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UAB Medicine’s Staging Transition for Every Patient (STEP) program helps teenage and young adult patients with chronic and complex medical conditions from childhood switch to adult health care. The program also works to create awareness about the unique challenges this vulnerable patient population faces.

UAB Women and Infants Center (WIC) has expanded its meal provision for mothers who are breastfeeding their infants during a stay in UAB’s Regional Newborn Intensive Care Unit (RNICU) and Continuing Care Nursery (CCN). Meals for mothers and their families have been provided on a limited basis in the past through a partnership with the March of Dimes Family Support Program. The expansion of this program by UAB Food and Nutrition Services now ensures that meals are available for mothers six days a week.

Playing sports is fun, but sports-related injuries are not. To help you keep the fun going uninterrupted, UAB Medicine experts shared the following safety tips for protecting the eyes, mouth, and body from sports-related injuries.

UAB Hospital was again named the best hospital in Alabama by U.S. News & World Report, and Rehabilitation now ranks No. 19 nationally among adult specialties in the 2023-2024 ‘Best Hospital’ list released in August. UAB Rehabilitation moved up one spot from No. 20 in last year’s ranking.

UAB Hospital was once again named the best hospital in Alabama by U.S. News & World Report, in its 2023-2024 Best Hospital rankings, released today. The University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital also claims the No. 1 ranking as the best hospital in the Birmingham metro area.  

School lunches and after-school snacks are important parts of a child’s daily routine. With a little creativity, you can help ensure that your child’s routine is based on healthy choices.

As summer nears the end and the school year is beginning, parents may be thinking about steps they can take to protect their child’s health this academic year. Experts from UAB Medicine are here to help with their recommendations for four appointments parents should make for their child this summer.

The Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Clinic at UAB Hospital has been named a Center of Excellence by the Cure HHT foundation. HHT is an uncommon but serious genetic disease that prevents blood vessels from developing properly. The condition can lead to stroke, heart failure, anemia and serious bleeding — most often from the nose.

At age 17, Mallory was given a devastating diagnosis that would drastically change the way she could start a family one day.  

The All of Us Research Program, launched in May 2018, was designed to create a new kind of cohort study.

In early 2023, the University of Alabama at Birmingham crossed an impressive surgical threshold: UAB surgeons across 15 medical disciplines surpassed more than 20,000 robotic surgeries completed at UAB Hospital since UAB Medicine began performing robotic surgery in 2004.

July in Alabama is hot and humid. With people spending more time outdoors this time of year, UAB Medicine Emergency Department physicians are reminding the public to stay hydrated, keep cool, and be aware of the signs of heat-related illness and dehydration.