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Monthly Roundup: February 2014
News & Events 3/3/2014

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…

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Researchers Find Arthritis Drug Effective Against “Baghdad Boil”
News & Events 2/21/2014

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…

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Monthly Roundup: January 2014
News & Events 2/4/2014

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]…

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Sports Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury: Making the Invisible Visible
News & Events 1/30/2014

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.…

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Monthly Roundup: November 2013 [VIDEOS]
News & Events 12/3/2013

In November, we went in-depth with personal stories, health facts and even tried something a little new. Must-See Video Normally, he's talking politics; Here, Larry Sabato gets personal, talking about how pancreatic cancer has touched his life. Watch Sabato's story. One nurse's story: Find out what happens when a little…

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Deepak Chopra and Arianna Huffington: Mindfulness at UVA
News & Events 10/17/2013

Stress is the main underlying cause of everything from disease to wars in our modern world. That's according to spiritual leader Deepak Chopra, who, along with Arianna Huffington, stood before a large crowd of students and community members at the UVA Rotunda this afternoon, an event put on by the…

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Monthly Roundup: September 2013
News & Events 10/4/2013

It was a month of diverse destinations! We traveled to: the basement of the health library, where we made a video of our deep dive into the historical collections a farm in Nelson County, to track the journey of local foods that reach the hospital cafeteria every day the starting…

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