
Potential target for treating and diagnosing Lyme disease discovered
You don’t have to go far to find ticks. Just step outside and look for some grass. Look to the top of the shiny, green blade – usually ankle high. A tick might be there, waiting.

You don’t have to go far to find ticks. Just step outside and look for some grass. Look to the top of the shiny, green blade – usually ankle high. A tick might be there, waiting.

25th District Del. Chris Runion has announced the hiring of a new legislative director, Chris Faraldi.

The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia has awarded almost $80,000 in seed funding across two community-focused projects.

UVA doesn’t have any trouble with money. The school has a $14.5 billion endowment. Alums are always writing checks – $50 million here for a new performing arts center, $35 million there for a basketball arena.

VCU Health will go live with Epic, a modern electronic health record widely used by academic health systems, hospitals and large medical practices nationwide, on Saturday.

Gov. Ralph Northam on Tuesday appointed Fran Bradford as Secretary of Education.

At first glance, Antarctica seems inhospitable. Known for howling gales and extremely cold temperatures, the continent is blanketed with a mile-thick ice shelf. Occasional elephant seals and seabirds fleck the glacial shorelines.

On Nov. 6, members of Virginia Tech’s Black Cadet Organization presented descendants of Thomas Fraction with a certificate of honorable discharge 155 years after he was demoted and discharged without cause from the Union Army.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced additional appointments on Friday.

Close to 1,000 residents of the Shenandoah Valley participated in this year’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s Greater Augusta at Gypsy Hill park on Oct. 9 and the Walk in Harrisonburg on Oct. 16 at James Madison University’s U-Park.
AFP will break down local, Virginia and national races in the battle for the control of Congress Tuesday night.