Bias in Healthcare

3/28/2023

Facilitated by Kimberley R. Barker, MLIS, Librarian for Belonging & Community Engagement Description/Learning Objectives: Bias can be both conscious and unconscious and affects all areas of life including healthcare, with…

Date: Apr 17, 2023 - Apr 17, 2023

Start Time: 12:00 pm

End Time: 1:00 pm

Artificial Pancreas Study Showing Improved Blood Sugar Control for Kids Covered Nationally by More Than 200 Media Outlets

3/21/2023

A new clinical study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine indicates an artificial pancreas originally developed at UVA Center for Diabetes Technology improves blood sugar blood sugar…

Last Chance: Vote for U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 Best Hospital’s Expert Opinion Survey

3/21/2023

U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 Best Hospital’s Expert Opinion Survey voting window closes this week! Faculty still have time to vote! Faculty members may still claim their Doximity profile…

Ahmad Jomaa, PhD, is Co-First and Senior Author for Nature Communications Article About the Structure of Bacterial Ribosome

3/21/2023

Ahmad Jomaa, PhD, is co-first and senior author on research published in Nature Communications about the high-resolution structure of the bacterial ribosome, which could lead to better antimicrobial drugs to…

Alexander Podboy, MD’s Study Finds Troubling Disparities in Esophageal Cancer Outcomes

3/21/2023

Lower-income people are significantly less likely to receive a potentially lifesaving treatment for the fastest-increasing type of esophageal cancer – and are more likely to die from the disease, new…

COVID-19 Discovery by Jie Sun, PhD and Colleagues Points to New Treatment to Protect High-Risk Patients

3/21/2023

UVA Health researchers have identified a potential treatment to prevent severe COVID-19 in patients at great risk. The new research from UVA School of Medicine's Jie Sun, PhD, and colleagues…

Artificial Pancreas Developed at UVA Improves Blood Sugar Control for Kids Ages 2-6

3/21/2023

An artificial pancreas originally developed at the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology improves blood sugar control in children ages 2 to 6 with type 1 diabetes, according to…

Research in Motion Video: Jason Papin, PhD

3/21/2023

  We build computer models of networks inside cells. We apply these computer models to problems in cancer and infectious disease to understand the genes or proteins, which are the…