UVA honored for protecting babies against Hepatitis B
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University of Virginia Children’s Hospital and UVA Women’s Services have received a national award for their efforts to immunize newborns against Hepatitis B.
Search Results for cancer
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Richmond International Raceway honors NASCAR legend Jeff Gordon
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This weekend, the NASCAR community will crown the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion and start looking ahead to what the 2016 NASCAR season will bring.
How low can Lew Rockwell go?
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Hans Hermann Hoppe and Lew Rockwell — the gray eminences of the paleo-libertarian world — cry out “But what about the rooaaads?”
UVA Named to 100 Great Orthopedic Programs list
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The Department of Orthopedic Surgery at University of Virginia Medical Center has been honored among “100 hospitals and health systems with great orthopedic programs” for 2015 by Becker’s Hospital Review.
Proposed Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience expected to attract big interest from undergrads
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Virginia Tech’s proposed School of Neuroscience promises to be a unique program in the nation, one that will study not only disorders of the brain, such as Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury, but also the mind itself, including decision-making, behavior, and creativity.
What it’s like to run your first marathon: I can’t wait to do it again
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Seventeen miles into my first marathon, the 2015 Anthem Richmond Marathon, I was thinking about how I was going to finish. But the sprint for the last mile that I had been envisioning was ultimately out of the plans. Every step was an exercise in just trying to avoid a shutdown cramp.
University of Virginia Health System to be available to 10,000 area Humana members
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University of Virginia Health System and Humana Inc., one of the nation’s leading health and well-being companies, have reached an agreement that provides Humana members in-network access to UVA hospitals, physicians and clinics in Charlottesville, Culpeper and throughout Central Virginia.
Virginia Tech scientists find a small tweak may make a big difference in immune cell development
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Environment can make all the difference in behavior – even at the cellular level. Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have discovered even a small shift in environmental factors can change how a cell in the immune system matures.
Strange lab mystery leads to potential new anemia treatment
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A bizarre result of a routine lab experiment has led researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine to an unexpected new way to trigger the production of red blood cells. This could represent a significant step forward in the battle againstanemia, benefitting people with diabetes, people with kidney disease or cancer, and older people for whom anemia can become a chronic problem.
Virginia Tech study of basic cell processes may inform health, synthetic biology efforts
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Findings now online and slated for the Nov. 5 issue of Molecular Cell by a team of researchers with the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and international collaborators show that the same is true of cells — timing is indeed everything.
