UVA Earns National Award for Patient Safety and Quality Care
UVA Medical Center has been named as a Top Teaching Hospital for patient safety and quality by The Leapfrog Group, a national organization focused on healthcare safety and quality. From…
Major Epilepsy Study Offers Much-Needed Answers On 3 Lifesaving Seizure Drugs
There are effective treatments to stop life-threatening epilepsy seizures when the initial treatment has failed, a sweeping new study reveals. The study offers important answers about three such emergency drugs…
Faculty Spotlight: George Bloom Seeks to Untangle Alzheimer’s Riddle
Editor's Note: One in an occasional series about University of Virginia faculty members who are helping to make the University both great and good. Today’s installment features biology and neuroscience…
Faculty Spotlight: How One Professor Is Finding Cures With Computer Algorithms
Editor's Note: One in an occasional series about University of Virginia faculty members who are helping to make the University both great and good. Today’s installment features Jason Papin, a…
Seizures in Babies: UVA Doctor Sheds Light on Why They Have Lifelong Effects
A doctor at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital is using an elegant new approach to mapping brain activity to shed light on what happens during seizures in newborns that…
The Meat Allergy: UVA Identifies Biological Changes Triggered By Tick Bites
University of Virginia School of Medicine scientist has, for the first time, identified key immunological changes in people who abruptly develop an allergic reaction to mammalian meat, such as beef. His…
