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Approximately 20 to 30 percent of adults in the United States may not be correctly diagnosed with having hypertension due to differences in their blood pressure when measured in their doctor鈥檚 office versus outside of their doctor鈥檚 office.

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Dr. Azita Amiri, an assistant professor in UAH鈥檚 College of Nursing, and Dr. Shuang Zhao, an assistant professor in both the Department of Political Science and the Department of Atmospheric Science, have been working to bring attention to the plight of residents in Uniontown, Ala., an environmental justice community located in the state鈥檚 Black Belt.

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A calorie-dense, obesity-generating diet in aging mice disrupts the composition of the gut microbiome. This correlates with development of a system-wide nonresolving inflammation in acute heart failure, with a notable disruption of the immune cell profile, primarily the neutrophil-leukocyte ratio.

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Researchers examined the effect of vaginal tenofovir 1 percent gel use on the risk of acquiring herpes simplex virus type 2, or HSV-2.

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UAH is the original host university of the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI), a statewide initiative to improve math and science teaching in Alabama by providing participating schools with professional development, equipment and materials, and onsite support from content specialists.

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How certain bacteria may make people more prone to asthma is one topic of three research grants jointly funded by Southern Research and the UAB School of Medicine. These new research pilots are the latest effort to harness synergies between researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Southern Research, a Birmingham-based nonprofit research institute with nearly 400 scientists and engineers. The two other pilots seek an improved way to develop new vaccines and a new mouse model for a potentially dangerous, hereditary deficiency shared by 400 million people worldwide.

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UAH鈥檚 College of Business is an early and ongoing supporter of the Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities (CEO) program, an initiative that seeks to bring entrepreneurial education to school districts in Decatur and throughout Morgan County.

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A powerful tool is available to investigate brain development, memory and learning, and brain dysregulation in neuropsychiatric diseases like addiction, depression, schizophrenia and Alzheimer鈥檚. This molecular biology tool can selectively and robustly turn on genes in brain neurons of living rats.

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UAB researchers found spending 20 minutes in an urban park will make someone happier 鈥� whether they are engaging in exercise or not during the visit.

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According to the American Heart Association鈥檚 Heart and Stroke Statistics, nearly half of all adults in the United States have some type of cardiovascular disease.

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Scientists at the microbiology lab led by Javier Campos-G贸mez, Ph.D., in Drug Discovery at Southern Research discovered that Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium responsible for severe, drug-resistant infections in humans, uses a family of fatty acids, known as 鈥渙xylipins,鈥� in a cell-to-cell signaling language critical for its virulence.

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The Leadership and Management in Nursing course, offered by UAH鈥檚 College of Nursing, includes a "mock hospital" experience that allows faculty members to assess the students鈥� clinical skills and critical thinking abilities prior to launching them into their preceptorship.

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Findings suggest there is no improvement in pregnancy outcomes for obese women who receive early gestational diabetes screening.

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