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…
3/23/2016
On Friday, March 18, with a huge roar just after noon, the UVA School of Medicine’s Class of 2016 opened envelopes and learned where they would be heading for additional…
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…
Salmonella’s Strange Recipe for Defeating the Immune System
2/10/2016
Pathogen Uses Its Food to Know When and How to Attack, Researchers Find In a surprising new discovery about potentially deadly salmonella, researchers have determined that the foodborne bacteria has a…
