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New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has revealed the dramatic effect the immune system has on the brain development of young children.
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UVa. will hold the 16th annual Dance Marathon to support UVA Children’s Hospital. Dance Marathon is a Children’s Miracle Network program consisting of over 150 colleges nationwide.
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To provide easier access to comprehensive care for patients with concussions and mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), University of Virginia Health System is opening the Brain Injury and Sports Concussion Clinic on Friday, Jan. 17.
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A high-tech project to turn an ordinary smart phone into an artificial pancreas that could transform the lives of people with type 1 diabetes has received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The money will fund a new network approach to artificial pancreas design using distributed computing between local and Cloud systems.
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To better measure the effects and causes of sports concussions, researchers from University of Virginia School of Medicine and UVA’s Curry School of Education plan to track 130 student-athletes in three sports over the next year.
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There’ve been several articles making the rounds on Facebook and Twitter lately, giving people a look inside a chicken nugget. Spoiler alert: it’s gross. It might not come as much of a surprise to you, but inside those fast-food chicken nuggets, there isn’t a whole lot of actual chicken.
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Mothers who bedshare – sleep in the same bed with their infants – tend to breastfeed longer, new research suggests.
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Research indicates that indeed Americans girls and boys are going through puberty earlier than ever, though the reasons are unclear. Many believe our widespread exposure to synthetic chemicals is at least partly to blame, but it’s hard to pinpoint exactly why our bodies react in certain ways to various environmental stimuli.
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Child poverty has been worsening in this country for a decade, to the point where one in five of our children is ensnared by a web of injustice and simple bad luck that diminishes their present and casts a shadow over their future.
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Today on a conference call with members of the media, State Sen. Ralph Northam spelled out his plan to strengthen Virginia’s public schools and announced the launch of Educators for Northam. In addition, Northam, the Democratic Party nominee for lieutenant governor, called out his Republican rival E.W. Jackson’s extreme agenda that would shortchange Virginia’s public schools.
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