December 3, 2025 Discovery Opens Door to New Blood Pressure Treatments

School of Medicine scientists have revealed how our bodies regulate blood pressure by turning off a key hormone.

November 25, 2025 New Treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Biomedical research that began at the School of Medicine has yielded a much-needed new treatment for patients with the deadliest blood cancer, acute myeloid leukemia.

November 6, 2025 UVA Discovers Why Alzheimer’s Patients Forget Family, Friends

Important new Alzheimer's insights could lead to ways to prevent patients from losing their "social memory" of friends and loved ones.

August 21, 2025 AI Transforming Mental Health Support for Breast Cancer

From wearables to virtual counselors, artificial intelligence is set to revolutionize mental health support for patients with breast cancer.

July 31, 2025 Heart Failure Drug Relieves POTS Symptoms, Study Finds

Researchers have identified a drug that can provide relief for POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome), a condition that causes heart racing associated with dizziness when standing, among other symptoms.

July 22, 2025 Scientists ID Rogue Antibodies in Patients After COVID

Errant antibodies that act like enzymes could explain low blood pressure and other persistent symptoms that plague patients after COVID.

July 21, 2025 GLP-1 Drugs Fail to Provide Key Weight-Loss Benefit

Popular GLP-1 drugs help people drop tremendous amounts of weight, but the drugs fail to provide a key improvement in heart and lung function essential for long-term good health.

July 14, 2025 ‘Mismatched’ Transplants Now Safe for Blood Cancer Patients

Advances in blood stem cell transplants allow far more patients with blood cancers to receive lifesaving treatment, a study shows.

July 9, 2025 Brain Cancer Discoveries Earn Sontheimer Top Award

Harald Sontheimer, PhD, and Stanford’s Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, have "fundamentally changed our understanding" of brain cancer and opened the door to new treatments.

June 25, 2025 Scientists Discover Unknown Organelle Inside Our Cells

The discovery of an unknown organelle inside our cells could open the door to new treatments for devastating inherited diseases.