Robert Lee (left) and KenNyah Pritchett (right) play with books as they wait for their appointment at Children’s Park Place. A book fair benefitting the Reach Out and Read program will take place Thursday, Feb. 19 and Friday, Feb. 20, in the second floor lobby of Children’s Harbor. The program, sponsored by the UAB Pediatric Primary Care Clinic, encourages parents to read to their children. Books donated will be given to children ages 6 months to 5 years during their annual checkup. The books are used to assess the child’s developmental skills and to model reading behavior for the parent during the visit.

The UAHSF General Endowment Fund awarded a total of $1,250,000 for 2009 to nine grant recipients across four categories: clinical care initiatives, medical education initiatives, laboratory research initiatives and patient-research initiatives.

The Addiction Recovery Program unites renowned specialists, innovative treatments, advanced research and state-of-the-art medical resources to create a strong network of support for each patient.

A drought isn’t good for most of us, but it was a boon for the construction of the Women and Infants Center and adjoining Hazelrig-Salter Radiation Oncology Facility.

UAB employees who meet a certain salary threshold, or whose job includes management of state funds in certain capacities, are required to file their annual Statement of Economic Interests form with the Alabama Ethics Commission by April 30.

Almost 74 percent of Americans do not get enough sleep each night, according to the National Sleep Foundation, and more people are suffering from sleep deprivation each year.

The Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) recently was awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare and Quality (AHRQ) to study the risks and benefits of biologics to provide patients and their doctors more definitive information on the benefits and risks of the medications.

Gain a better understanding of the credit crisis underlying the world's economic downturn and the ethical missteps during the First Thursdays Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5.

New Stories from the South, an annual compilation of short stories published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and billed as the year’s best stories written by southern writers, will republish a story from the recent edition of PMS poemmemoirstory in it’s next edition.

Dr. Paul Cleveland, professor of economics at Birmingham-Southern College will speak to the UAB Christian Faculty Society Tuesday, Feb. 3. His topic will be "Understanding the Modern Culture Wars: An Overview."