Learn what recent research reveals about new avenues for treatments to prevent and treat heart disease and heart failure.
Appalachians drink more sugary drinks than people in other parts of the country, putting them at risk for health problems. Find out how UVA Health is helping them drink fewer sugary drinks.
See the exciting research happening at UVA Health, and the potential of UVA's new biotech institute to transform medicine.
When you have lung cancer, how fast you’re treated matters. A single-week delay in getting radiation therapy increases a person’s risk for death by 3.2% when they have stage 1 non-small cell lung cancer.
Although postpartum depression is devastating to many families, this discovery could bring hope to new moms struggling with it.
Learn how this important discovery opens the door to better treatments for breast cancer patients.
As the Healthy Balance editor, I thought we published some particularly great research and health articles this year. Check out 20 of my favorites — my personal top stories of 2019.
A new research discovery from the School of Medicine about the effects of aging in our cells could help doctors cure diabetes, liver disease or possibly even reverse aging.
We haven’t yet found an Alzheimer’s disease cure. But our recent research announcements are good progress toward treating the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.
After ten years working in finance, Holly Roach felt something was missing. She went back to school to become a nurse, and is now an assistant nurse manager in the UVA electrophysiology lab. Read about what inspired her to make the change, and what a typical day looks like now.
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