.
A physics doctoral student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has discovered the second-strongest merger shock in clusters of galaxies ever observed.
Dr. Michael Steinberg, a University of Alabama associate professor in New College and geography, is conducting a study of the coastal mangrove forests in Cuba’s Zapata Peninsula and the Jardines de la Reina Garden of the Queen Marine Reserve national parks. The study is using satellite maps of the park’s coastal mangrove forests from the past 20 years to examine the forests growth or decline during that time frame. The mangrove forests of Cuba are important because they provide natural habitat for many species of aquatic fish, crabs and shrimp. They also serve as homes for migratory birds and stabilize the coast from waves, tides and tsunamis. Without them, coastal erosion would occur. The study is the first cooperate conservation mapping project between Cuba and the U.S. since the Cuban embargo.
Oral administration of AZD1480 — one of the JAK/STAT pathway inhibitors generally known as Jakinibs — lessened the destructive inflammation and nerve cell degradation in the area of the brain affected by Parkinson’s.
Global Temperature Report: April 2016
Scientists using long-term surface temperature data to track climate change caused by greenhouse gases would be best served using only daily high temperature readings without the nighttime lows, according to new research.
Two young Alabama women formed a bond over a rare germ cell cancer affecting only 1,000 women across the United States.
Researchers have learned new information about how different people respond to aspirin, a globally prescribed drug in cardioprotection. The team identified more than 5,600 lipids in blood platelets and gained new insights into how these cells respond to aspirin.
A new tornado early warning system could result from research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) that’s being conducted with the help of General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) and supported by $50,000 in seed funding.
UAB School of Nursing Professor David Vance, Ph.D., received a five-year, $2.86 million R01 grant to test ways of improving cognitive function in older adults with HIV.
Adam Gordon, O.D., discusses blue light, including the lack of clinical evidence in advertisements overstating dangers, as well as the effects of blue light on sleep and eye discomfort.
The facility will enable new distracted-driving research, addressing the major public health issue of highway and traffic-related injuries and death.
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