Potential ‘Fountain of Youth’ Gene May Offer Way to Block Detrimental Effects of Aging
5/20/2016
A gene that scientific dogma insists is inactive in adults actually plays a vital role in preventing the underlying cause of most heart attacks and strokes, researchers at the University…
Medical Student Gets Dirty for a Cause
5/17/2016
University of Virginia medical students are an impressive lot. As if being in med school is not challenging enough, many pursue extracurricular activities that give back to the community. Carl…
Rescue in the Appalachians: Students in Wilderness Medicine Course
5/4/2016
The UVA School of Medicine offers a unique course in Wilderness Medicine which includes real life rescue simulations, such as rescuing a fallen, unresponsive hiker from the Appalachian Mountains, as…
Medical Students and National Donate Life Month
4/29/2016
April is National Donate Life Month and the Transplantation Interest Group, a student-run group whose goal is to “advance knowledge and awareness about transplantation among medical students and empower them…
UVA Med Student Plays Ukulele to Comfort Patients
3/30/2016
Thomas Ball, as a third year of medical school, found himself standing in a patient’s doorway, holding a ukulele. He scanned the room for IV poles and active interventions for…
Blue Ridge Poison Center: More Than a Hotline
3/23/2016
More Than a Hotline! Blue Ridge Poison Center Announces Poisoning Prevention Week; releases video to encourage programming the number into your phone: 1-800-222-1222. Answering calls about possible poison exposures…
New Blood Test at UVA Offers Better Monitoring of Diabetes
3/21/2016
Improved A1C Test Can Also Predict Diabetes Risk, Detect Blood Abnormalities A new, more precise version of the A1C test, which is used to monitor diabetes over time, is now…
Sweeping Review of Human Genome IDs Stroke Risk Genes
2/23/2016
Largest Study of Its Kind Targets Debilitating and Often Fatal Ischemic Strokes Researchers seeking to better understand how our genes contribute to stroke risk have completed what is believed to…
