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July 25, 2018 Brain Discovery Could Block Aging’s Terrible Toll on the Mind

Aging vessels connecting the brain and the immune system play critical roles in both Alzheimer’s disease and the decline in…

July 23, 2018 Discovery Reveals How Obesity Causes Diseases — and 2 Ways to Stop It

New research explains why obesity causes harmful inflammation that can lead to diabetes, clogged arteries and other health problems. Doctors…

July 17, 2018 Autism Risk Determined By Health of Mom’s Microbiome, UVA Finds

• The mother’s microbiome, the collection of microscopic organisms that live inside us, determines the risk of autism and other…

July 16, 2018 UVA Earns Three National Awards for Quality Heart Attack Care

University of Virginia Health System has received three national awards from the American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of…

July 13, 2018 UVA Radiology Opens Northern Virginia Vein and Vascular Care Clinic

University of Virginia Health System is now seeing patients at UVA Radiology Vein and Vascular Care Gainesville, which provides leading-edge…

July 6, 2018 UVA Develops Way to Create Drugs Without Side Effects

A new technique for precisely targeting molecules within cells is paving the way for safer drugs that are free of…

July 3, 2018 UVA Heart Failure Program Honored Nationally for Quality Care

For meeting nationally recognized patient-care standards from the American Heart Association, the heart failure program at the University of Virginia Health…

June 28, 2018 As Asylum Requests Rise, Doctors Have Important Role

With applications for asylum in the United States increasing sharply, a new paper from a team of asylum medicine and…

June 26, 2018 Six UVA Children’s Hospital Specialties Nationally Ranked by U.S. News & World Report

Six specialties at University of Virginia Children’s Hospital earned a top-50 national ranking in the 2018-2019 “Best Children’s Hospitals” guide from…

June 25, 2018 UVA Reveals True Nature of Cells Blamed in Alzheimer’s, Neurodegenerative Diseases

Immune cells commonly blamed in Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases are actually precision cleaning machines protecting the central nervous system,…