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. 

UAB Medicine and Talladega have entered a three-year partnership, with UAB Medicine providing medical care for competitors and fans.

Trauma patients rushed to a hospital often find that the clothes they were wearing do not survive their medical emergency. A UAB medical student is working to provide discharge with dignity.

UAB experts offer tips on preventive steps you can take to stay healthy and avoid a visit to the emergency department.

The volume of cases in the emergency department and the severity of the injuries seen by the staff provide a good training ground for nursing competitions.

Injury and illness can happen to anyone. Going to the right place of care could save lives.  

Emergency department workers were the first line of defense against COVID, but their risk of infection was higher when they were not at work in their hospitals.

Mixing alcohol with the blaze of intense Southern heat can be a dangerous combo.

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.

Record $95 million Heersink lead gift to advance strategic growth and biomedical innovation.

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.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on the mental health of emergency department staff, both clinical and non-clinical.

Emergency departments are crowded, and patients might want to consider alternative care options such as urgent care centers.

Groundbreaking research from UAB shows that out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of years lost and years lived with a disability due to a disease. 

With these tips from UAB Emergency Medicine, know how to identify poison ivy, oak and sumac, protect yourself against allergic reaction, and treat exposed areas.

There’s ticks in them-there woods, and that means the possibility of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, as one UAB patient recently discovered.

There's a new designer drug wreaking havoc across the United States, and even though it sounds innocent, it can be deadly.