This UVA Pediatrician Can Predict Your Stroke Risk
8/17/2020
Doctors can predict patients’ risk for ischemic stroke based on the severity of their metabolic syndrome, a conglomeration of conditions that includes high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol levels and excess…
Eager To Act, Doctor Partners With Charlottesville Schools On At-Home Stem Kits
8/3/2020
Last month, many University of Virginia health care providers donned white coats and took a knee at UVA’s new Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, protesting racism and inequality and showing…
Everything You Need To Know About Your Smartphone’s New COVID-19 Tracker
4/23/2020
Apparently a global pandemic makes strange bedfellows. That was one of the first things to come to mind following the recent announcement that Google and Apple would work together to…
Q&A: UVA Health COO On The Unique Opportunities Of An Academic Medical Center
4/22/2020
When it comes to fighting a pandemic, academic medical centers like the University of Virginia’s have several unique advantages that can be used to help the community, the commonwealth and…
Timely $1 Million Grant To UVA Health Boosts Ability To Produce COVID-19 Tests
3/30/2020
Since UVA Health began testing for COVID-19, faculty, administrators and staff have been working around the clock to expand testing capabilities. What began just a week ago with an initial…
Biocomplexity Institute Wins $10M Grant To Thwart Future Pandemics
3/26/2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the world, researchers at the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute have won a new $10 million, five-year collaborative “Expeditions in Computing” grant from the…
UVA Health Independently Develops New COVID-19 Tests
3/20/2020
Thanks to a determined, whirlwind effort on the part of a team of physicians and collaboration and support from across the University of Virginia community, UVA Health now is now…
Q&A: What’s Next for Coronavirus, How to Avoid it, and Will There Be a Vaccine?
3/7/2020
As the new coronavirus, known in shorthand as COVID-19, continues to spread around the world, researchers, including those at the University of Virginia, are turning their attention to developing vaccines…
