Children’s of Alabama PedsCast

First Contact for Primary Care is a pediatric migraine action plan established to support community physicians and nurse practitioners in caring for their patients with primary headache disorders.

Dr. Bhatia serves on a committee to Implement personalized pathways for cancer follow-up care in the United States.

Michael A. Lopez, M.D., Ph. D., has received a nearly $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to expand the current understanding of the role of a TGF-beta transcription factor in the dysregulation of microRNA in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.  The goal is to identify aberrant pathways that can be modulated to mitigate DMD pat...

Jeffrey Blount, M.D., M.P.H, is the director and co-founder of the Global Alliance for the Prevention of Spina Bifida (GAPSBiF). This organization seeks to use science-based advocacy to promote global fortification of food and salt with folic acid for the prevention of spina bifida. One of the enabling objectives to accomplish this larger objective was to update and review best available world lit...

Dr. Chinenye Dike will be discussing the new pancreas program at COA and UAB.

Dr. Daniel Feig leads the Food Is Medicine Program at Children's of Alabama. In this episode, he explains how changing a child's diet and eating habits can help treat some childhood illnesses.

In this episode, Dr. David Azkenazi talks about neonatal dialysis practices at Children's of Alabama and how the hospital serves patients through the Pediatric and Infant Center for Acute Nephrology (PICAN) and educates clinicians with its Neonatal and Infant Course for Kidney Support (NICKS) courses.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit created the Golden Week program to improve outcomes for infants born prematurely at 28 weeks’ gestation or earlier. The program has resulted in a 30 percent relative risk reduction in infant mortality or severe intraventricular hemorrhage within the first week of life. Through the Golden Week program, we have standardize...