UAB’s new director of the Division of Urogynecology discusses pelvic organ prolapse prevention, treatment and the importance of open conversations around the condition that affects many women in the United States.

The University of Alabama System approves plan to move forward with replacing Cooper Green’s current facility with a state-of-the-art medical clinic.

The Zorro-Flow Inc. is the newest startup from the UAB Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The device is the first external catheter to collect urine effectively, safely and comfortably from critically ill female neonates and children.

UAB researchers have discovered a new way to treat melanoma by targeting CDC7 with EZH2 or BRPF1/2/3 inhibitors.

The NIH grant will advance efforts to reduce the gap between research and care of sickle cell disease.

The Tuscaloosa clinic is UAB Callahan Eye’s 18th clinic location in Alabama.

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

An aneurysm is a bulge in a blood vessel caused by a weakness in the blood vessel wall, resulting in an increase of pressure in a small area and causing the vessel to balloon.

Tips on how to successfully transition a child with disabilities from summer to fall schedules. 

The new clinic targets prevention and early intervention, providing a brief, stepped care option to patients at risk for, or with, mild to moderate psychiatric and chronic health conditions.

One UAB patient uses her transformational story to spread awareness of scleroderma.

UAB Hospital re-verified as a Level I Trauma Center, marking 23 years of holding that designation.

U.S. News & World report named UAB Hospital as the best hospital in Alabama.

UAB rheumatologists will begin seeing patients at the UAB Hoover Primary Care clinic in July 2022.

UAB has the first program in the United States to offer uterus transplantation outside of a clinical research trial and is one of very few centers in the world accepting new patients.

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

All of the newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme patients enrolled in a Phase 1 clinical trial have exceeded both their median and expected progression-free survivals. Two patients, to date, have exceeded their expected overall survival.

A first-of-its-kind snakebite program at UAB aims to provide better long term treatment of venomous bites, as well as gain a better understanding of the medical consequences of snakebite.

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

Ascension St. Vincent’s Chilton is now home to a tele-critical care and tele-stroke unit.

UAB experts provide ways seniors can take and maintain control of their health in several areas of wellness.

Radiofrequency ablation precisely delivers heat energy that can destroy lesions within the brain that are the cause of seizures.

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

Based on information out of UAB and the ADPH, the CDC issued a health alert encouraging providers presented with pediatric patients with hepatitis of an unknown origin to screen for the adenovirus-41 strain.

According to the Alabama Department of Public Health, Alabama ranks fifth in the United States for oral cavity and pharynx cancer incidence and seventh among the states for oral cavity and pharynx cancer deaths.

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

Luxturna uses a non-disease-causing virus to deliver a normal copy of the RPE65 gene to retinal cells, enabling them to make proteins capable of improving and preserving visual function.

UAB has been awarded for its superior CAR-T therapy program services and leadership.

UAB-led national study shows using blood pressure medication to treat pregnant women with chronic hypertension improves pregnancy outcomes, including a decrease in severe preeclampsia and preterm birth.

UAB primary care providers discuss screenings, immunizations, diet, exercise and other women’s health-related illnesses.