Here's a quick link you might find interesting. My colleague Amy Marshall has done a post on the latest advances in spine surgery research over at the UVA Health System blog, Healthy Balance. She talked with our Frank Shen, MD, and he has some good news for patients.
Business Insider weighs in. You may have heard mention of the one from Virginia. Another nice recognition for great work from our Dr. Kipnis.
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…
Interesting article in the New York Times on how teaching hospitals, such as ours, might save your life. "For every 83 elderly patients seen by a major teaching hospital, one more is alive 30 days after discharge than if those patients had been admitted to a nonteaching hospital," the article…
This is amazing. Scientists have reported successfully reviving life forms that have been trapped in crystal for at least 10,000 years and possibly up to 50,000 years. The microbes were discovered in giant crystals inside Mexico's Naica mountain caves, a place so inhospitable that it has been called Hell. But…
Did you know that scientists have already genetically modified a type of mosquito to help reduce the spread of malaria? That tidbit's from an interesting article on UVA Today about the future of genome editing. It's a Q&A with UVA public policy professor Randall Lutter, a faculty member at UVA’s…