This accreditation signifies the culmination of efforts involving faculty, staff and institutional partners committed to advancing emergency medicine.

Patients are now able to receive the same level of care for snakebites that they would typically receive in the emergency department.

Experts at the Comprehensive Snakebite Program at UAB and Children’s of Alabama provide steps on what to do if bitten by a venomous snake.

As temperatures heat up, the risk of contracting a heat-related illness increases. Experts at UAB discuss the best ways to stay safe this summer.

Knowing the basics of CPR, even low-quality CPR from a bystander, can be a lifesaving action for a person in need.

New efficient care for patients with stroke is helping UAB lead the way in outcomes for patients who present in the emergency department.

School of Nursing student Emily Fonville quickly learned the UAB family is committed to helping each other achieve their purpose after her longtime health issues challenged her education.

Hyperbaric medicine is a therapy that treats oxygen like a drug, delivering high-pressure oxygen to treat wounds for patients in need.

Trauma patients rushed to a hospital often find that the clothes they were wearing do not survive their medical emergency. A UAB medical student is working to provide discharge with dignity.

UAB experts offer tips on preventive steps you can take to stay healthy and avoid a visit to the emergency department.

The volume of cases in the emergency department and the severity of the injuries seen by the staff provide a good training ground for nursing competitions.

Injury and illness can happen to anyone. Going to the right place of care could save lives.  

Emergency department workers were the first line of defense against COVID, but their risk of infection was higher when they were not at work in their hospitals.

Mixing alcohol with the blaze of intense Southern heat can be a dangerous combo.

Record $95 million Heersink lead gift to advance strategic growth and biomedical innovation.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on the mental health of emergency department staff, both clinical and non-clinical.

Groundbreaking research from UAB shows that out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of years lost and years lived with a disability due to a disease. 

With these tips from UAB Emergency Medicine, know how to identify poison ivy, oak and sumac, protect yourself against allergic reaction, and treat exposed areas.

There’s ticks in them-there woods, and that means the possibility of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, as one UAB patient recently discovered.

There's a new designer drug wreaking havoc across the United States, and even though it sounds innocent, it can be deadly.