General Health (Page 46)

When you have high blood pressure and cancer, it's more important than ever to make healthy lifestyle choices and follow your doctor's instructions.

Figuring out how to support a cancer caregiver in your life takes some consideration. When making a support package, you can include items like a gift certificate to a local coffee shop or a standing coffee shop conversation.

6-year-old Charlie has a rare form of dwarfism, thanatophoric dwarfism. Other kids seemed intimidated by his bulky wheelchair and medical equipment. Watch how UVA students helped him.

Information literacy is the knowledge, ability and confidence to find and evaluate information about your own health. Lydia Witman helps patients and their family members with this every day.

In the 50 years since it began, the organ transplant program at UVA brought people together, strengthening connections between families, friends, doctors, nurses, transplant coordinators and even strangers.

If it’s time for a nursing home or assisted living, learn about researching different options and figuring out how to pay for it.

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) used to be referred to as "the kingdom of the near dead," but treatments have vastly improved over the past 20 years. UVA cardiologist Sula Mazimba talks about current treatments.

You've had an accident. You're unconscious. Who will make your medical decisions now? You can, with an advance directive. Get started now.

Christine Peterson at UVA’s Elson Student Health Center talks about sexual assault awareness and how people can reduce their risk for sexual assault.

Losing a testicle or having prostate cancer can take a toll on a man’s ego. You may feel that testicles represent your masculinity and sexuality. It’s normal when you lose a testicle to worry about how others might view you or to feel concerned about how it will change your…