UAB medicine

While babies are born with very little vitamin K, and the only way to sufficiently supplement it is through an injection soon after birth, some parents are shying away from the shots.

Pennington has served as senior vice president and chief operating officer at Medical West since 2003.

UAB is the only hospital in Alabama that can repair leaks around replacement heart valves using minimally invasive techniques.

Renal replacement therapy performed continuously over 24 hours provides better hemodynamic tolerance, fluid removal in critically ill patients with kidney failure.

Quirky evolution yields clues to a fatal condition.

NIH grant for brain cancer also makes UAB one of few centers with four Specialized Program of Research Excellence awards.

Blueberries provide nutritious benefits and prevent cell damage that can lead to cancer.

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.

UAB Hospital went to a full-time room-service approach for all patient meals in October 2010