Health care

Huntsville Hospital Systems was one of five hospitals in the country that were recently highlighted by Becker's Hospital Review as outstanding examples of the...

Legislators have become convinced of the net benefits of extending Medicaid, but they’re stuck on the horns of budget earmarking. Maybe the lottery issue, too.

Medical research being done in Birmingham aims to decrease painful symptoms of sickle cell disease that can have devastating effects on the patient’s health. Sickle...

University of Alabama at Birmingham Pediatric Oncologist Gregory Friedman has been awarded a three-year, $750,000 R01 grant for a phase 1 immunotherapy clinical trial...

A reminder that comes heavy as a fruitcake is a recent study showing Alabama at the front of the national obesity epidemic. The analysis, published...

As the New Year unfolds, a seven-story addition to the Huntsville, Alabama, skyline will continue rising above the downtown campus of Huntsville Hospital, Alabama's...

UAB Medicine had a ribbon-cutting Tuesday for its new, expanded UAB Medicine Hoover Primary Care clinic, a 39,000 square-foot facility that will begin seeing...

SiO2 Materials Science, based in Auburn, has launched a blood collection tube it calls the Synergy Tube, its first genetic diagnostics product on the...

Children's of Alabama, in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, will soon begin using a breakthrough stem cell therapy to treat patients with an especially...

The cost for in-home care in Alabama remains well below the national average but is rising much faster than the cost for nursing home...