The UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics is helping the NFL make pro football safer. The center's efforts include evaluating the safety of footwear and helmets, along with thigh, knee, hip and shoulder pads. Here's an interesting fact from Jeff Crandall, the center's director: "Regarding concussions, over the years we have…
The UVA Licensing & Ventures Group has named Dr. Jeff Elias the Edlich-Henderson Innovator of the Year for his pioneering work with focused ultrasound. The award recognizes a UVA faculty member whose work is making a major impact on society, and Dr. Elias' certainly is. Dr. Elias is basically the…
Fascinating article in the New York Times today about a significant risk factor for heart attacks and strokes that doctors are only now beginning to appreciate. For a long time, doctors have been baffled by the large number of apparently healthy people, people without risk factors such as smoking or…
The latest projects funded by UVA's Brain Institute are tackling some tremendously important topics, from brain cancer to sports concussions to dyslexia. The institute just awarded its second round of grants, totalling $880,000, to interdisciplinary teams of researchers across the university, including several folks at the School of Medicine. Our…
I have a news release coming out Monday about a new discovery about anemia. (That's right, you're getting an exclusive sneak peak!) In a nutshell, our Adam Goldfarb, MD, and his colleagues have discovered a delicate clockwork mechanism within the body that controls the production of red blood cells. This…
One of our nurse practitioners, Elizabeth Conde Alvarez, can tell you about both the tremendous devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the tremendous kindness of people there, even as they try to survive amid terrible conditions. She recalled how one person graciously offered her juice even though…