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While some people thrive throughout their lifetimes, other struggle. [caption id="attachment_8502" align="alignright" width="222"] Peggy Kern, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, researches well-being.[/caption] Peggy Kern, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, wants to know why. Her research seeks to answer fundamental questions she posed to UVA…

A study questioning the effectiveness of mammograms in preventing breast cancer has recently hit the news and caused a lot of women to wonder what to do. Jennifer Harvey, MD, a UVA radiologist who specializes in breast cancer treatment and research, offers her take on the study and its implications.…

Blog Stories You Might Have Missed [caption id="attachment_8149" align="alignright" width="280"] We also let you know about werewolf amoeba - research that will hopefully help diarrhea worldwide[/caption] From organ donation to poetry, we covered a lot! This month, in honor of National Donate Life Month, we: Went behind the scenes of the…

April is Donate Life Month, and the heartbreaking stories of people on long waiting lists for organs are abundant. And if you’ve been thinking about becoming a donor, we strongly urge you to sign up. [caption id="attachment_8115" align="alignright" width="296"] Chris and Bernard Thisse[/caption] But what if, one day, scientists could…

New research from the School of Medicine suggests a gene variation may play a key role in risk of stroke. The gene discovery comes as part of an investigation into how the body converts the enzyme methionine into the amino acid homocysteine. While researchers have previously found evidence to link…

For Heart Month, we introduced you to some multimedia methods for getting smart about your heart, from podcasts to a whiteboard video to our online magazine, Vim & Vigor. In other news this month, our researchers found a way to treat the "Baghdad Boil," we learned why UVA does not…

The research world calls it cutaneous leishmaniasis, but it's become so common among U.S. troops serving in Iraq that they have dubbed it the “Baghdad Boil.” This unhealing skin sore is caused by sand fly bites that become infected with parasites. [caption id="attachment_7984" align="alignright" width="300"] Some of the UVA "Baghdad…

The most popular blog post of the New Year? A UVA med student, while training on a supposedly healthy volunteer, discovered a real, life-threatening aneurysm — a finding that saved the man's life. [caption id="attachment_7762" align="alignright" width="300"] During training, medical student Ryan Jones (right) caught an AAA in Jim Malloy.[/caption]…

In the last few years, American culture has become more conversant in the language of concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Press coverage of both military veterans and football players experiencing extremes such as suicide has forced these tough-minded institutions to investigate and treat these unseen and often ignored injuries.…

Researchers followed children in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from birth to one year, trying to solve a mystery: Why are oral polio vaccines only about half as effective in developing countries as they are in the U.S.? [caption id="attachment_7847" align="alignright" width="300"] Infectious diseases researchers William Petri, MD, PhD, Nona Jiang and Caitlin…