Health care

A University of Alabama at Birmingham-researched drug with potential for treating COVID-19 recently received FDA approval as a rare disease treatment, a distinction that...

Birmingham is home to one of only 26 commercial labs in the nation approved to test for COVID-19. Assurance Scientific Laboratories is a complex R&D...

As the coronavirus spreads in the U.S. and in Alabama, healthcare workers are under tremendous strain to help the sick, while keeping themselves and...

What business clients are asking their attorney about COVID-19: How to protect their employees, how to handle business disruptions and how to address contractual obligations

The SSI Group, a health care financial technology company based in Mobile, has named Diana Allen its new president and chief executive officer. Allen most...

Incysus Therapeutics Inc. has received permission to begin testing a new cancer treatment in patients at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The new drug-resistant...

The sicker you are, the longer your stay in the hospital and the more specialists you see. That seems logical. But the correlation between your health...

Researchers at Tuskegee University are reprogramming immune cells to kill cancer and halt tumor growth. Cancerous tumors evade detection and boost their own growth by...

Birmingham construction company Brasfield & Gorrie recently delivered to Vestavia Hills a sparkling new community asset in the form of access to quality health...

Performacide, a chlorine dioxide-based viral disinfectant produced by Star brite Inc. in Montgomery, is registered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a virucide...