Tag: health
Updates from City of Birmingham, Miles College, BCRI on coronavirus
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin on Friday instructed the city’s Department of Innovation and Economic Opportunity to identify ways to support...
List of Birmingham events cancelled or delayed due to coronavirus
The Birmingham Times
Due to a growing concern over the spread of the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, several events with an expected large attendance...
Drew: Safety Tips When Attending Large Crowded Events
By Samuetta Hill Drew
Spring and summer are two popular seasons for various types of large events, both in and outdoors. It is also the...
Ellis: The Closure of Safety Net Hospitals
By Glenn Ellis
There is a disturbing trend of closings of community-based, or “safety net” hospitals, which like most things in healthcare disproportionally and negatively...
Contagion: Officials work to lower risk of coronavirus in Jeffco
By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times
As governments around the world ramp up responses to the coronavirus, the Birmingham metro area has institutions that play a...
Get Healthy on the Railroad marks 10th year
railroadpark.org
2020 marks 10 years for Get Healthy on the Railroad, the series of free exercise and cooking classes sponsored by Blue Cross and Blue...
Ellis: Healthcare For All. Really?
By Glenn Ellis
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain...
Dr. Mia Cowan: Finding a Beautiful Approach to Health
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
MiBella means “my beautiful” in Italian—and that’s the goal for Mia Cowan, MD, at her wellness center off of Highway...
Ellis: A Call to Action to Protect Food Stamps
By Glenn Ellis
Am I the only one who realizes that the “diversion” of the Trump Impeachment hearings came at a time where, quite literally,...
How Onset of Diabetes Differs for Blacks and Whites
By Adam Pope
UAB News
A new study published in Circulation Research by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers shows that young, healthy African American individuals...