As UAB mounts a response to COVID-19, the Department of Medicine is focused on providing the very best care to all our patients. Each division is currently developing plans for how to deploy our ...

The study — first made available in MedRxiv and now published in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Endocrinology — included 25,326 patients tested for COVID-19 at the tertiary care UAB Hospital ...

Mustafa Ahmed (Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Disease) attributes the decline to an obvious cause. People delayed coming to the hospital because they were afraid of contracting COVID-19. However, ...

The UAB House Calls Program provides primary care to homebound individuals who are typically very frail with multiple serious medical conditions. Because the patients are at high risk for complication ...

UAB opened a new COVID Respiratory Clinic in the old Regions Bank location led by infectious diseases physicians Turner Overton, MD, and Mike Saag, MD. The clinic welcomes current patients of UAB who ...

On January 10, medevac helicopter pilot Ricky Hamm was admitted to the hospital for severe breathing issues caused by COVID-19. His condition was severe, and physicians had to treat Hamm with ...

From the initial shipment, nearly 7,000 UAB Medicine employees have received a vaccination, and additional vaccine is arriving soon. We are grateful to be part of the first wave of people receiving ...

UAB ID Physicians Provide Expert Guidance on Responding to Coronavirus UAB Healthcare Epidemiologist Rachael Lee, MD, and Infectious Diseases Division Director Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, are at the ...

A new interdisciplinary program now offers specialized care for patients who experience long-lasting symptoms following COVID-19. Appointments will span multiple clinics across pulmonary, cardiology, ...

While working in the UAB COVID-19 Respiratory Clinic, Jo Hofmann, MD (Clinical Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases) realized that many of her patients had previously received steroid ...

School of Medicine Dean Selwyn Vickers, MD, recently shined a light on alarming health inequities revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. He calls out disproportionate death rates among African Americans ...

The dominance of the Delta strain of COVID-19 combined with Alabama’s low vaccination rate has led experts to turn to monoclonal antibody infusion, a treatment in which infected individuals are ...