Health Beat: Upcoming events at Augusta Health
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The annual free Skin Cancer Screening at Augusta Health Cancer Center. Providers from both Augusta Health Dermatology and Blue Ridge Dermatology participate collaboratively.
Search Results for cancer
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Superhero Night and Paint the Park Purple highlight Hillcats homestand
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After not completing the final two contests of a week-long road trip due to rain, the Lynchburg Hillcats are excited to return to action at City Stadium for the first of seven straight home games on Thursday, May 1.
Virginia all in for increasing diversity in clinical trials
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Governor Terry McAuliffe today announced Virginia’s support for the “I’m In” campaign to encourage greater diversity of volunteers in clinical trials.
Augusta Health board, executives demonstrate commitment to mission
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Being a nonprofit leader means demonstrating a strong commitment to the organization and community being served—personally as well as professionally. That is exactly what Augusta Health board members and executives did.
UVa. football to sponsor fifth annual Get in the Game. Save A Life program
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UVa. football coach Mike London and the Cavalier football team will host the program’s fifth annual bone marrow registry drive as part of the “Get in the Game, Save A Life” program.
UVa. chosen for ‘100 Great Hospitals in America’ list
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National healthcare publication Becker’s Hospital Review has selected University of Virginia Medical Center to its 2014 listing of “100 Great Hospitals in America.”
UVa. spring football game set for Saturday
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The UVa. football team will hold its annual Orange-Blue Spring Game on Saturday, April 12 at Scott Stadium. The gates open at 11 a.m. for pregame activities and the spring game is slated to begin at 1 p.m.Admission and parking are free.
Nibbled to death: UVa. discovers new way human cells are killed
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University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers studying a potentially deadly parasitic infection have discovered an unknown ways that human cells are killed, with the parasitic amoeba essentially nibbling cells to death as a piranha might attack its prey.
Gerry Connolly: Close the Medicaid gap
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Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) today wrote to all 140 members of the General Assembly urging them to “put aside partisan ideology and political posturing to do what’s right for Virginia” and approve a Medicaid expansion plan for the Commonwealth funded by more than $9 billion in federal dollars.
Chris Graham: Why UVa. pays Tony Bennett 50 times more than the average schoolteacher
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So you read the story in the Washington Post about UVa. negotiating a raise for UVa. basketball coach Tony Bennett, and then you scan down to the comments section. And have to suppress the desire to smack yourself upside the head.
