
Research shines positive light on harmful bacteria
Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium known for its ties to gastric cancer, may have health benefits for the human immune system.

Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium known for its ties to gastric cancer, may have health benefits for the human immune system.

Rachel Hargrave studies how language – specifically dialects, such as those in southern Appalachia – connects to one’s sense of home, identity, and culture.

The UVA Health System’s use of focused sound waves to treat essential tremor has been named one of the top 10 clinical research achievements of 2016.

Children with autism spectrum disorder experience internalizing and externalizing problems at higher rates than typically developing children.

The Virginia Agricultural Council has awarded $370,000 from the Virginia Agricultural Foundation Fund for agricultural research.

If diagnosed today, a glioblastoma brain cancer patient has on average a year to live.

Prior to Tuesday’s VMI baseball game against Longwood, both teams donned gold shoelaces to raise awareness for pediatric cancer research.

Mobile phones have increasingly become the repository for the details that drive our everyday lives.

Shenandoah University professor Anthony A. Miller, M.Ed., PA-C, was recently awarded the 2017 Faculty Generated Research Grant.

Jessica Nguyen would have never pictured herself as a medical student a decade ago.
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