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The Making of Medicine

Author: Josh Barney (Page 56)

Victor Laubach is working to transform lung transplantation
Meet Victor Laubach, Lung Transplant Researcher
1/5/2018

My colleagues over at Healthy Balance, the UVA Health System's blog, have done a nice interview with our Victor Laubach, PhD. Dr. Laubach is doing some tremendously cool work that could one day let us rehabilitate unusable lungs -- currently, pretty much all lungs from donors who die outside a…

Dr. Robert Sinkin, dressed as Santa, makes his annual visit to the NICU.
The Secret Origin of Santa Claus
12/15/2017

Turns out he's Jewish. Our Santa, anyway. Even though he doesn't celebrate Christmas, our Dr. Robert Sinkin has donned the jolly red suit each year for the last 12 years to bring a little happiness to families that could definitely use some. UVA Today has done a tremendously charming piece…

Is money compromising cancer care?
Is Money Compromising Cancer Care?
12/12/2017

A troubling new study from our Timothy Showalter, MD, points out that providing brachytherapy for advanced cervical cancer actually costs hospital money. And that may explain the declining use of it at many facilities, even though it's the gold-standard treatment. “Studies have time and time again shown that brachytherapy is…

Robert Carey, MD, was a lead architect of new guidelines on high blood pressure.
Millions More Now Have High Blood Pressure
12/11/2017

Our Robert Carey, MD, was a lead architect of new guidelines that lower the definition of high blood pressure. The change means almost half of U.S. adults have high blood pressure. Dr. Carey, the former dean of the School of Medicine, talked to the New York Times for its story…

Dean Peggy Shupnik announces the new round of Pinn Scholars.
Helping Researchers Do Great Work
12/6/2017

In addition to doing science, researchers spend a lot of time and effort trying to get funding to do their science. A program at the School of Medicine is changing that for some faculty who are doing exciting work. The Pinn Scholars program is named for Vivian Pinn, MD, whom…

Jayakrishna Ambati, MD, and Nagaraj Kerur, PhD, have discovered the trigger for the damaging inflammation that causes macular degeneration.
New Hope in the Battle Against Macular Degeneration
12/1/2017

Macular degeneration robs millions of people of their sight, and now we know what triggers the inflammation that causes it. That raises the exciting possibility we can stop it. Our Jayakrishna Ambati, MD, (at left in the picture) and Nagaraj Kerur, PhD, have identified a specific enzyme that triggers the…

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