The UAB Health System will continue to accept United Healthcare insurance following a finalized agreement.

Eight tips to help parents encourage healthy eating for their children.

Following months of negotiations, the contracts will expire July 30 between United Healthcare and several UAB Health System entities. Only the Emergency Department at each hospital will remain open to United plan members without additional out-of-pocket costs.

The newly named O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB will be supported by a $30 million gift from O'Neal Industries.

The $30 million gift will go into an endowment — creating a yearly flexible fund of about $1.5 million that leadership of the cancer center and UAB School of Medicine can use in ways that best leverage further advancement of the cancer center.

Jessica Martindale’s perfect vision was quickly tested after her infant son inadvertently scratched her cornea. Thankfully, physicians at UAB Callahan Eye Hospital were there to help.

Watch a bleeding-control demonstration and join in with questions live as trauma surgeons show benefits of kits in public settings.

Researchers have found the rate of hospitalization for sarcoidosis has increased, and in-hospital mortality associated with sarcoidosis has decreased.

With both Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Lyme disease increasing in recent years, UAB wilderness medicine physician says it’s important to dress properly and to perform tick checks after woodland excursions.

One of the most common types of cancer is skin cancer. A UAB dermatologist shares background information, risks and how to protect your skin.

Combining two high-powered imaging techniques into a single scanner allows UAB to acquire and study PET and MRI data simultaneously, enabling new opportunities for diagnostic imaging of cancer, the brain and heart.

Springing forward with daylight saving time may increase your risk of having a heart attack if you have a history of heart disease.

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.