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The Making of Medicine

Author: Josh Barney (Page 42)

Members from the Pediatric Muscular Dystrophy Clinic gather around patient Xander and his dad, Coulter Little.
Virginia’s 1st Certified Duchenne Care Center
12/12/2018

Our Children’s Hospital has been named a Certified Duchenne Care Center by Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, a nonproft organization working to end Duchenne muscular dystrophy. We're the first Certified Duchenne Care Center in Virginia and the 22nd in the country.

Shayna Showalter, MD, a breast cancer surgeon, and her husband, Tim Showalter, MD, a radiation oncologist, stand in front of a large machine.
A Husband and Wife Working to Improve Breast Cancer Care
12/3/2018

Tim and Shayna Showalter, who are married, have developed a technique called Precision Breast Intraoperative Radiation, which aims to improve on conventional breast IORT by making it more targeted, more powerful, more personalized and, hopefully, more effective.

Wladek Minor (from left), Douglas DeSimone and Lukas Tamm pose in a hallway.
Three Fine AAAS Fellows
11/30/2018

Congratulations to Douglas DeSimone, PhD, chairman of our Department of Cell Biology; Wladek Minor, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics; and Lukas Tamm, PhD, chairman of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, on their election to the rank of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

James P. Nataro stands in a hallway. He wears a white lab coat, glasses and a blue button-down collar shirt.
In Chile, a Special Honor for Our James P. Nataro
11/16/2018

Our Dr. James P. Nataro was honored in Chile this week for his work battling infectious diseases in Latin America. ALAM 2018, the 24th Latin American Congress of Microbiogy, held a special symposium in his honor. It's a well-deserved recognition, considering his many years of work on serious bacterial infections…

This is the cover of the C-Ville publication. It shows a juicy T-bone steak. The text reads
More Rare Than a Pink Steak
11/15/2018

Usually when a news headline is phrased as a question, the answer is "no" or, at best, "maybe." But the cover of the current issue of C-Ville, Charlottesville's alternative weekly, features a rare exception. It asks, "Could you be allergic to meat?" And the answer is "yes, absolutely," a discovery…

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