The University was recently named a HEARTSafe Campus by the National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation due to its strong commitment to public awareness as well as its extensive Automated External Defibrillator program.
The fact that opioids are so prevalent in healthcare makes them particularly important to study and control.
Do you ever find yourself contemplating the psychology of the U.Va.-Virginia Tech rivalry? Just ask Arts & Sciences graduate student David Reinhard about it.
Recent University initiatives to increase environmentally-friendly practices have led to changes in campus operations, construction and even the University Health System. The Health System has adopted a telemedicine program, which allows patients to virtually visit clinicians without adding to their commute.
A group of researchers led by Dr. Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic and Dr. Desa Milanovic from the University Hospital’s anesthesiology department conducted a study last year that sheds light on a potential link between general anesthesia use in infants and neurodegenerative diseases later in life.
