
UVA Study: Unhealthy gut promotes spread of breast cancer
New research from the UVA Cancer Center suggests that unhealthy, inflamed gut causes breast cancer to become much more invasive and spread more quickly to other parts of the body.

New research from the UVA Cancer Center suggests that unhealthy, inflamed gut causes breast cancer to become much more invasive and spread more quickly to other parts of the body.

UVA Health System is joining a coalition of healthcare organizations to improve vaccination rates in western Virginia for human papillomavirus (HPV), a leading cause of cancer.

A groundbreaking research collaboration at the UVA School of Medicine that is shedding light on everything from cancer to diabetes to cardiovascular disease has received $12.5 million from the National Institutes of Health.

Bryce Hall is a star on the football field as a rising fourth-year at UVA. Also excelling in the classroom, Hall has been awarded the prestigious T. Rodney Crowley Jr. Memorial Scholarship.

Scientists at the UVA School of Medicine have discovered a defect in immune cells known as “killer T cells” that explains their inability to destroy cancer tumors.

A new program will use telehealth to bring together a UVA Health System team with primary care providers in the Appalachian region of Virginia to improve lung disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

A scientist at the UVA School of Medicine has received a prestigious three-year, $1 million award from the William M. Keck Foundation to develop a new and better way to map out the submicroscopic world.

The University of Virginia Licensing & Ventures Group has named Lee M. Ritterband, Ph.D., the 2019 Edlich-Henderson Innovator of the Year.

UVA Medical Center has been named among 100 hospitals and healthcare systems with great neurosurgery and spine programs by Becker’s Hospital Review.

A UVA School of Medicine discovery about the role of the brain’s cleaning system in aging and Alzheimer’s disease has been recognized by the National Institutes of Health as one of 2018’s most promising medical advances.