April 25, 2024 New Tool to Boost Battle Against Childhood Undernutrition Childhood undernutrition contributes to almost half of all deaths of children under 5.
April 18, 2024 SHINE Trial Sheds Light on Deadly Stroke Complication A nationwide trial led by UVA Health provides answers on how best to manage stroke patients' blood sugar after clot-busting treatment.
April 15, 2024 Artificial Intelligence Tool to Improve Heart Failure Care The tool harnesses machine learning and artificial intelligence to determine a patient's risk of unfavorable heart failure outcomes.
April 8, 2024 Top Nanotechnology Expert to Lead UVA’s NanoSTAR Institute Evan A. Scott, PhD, comes to UVA from Northwestern University, where he has conducted groundbreaking nanotechnology research.
April 8, 2024 Elias Named to Modern Healthcare’s 2024 Innovators List UVA neurosurgeon W. Jeffrey Elias, MD, has been recognized by a leading healthcare publication as one of its Innovators for 2024.
April 3, 2024 New Plan Seeks to Improve Cancer Prevention, Clinical Trial Access Two UVA Health experts have identified simple steps to improve cancer prevention for millions of rural and medically underserved Americans, as well as increase access to clinical trials that are the proving grounds for cutting-edge treatments.
March 28, 2024 New Advance Against a Form of Heart Failure Prevalent in Men School of Medicine researchers have discovered a gene on the Y chromosome that contributes to the greater incidence of heart failure in men.
March 27, 2024 Enhanced Melanoma Vaccine Offers Improved Survival Interestingly, the benefit of the second-generation melanoma vaccine was greater for male patients than female patients.
March 26, 2024 COVID-19 Antibody Discovery Could Explain Long COVID Surprising findings from UVA Health could lead to new treatments for COVID-19, long COVID and possibly other viruses.
March 21, 2024 Multiple Unsafe Sleep Practices Found in Most Sudden Infant Deaths More than three-quarters of Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths analyzed in a new study involved multiple unsafe sleep practices.