UAB Medicine

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is observed in Alabama and across the country every year in October. When it comes to breast cancer prevention, the University of Alabama at Birmingham reports there are things that women of all ages can educate themselves on and incorporate into their daily lives to help them live the healthiest lives possible.

An Alabama hospital is offering a new treatment for chronic low back pain. The therapy is done by physicians at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Pain Treatment Clinic.

A large Alabama hospital has paused in vitro fertilization treatments as health care providers weigh the impact of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are the legal equivalent of children.

More than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease. The population of older adults in the Birmingham area is expected to rise nearly fifty thousand people by the end of this decade. Nutrition, exercise, and socialization tend to decrease as adults turn into elders.

Black women in the U.S. are nearly three times more likely to die during pregnancy or delivery than any other race. Some doctors don't take their concerns seriously. Black babies are more likely to die, and also far more likely to be born prematurely.

The COVID-19 federal public health emergency ended two weeks ago, but Alabama health leaders say the virus is not completely gone.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is part of a study to examine why more Black people aren't involved in clinical trials involving lung cancer…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama medical center says the protected health information of more than 19,000 patients has been exposed through a computer…