Health & Medicine

Canon will serve in the dual roles beginning in May 2024.

Williams has now mentored more than 30 burn patients as they continue in their recovery.

The multidisciplinary clinic will offer a full spectrum of sports and exercise medicine services to patients, including non-operative and surgical procedures and nutritional, biologic injections, cardio, exercise in pregnancy, and physical medicine and rehabilitation services.  

Hyperbaric medicine is a therapy that treats oxygen like a drug, delivering high-pressure oxygen to treat wounds for patients in need.

The UAB Neonatal Helping Hands program provides volunteers the opportunity to hold, rock, talk, sing and read to infants in the RNICU and CCN. The program, which was paused in 2020 due to COVID, has relaunched and is accepting volunteer applications.

Ovarian cancer is known as the “silent killer” due to the difficulty in early detection because most women do not have any early symptoms.

This study, performed in a pre-clinical human model, is the first time xenotransplanted pig kidneys have shown clearance of creatinine and shown a standard immunosuppression regimen may be sufficient.

The baby boy, born in late May 2023, is the first baby born from a uterus transplant outside of a clinical trial and UAB’s first baby from its uterus transplant program.

To address the critical need for more emergency medical services in Birmingham and Alabama, UAB Hospital — with support from the State of Alabama — is creating 59 new exam rooms and more than 66,000 square feet of clinical space to meet service demand. 

Hormonal changes throughout a woman’s life may impact oral health.

Six months after giving birth to identical twins, Britney Alba found out she was pregnant with her second set of identical twins. These twins, however, were monochorionic-monoamniotic — one of the rarest types of twins.

The potential affiliation will help RMC Health System to sustain and improve access to high-quality, low-cost care close to home.

To help families cherish the loving memory of their dear ones, a UAB nurse started her “Heartbeat in a Bottle” initiative to give families a unique way to remember the loved ones they have lost.

Expected to open in early 2025, the new Cooper Green Mercy Health clinical building will usher in a new era in health care for Jefferson County residents in need.

Double vision is an eye condition that requires prompt evaluation by an eye care provider.  

The clinic — supported by a $3.4 million state appropriation — is part of the UAB School of Dentistry’s innovative efforts to combat the shortage of dentists in rural areas of the state.

An internal decapitation is rare but not unheard of, and it takes a team to help a patient recover.

The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB celebrates 50 years of service to the state and beyond.

Her leg broke at mile 16 of a marathon. Thanks to UAB Orthopaedics, she was racing again in seven months.

The $156.7 million, 350,000-square-foot project will replace the existing Spain Rehabilitation Center.

Seth Wharton, 44, received a double heart-valve replacement at UAB in 1990.

Northwest Regional joins a growing number of other Alabama hospitals as part of the UAB Health System.

Diane Bishop creates care packages for other aortic patients to equip them with the supplies they need to take control of their health.

Medical West Hospital Authority, an affiliate of UAB Health System, broke ground on its replacement facility on Wednesday, November 17.

Guinness World Records officially named Curtis Means, born at 21 weeks and one day at UAB Hospital, the most premature infant to survive.

UAB Hospital is home to the only accredited geriatric ED in Alabama, the first one in the Southeast and the 17th Level 1 geriatric ED in the world.

Some of the sickest patients with COVID-19 need a ventilator to breathe. Here is what that means.

There are plenty of other potential suspects when it comes to chest pain.

The alliance will utilize innovative strategies to address health disparities, mental and behavioral health, and diabetes, with an emphasis on expanded access for poor, vulnerable and rural populations.

Harvard-trained physician and clinician-scientist will begin his new role Jan. 6, 2020.