Type 2 diabetes is alarmingly on the rise in Alabama youth, but following a healthy diet and exercising regularly can help mitigate the risk and the severity.

Published results suggest the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the slow increase in pediatric Type 2 diabetes.

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.

Noninvasive ventilation is possible in infants at limits of viability. But unlike in slightly older preterm infants, noninvasive ventilation did not show an advantage in infants of 22 weeks-0 days to 23 weeks-6 days gestational age.

Implementing a consistent and simple routine can help with a smooth transition into a new school year and alleviate stress and anxiety in children and adolescents.

Car seats are documented to reduce injuries and deaths in children but are effective only if installed and used properly.

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

As the summer temperatures increase, so does the risk of heat-related illness and death. A UAB pediatrician shares best practices for parents to prevent child hot car deaths.

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.

COVID-related acute kidney injury peaked in 10- to 15-year-olds and 70- to 75-year-olds, suggesting age is not the sole determinant in severity of illness from COVID-19.

COVID-19 changed the way we communicate, care for others, educate our children, work and more. Experts from UAB weigh in on these changes.

Death or severe brain bleeding in the first week after birth dropped from 27.4 percent to 15 percent after introduction of a bundle of evidence-based, potentially better practices for preterm infants. Median weight of the 820 infants studied was 1 pound, 10 ounces.

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

The life sciences fund will focus on development of early-stage UAB technologies and startup companies.

Blood and marrow transplantation strategies have changed significantly over the past four decades; but recipients still experience excess mortality that translates into 8.7 years of life lost, according to researchers in UAB’s Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship.

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

Parent and UAB pediatrician Candice Dye, M.D., provides tips that can make the difference in saving a child’s life during hot summer months.

G207, an immunotherapy derived from a modified herpes virus is well tolerated in children with gliomas, and shows signs of clinical effectiveness

Research conducted at UAB is reaching the front lines of treatment of the novel coronavirus.

Excess exposure to oxygen can cause long-term effects on preterm infants.