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New Magnetic Brain Stimulation Technique Enhances Efficiency of Bipolar Disorder Treatment
A potential new treatment for bipolar disorder (BP) that significantly shortens treatment time has emerged, following a randomized clinical trial using accelerated intermittent theta burst stimulation (aiTBS). While current theta burst…
Penn Medicine’s Douglas B. Cines Awarded Henry M. Stratton Medal for Excellence in Hematology
Douglas B. Cines, MD, a professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and a professor of Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the 2024 recipient of the of the Henry M. Stratton…
New Study Stresses Diversity’s Impact on Understanding Health Disparities
The majority of genetic studies focus on people of European descent, which limits the understanding of how genes influence health in other populations. Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and…
Penn Medicine Expert Named President-Elect of American Society for Radiation Oncology
The members of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) have selected Neha Vapiwala, MD, FACR, FASTRO, FASCO, the Eli Glatstein Professor in Radiation Oncology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of…
Boosting Anti-Tumor Response: CD5 Knockout on CAR T Cells Shows Promising Results
The effectiveness of CAR T cell therapy against a variety of cancers, including solid tumors, could be boosted greatly by using CRISPR-Cas9 technology to knock out the gene for CD5, a protein found on the surface of T cells, according to a…
UAB Study Assesses Cardiovascular Health Scores to Predict Mortality Risks
Physician-scientists from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine conducted a nationwide study evaluating the predictive value of cardiovascular health scores for mortality. The study,…
Advanced Machine Learning Techniques Expedite Study of Heart Aging in Fruit Flies, a Human Disease…
Drosophila — commonly known as fruit flies — are a valuable model for human heart pathophysiology, including cardiac aging and cardiomyopathy. However, a choke point in evaluating fruit fly hearts is the need for human intervention to…
New Study Treats Dyskinesia as “Bad Motor Memory,” Halts Symptoms by Blocking Activin A
Common treatments for Parkinson’s disease can address short-term symptoms but can also cause extensive problems for patients in the long run. Namely, treatments can cause dyskinesia, a form of uncontrollable movements and…
UAB Researchers Create Most Comprehensive Exercise Biology Dataset to Date
The most robust database of exercise biology ever produced is being developed by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers, in collaboration with their partners across the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity…
UAB’s Porrett Receives NIH R01 Grant for Uterine Transplantation Research
University of Alabama at Birmingham Division of Transplantation Associate Professor Paige Porrett, M.D., Ph.D., has been awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious…