Tag: health

By Fletcher Allen UAB News Throughout the pandemic, people have had to adapt quickly to changes in recommendations from experts — start wearing masks, practice proper...

By Samuetta Hill Drew We have spent several weeks exploring the different aspects of the two-federal authorized COVID-19 vaccines – Pfizer-BioTech and Moderna. Past articles...

By Glenn Ellis Even though the speed of the COIVD -19 vaccination campaign has improved somewhat, there are still millions and millions more doses yet...

By Tyler Greer UAB News Of the 59,167 vaccination doses delivered by the University of Alabama at Birmingham and UAB Medicine since mid-December, almost 21 percent of those doses were...

The All of Us Research Program offers participants the opportunity to receive information back about their DNA. NIH The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program...

By Samuetta Hill Drew As thousands of Americans, both within the designated COVID-19 vaccine categories and those yet not listed, anxiously await their two-dose vaccination,...

By Glenn Ellis The newest mutations of the COVID-19 showing up in the United States will bring with it, over the next three or four...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times  Sixteen Walmart stores will now become COVID-19 vaccination sites in the Birmingham-Metropolitan area.  The retailer began distributing up to 14,000...

Essence A maternal death is a tragedy. A preventable maternal death is an outrage. The prevalence of maternal deaths in the United States—and the unacceptable...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times  One day ahead of the official opening of the A.H. Parker High School community vaccination site, Birmingham City Schools...