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Category: Media Highlights

Awardees: Brodie Resident Clinicians Honored for Exceptional Care

6/11/2019

The Anne L. Brodie Medical Fund Committee annually recognizes a single resident in each of the primary care disciplines with the Brodie Resident Clinician Award. This award recognizes a resident…

Study Suggests an Unhealthy Gut Can Promote Spread of Breast Cancer

6/11/2019

An unhealthy, inflamed gut causes breast cancer to become much more invasive and spread more quickly to other parts of the body, new research from the University of Virginia Cancer…

Ambitious Health Research Collaboration Funded by $12.5 Million Grant

5/29/2019

A groundbreaking research collaboration at the School of Medicine that is shedding light on everything from cancer to diabetes to cardiovascular disease has received $12.5 million from the National Institutes of Health.…

HIV Outcomes Improved by Expanding On-Site Mental Health Services

5/21/2019

Increasing access to mental health services improves HIV outcomes among vulnerable patients, a new study from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests. Based on their findings, the researchers are…

Franck Azobou Tonleu’s Commitment To Service Stands Out

5/13/2019

In the Douala, Cameroon neighborhood where University of Virginia medical student Franck Azobou Tonleu grew up, families were so close with one another that it sometimes felt like everybody was…

A UVA Doctor Reflects on Her Work With NASA

5/6/2019

On March 3, 2016, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly came home from a yearlong stay on the International Space Station, and a young physician-scientist, Francine Garrett-Bakelman, was waiting anxiously. She had…

UVA’s Edward H. Egelman Elected to Prestigious National Academy of Sciences

5/3/2019

Distinguished Research Career Earns Egelman One of Science’s Top Honors Edward H. Egelman, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of…

New Discovery About Dangerous C. Difficile Diarrhea

4/24/2019

A new discovery about dangerous C. difficile diarrhea has identified a new way that the bacteria – and possibly others like it – cause severe disease. C. diff is the most common hospital-acquired infection…