For 45 years, this competition has highlighted UAB students who excel in academics, leadership and community involvement, all while showing true Blazer spirit.

UAB has earned the 2025 Outstanding Heart Failure Care Team Award for its nurse-led, interprofessional approach to improving outcomes for underserved patients.

A decade after losing her mother to a rare brain virus, UAB graduate Julie Schifanella is learning to use artificial intelligence to help other patients.

The Bryant quadruplets were born at 23 weeks and four days — 115 days premature — and are the new Guinness World Records title holders for the most premature quadruplets.

Becca, a mom from England, and Zoy, a mom from Alabama, first connected as a potential surrogate match. Their journey through a high-risk pregnancy and a five-and-a-half-month NICU stay bonded them forever as sisters.

Three families traveled from across Alabama to share their gratitude for UAB physicians and nurses who made an impact in their NICU journey.

UAB was among the first medical centers in the country to obtain a MEG, having done so originally in 2001; however, evolving technology has created a need for replacing the old technology with a new one.

This annual fundraiser supports UAB’s on-campus food pantry, Blazer Kitchen, which helps provide nutritious food, resources and referrals to patients, employees and students in need.

The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees unanimously approved plans on Sept. 25, 2024, for the UAB Health System to transition to a new electronic health record platform, EPIC, for electronic health records, revenue cycle and clinical research functions. 

Following the planned UAB Health System acquisition announced last month, included Ascension St. Vincent’s operations and sites of care will have a new name: UAB St. Vincent’s.

UAB Medical West, an affiliate of the UAB Health System, will open Saturday, Aug. 3.

For 11 consecutive years, U.S. News has named UAB Hospital the best hospital in Alabama, with several specialties and procedures ranked among the best.

UAB Medical West, an affiliate of the UAB Health System, plans to be fully operational and serve West Jefferson County in early August.

The transaction will include current Ascension St. Vincent’s services, facilities, caregivers and associates, including a robust network of providers serving the region and is expected to be completed in the fall of 2024.

UAB’s strategic planning continues to blaze its path to improve more lives by leveraging construction projects that include new and enhanced facilities across the institution, blooming green spaces and art installations.

UAB Hospital has been named a one of the first ever “Best Regional Hospitals for Equitable Access” for its commitment to serving socioeconomically disadvantaged patients.

Knowing the basics of CPR, even low-quality CPR from a bystander, can be a lifesaving action for a person in need.

New efficient care for patients with stroke is helping UAB lead the way in outcomes for patients who present in the emergency department.

Two Alabama women with the same one-in-a-million pregnancy deliver healthy “twins” at UAB Hospital less than two months apart.

At 15 months old, Brooke Miley Lillie received a heart transplant. At 19, she received a kidney. At 27, she defied the odds and delivered her first daughter at UAB Hospital.