Antibiotics are one of the most important items in the doctor's medical bag. They're vital for beating back potentially deadly infections. But they can also make you susceptible to disease, new research from our Bill Petri suggests. Petri and colleagues, including Koji Watanabe, found that antibiotic use interfered with an…
A local group, the Bow Foundation, has donated $50,000 to help our Michael McConnell, PhD, research a genetic disorder so rare it has no common name. That's the news hook, anyway. The condition actually may not be that rare. It's just not well studied. Once researchers start investigating, it may…
Just a quick note to congratulate everyone here at the UVA Health System on our designation by U.S. News as the No. 1 hospital in Virginia for the second year in a row. Six of our specialties were among the top 50 nationally. Here are those rankings: Cancer: 30th Ear,…
Business Insider weighs in. You may have heard mention of the one from Virginia. Another nice recognition for great work from our Dr. Kipnis.
[caption id="attachment_305" align="alignright" width="150"] Dr. Laubach[/caption] Here you can see pig lungs being ventilated on a device called "ex vivo lung perfusion." EVLP, as it's commonly known, is used to assess human lungs prior to transplant. We're lucky to be one of the places in the country that can offer…
This is a freaky one. You sometimes hear that a virus will "die" without a host, or after a certain amount of time outside the body. But there's no real consensus that viruses are alive in the first place. Let's do a little comparison of two well-known disease-causing agents to…