Mills Receives Distinguished Pathologist Award
6/21/2018
By Brian Murphy Congratulations to Stacey Mills, MD, Professor of Pathology, for receiving the Distinguished Pathologist Award, which recognizes distinguished service in the development of the discipline of Pathology. This award, from…
UVA’s PositiveLinks App Improving HIV Care
6/18/2018
By Joshua Barney A smartphone app designed to improve care for people living with HIV has increased users’ consistency in doctor visits and improved their health outcomes, a new study…
UVA Physician Leads Creation of New Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines
6/12/2018
The American Cancer Society has announced significant new guidelines for colorectal cancer screenings, and a major contributor to the new protocol is the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Dr. Andrew…
Can Focused Sound Waves Fix Rare “Giggling” Form of Epilepsy?
6/1/2018
By Josh Barney, Reprinted from UVA Today What was fiction on a recent episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” is being pioneered for real at the University of Virginia Health System. The…
Mobilizing the University to Fight a Common Killer
5/4/2018
By Charlie Feigenoff. Originally published in UVA Today.) Fibrosis is a deadly thread that winds its way through scores of fatal diseases, from pulmonary fibrosis and heart failure to chronic kidney…
Jeff Elias, MD, Honored as Innovator of Year for Focused Ultrasound Work
2/1/2018
The UVA Licensing & Ventures Group has named W. Jeffrey Elias, MD, the 2018 Edlich-Henderson Innovator of the Year, an award given to university faculty members whose research is making a…
Anemia Discovery Offers New Targets to Treat Fatigue That Affects Millions
1/23/2018
A new discovery from the School of Medicine has revealed an unknown clockwork mechanism within the body that controls the creation of oxygen-carrying red blood cells. The finding sheds light…
To Russia With Love: UVA Research Team Creates One-of-a-Kind Database
1/12/2018
With the U.S. State Department seeking its assistance, the pressure was on a team of University of Virginia researchers to complete a one-of-a-kind project that could help save lives…
