Findings from a new UAB study show greater levels of grandparenting intensity are not associated with greater physical activity. 

An expert from the new UAB Falls Clinic provides tips on how to keep older adults safe from falls.

See the powerful documentary “The Last Ecstatic Days” at UAB's ALys Stephens Center and hear about the cultural and spiritual considerations of dying from UAB caregivers and Aditi Sethi, M.D., with The Center for Conscious Living & Dying, with guest artist Manjari Sharma.

For 11 consecutive years, U.S. News has named UAB Hospital the best hospital in Alabama, with several specialties and procedures ranked among the best.

This study is providing researchers with an infrastructure they can build upon as they work to fully understand how exercise impacts the entire body.

Healthcare Decisions Day is April 16, and UAB experts are providing recommendations for how to get started with advance care planning.

The Blazer Bridge Fund is intended to identify and assist in the development of promising ideas, discoveries, innovations and/or technologies from UAB faculty and staff that have commercial potential. 

To help families cherish the loving memory of their dear ones, a UAB nurse started her “Heartbeat in a Bottle” initiative to give families a unique way to remember the loved ones they have lost.

UAB researchers have published an article demonstrating how the term “aggressive care,” used loosely by clinicians to describe care that can negatively impact quality of life for patients with serious illness, is often used to inappropriately label the preferences of African American patients.

Everyone will experience aging, but can a person enhance their aging through simple modifications? UAB experts say yes.

U.S. News & World report named UAB Hospital as the best hospital in Alabama.

UAB experts provide ways seniors can take and maintain control of their health in several areas of wellness.

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

UAB Hospital is home to the only accredited geriatric ED in Alabama, the first one in the Southeast and the 17th Level 1 geriatric ED in the world.

More than 500 patients have been visited by physicians and nurse practitioners in UAB’s House Calls program since 2014.

Lower blood pressure target of 120 mm Hg greatly reduces cardiovascular complications and deaths in older adults.

INFOGRAPHIC: See our quick guide to causes and treatments for low diastolic blood pressure.

Low diastolic blood pressure is a risk factor for new-onset heart failure in older adults. UAB cardiologist Jason Guichard explains why that might be, the causes of low diastolic pressure and how to deal with it.

Newly named condition, “isolated diastolic hypotension,” can be difficult to treat while increasing risk of death.