News & Events (Page 16)

Mary A. Sullivan coordinates community advocacy, education and outreach efforts for the Teen Health Center. She’s provided health education to local students and parents for over 20 years. Here she shares her thoughts about STD awareness. I do not expect to see a proclamation about STD Awareness Month gracing a…

A new antibiotic developed at UVA could treat deadly gastrointestinal infections. The antibiotic kills drug-resistant strains of Clostridium difficile (C. diff), which infects more than 400,000 people in the United States each year, without touching good bacteria. Research also shows it’s effective against other bacterial infections. Researchers next plan to…

Beyond the Hospital: The Less Obvious Things We Do Of course we treat heart conditions, cancer, traumatic injuries, sinus infections. But this month we covered the less obvious services that we offer here at UVA, like: Taking kids with serious burns to camp Testing driving ability with a virtual reality…

The weight that a judge or jury gives the testimony of psychological experts during a trial hinges on those experts’ impartiality. But new research from UVA’s School of Medicine and Sam Houston State University suggests that some experts are actually biased toward the side that hired them — perhaps without…

It’s research that could lead to everything from the development of drugs to treat aging diseases in babies to the redesign of HIV medications to lessen their side effects. Sounds like a stretch, right? But it’s true. Scientists have discovered that defects in a certain protein (Ste24p) can lead to…

Preventing Child Obesity: What Milk Should Children Drink? Children who drink low-fat milk will gain less weight than those drinking whole milk, right? Maybe not. New research from UVA's School of Medicine suggests that preschoolers who drink low-fat  (skim or 1 percent) milk are more likely to be overweight than…

In developing countries, one in three children suffers from malnutrition and diarrhea. The lack of nutrients has lifelong effects. [caption id="attachment_6040" align="alignright" width="225"] Children in Bangladesh, one of the countries UVA researchers visited[/caption] But these problems don’t exist in a bubble. Disease outbreaks, poor infrastructure and sanitation are just a…

Newly diagnosed HIV patients in rural Virginia tend to miss appointments with UVA’s Ryan White Clinic. Why is that a problem? Because the missed time gives the virus a chance to worsen and increases the risk of spreading the virus. To combat this, UVA is starting a program that includes…

A new approach to cancer care at UVA is helping patients heal faster. A typical hospital stay after a Whipple procedure to treat pancreatic cancer is as long as two weeks, but the new approach at UVA is often cutting that time in half. This allows patients to begin potentially life-saving chemotherapy…

It's what most of us wish we could do during the cold months of January... curl up and sleep until spring. So we brought you our series on sleep. We found out the hows and whys of sleep for adults, as well as some crucial information about kids and teens when…