For more than four decades, the UAB Civitan-Sparks Clinics have played an important role for families, students, and communities throughout the state of Alabama and around the country. Through affiliations with the UAB Civitan International Research Center and the UAB Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, Civitan-Sparks Clinics faculty and therapists collaborate with colleagues and [...]

Selected by Southern Area of The Links, Incorporated to Conduct Childhood Obesity Prevention Initiative The Birmingham Chapter of The Links, Incorporated has been selected to participate in the pilot of the Kid’s Edition Curriculum, developed by the Southern Area of The Links, Incorporated Commission on Childhood Obesity Prevention in collaboration with General Mills. The Birmingham [...]

UAB – In the United States, nearly 49 million Americans live each day unsure about where their next meal will come from, according to a 2008 United States Department of Agriculture report Hunger and the availability of adequate food among Birmingham’s poorest residents is the focus of a new University of Alabama at Birmingham project [...]

Working an exercise plan into your daily routine does not require you to spend “one red cent.” Exercise doesn’t andate that you join a gym or lug around bulky exercise equipment. Exercise can be easily worked into your lifestyle and can help you lose weight and strengthen your heart and lungs. That’s why Blue Cross [...]