Gary Owens, PhD, the head of our Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, and research scientist Olga Cherepanova may have found a "fountain of youth" gene that could help prevent heart attacks and stroke. This is the sort of complex science that takes a lot of heavy lifting to explain…
One of the things my department does is try to make it easy for folks to find information about the UVA Health System online. That’s quite a challenge, considering the tremendous volume of information and the huge number of people with stuff they want to share. For a long time,…
If you read enough of my releases on new research discoveries, you’ll notice they’re somewhat similar. That’s because I have an unofficial template. My goal with these is to make complex science accessible to laypeople and reporters alike. Reporters often have short attention spans and a lot of stuff competing…
Good news for people with type 1 diabetes: The artificial pancreas, a wearable device that would automatically regulate blood sugar levels, is entering the final phase of human testing. This is a top-tier research project at UVA and represents many years of work by Dr. Boris Kovatchev and his team.…
Karen Rheuban, MD, has done amazing work in expanding the use of telemedicine across Virginia and beyond. Her efforts have allowed patients to receive care they could never have received otherwise and enabled our doctors to extend their expertise far beyond Charlottesville. In recognition of her many years of good…
You often hear about how we eat too much salt, and magazines and websites often advise us to cut down. For many people, that's good advice -- especially for people whose doctors are helping them control their high blood pressure. But salt need actually varies from person to person. UVA's…
