Autism Risk Determined by Health of Mom’s Gut, UVA Research Reveals
7/20/2018
July 18, 2018, Josh Barney, jdb9a@virginia.edu The risk of developing autism-spectrum disorders is determined by the mother’s microbiome – the collection of microorganisms that naturally live inside us – during pregnancy, new…
Pediatric Oncologist’s Work Among Top 10 Clinical Research Achievements of 2017
6/25/2018
By Dan Heuchert (reprinted from UVA Today, May 23, 2018) A University of Virginia School of Medicine researcher’s pioneering work in childhood cancer has been honored as one of the top 10 clinical research…
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…
