In a recent study published in the ESC Heart Failure by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers, two newly recommended scores are very effective in diagnosing heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, a type ...
Apr 2, 2021
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Researchers have found an unexpected synergy between a T-cell stimulatory protein—the ICOS ligand—and interleukin-10, an immunoregulatory cytokine, to prevent inflammatory bowel disease in mice. The study will aid the ...
Mar 25, 2021
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The triggers and causes of a severe scarring disease of the lungs—idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF—remain unclear.
Mar 18, 2021
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Studies of the microbiome in the human gut focus mainly on bacteria. Other microbes that are also present in the gut—viruses, protists, archaea and fungi—have been largely overlooked.
Mar 5, 2021
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Front-line health care workers in hospital emergency departments are at increased risk for anxiety, burnout, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder while coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research published ...
Mar 4, 2021
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The United States could be approaching herd immunity, which occurs when enough people become immune to a disease to make its spread unlikely, according to Suzanne Judd, Ph.D., an epidemiologist in the School of Public Health ...
Feb 24, 2021
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The Altimmune Inc. vaccine candidate that was tested preclinically at the University of Alabama at Birmingham last year is expected to start patient enrollment for its Phase 1 clinical trial next week.
Feb 19, 2021
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Hypoxia—where a tissue is deprived of an adequate supply of oxygen—is a feature inside solid cancer tumors that renders them highly invasive and resistant to treatment. Study of how cells adapt to this critical stressor, ...
Feb 3, 2021
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Grapes may help protect against damage to the skin caused by the sun's ultraviolet radiation in healthy adults, according to a new study by researchers in the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Department of Dermatology.
Feb 3, 2021
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A 72-year-old woman was hospitalized with severe COVID-19 disease, 33 days after the onset of symptoms. She was suffering a prolonged deteriorating illness, with severe pneumonia and a high risk of death, and she was unable ...
Jan 21, 2021
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