Universe continues to exist, laws of physics still apply
While the earth is now approximately 4.54 billion years old, the laws of physics and the universe continue to apply.
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While the earth is now approximately 4.54 billion years old, the laws of physics and the universe continue to apply.
The University Medical Center was recently named one of the top 100 hospitals for women’s health programs by Becker’s Hospital Review.
With the holidays swiftly approaching, feelings of joy, contentment and anticipation are on the rise. However, it can be hard to truly enjoy the holidays when preoccupied with anxiety and fear of the alleged weight-gain which accompanies the season.
Born without thumbs, two-year-old Connor Woodle now has full function of his hands after two operations performed by Dr. Bobby Chhabra, co-founder of the University of Virginia Hand Center.
The University Center for Telehealth was presented with a 2014 Governor’s Technology Award for creating easier access to health care for patients across the state through the Telehealth program.
The University Health System recently began the first clinical trial in the United States testing the efficacy of high-intensity focused ultrasound on treating fibroadenomas, benign tumors found in the breasts.
More than 200 lives have been lost to the most recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa, making this outbreak the worst on record since the initial identification of the disease in 1976.
About 1 in every 20 people in the world experience “disabling hearing loss” according to the World Health Organization. Caused by the death of the hair cells lining the cochlea of the inner ear, hearing loss in all forms is estimated to affect 15 percent of the world’s population. New research from the University’s Medical School has provided a stepping-stone to the regeneration of cochlear hair cells and the restoration of hearing.
Assoc. Cardiovascular Medicine Prof. Dr. Kenneth Bilchick is helping to pave the way toward higher patient response rates to cardiac resynchronization therapy — a method to improve the heart rhythm in a patient with heart failure.
Anxiety, worry, depression, addiction and pessimism — imagine a world in which these disorders could be cured without the use of medicine.
According to the World Health Organization, as of 2013, more than two million adolescents are living with HIV. AIDS-related deaths have increased 50 percent in the past nine years among adolescents, and according to the CDC website, 60 percent of adolescents aged 13-24 who are HIV positive don’t know it.
The development of antibiotics to reduce bacterial infections in the 1940s drastically changed health care. Despite benefits from this development, a steady increase in the number of bacteria that are resistant to various antibiotics have become a major threat to public health.
A recent study found traces of Legionella pneumophila, a bacterium responsible for causing Legionnaires’ disease, in water sources across the United States.
Researchers at the University of Texas have announced the creation of artificial lungs, concocted from elastin and collagen scaffolding and devoid of cells. The successfully grown lungs, however, will not be ready for implantation until after another 12 years of clinical trials and testing.
Tuberculosis, a disease usually associated with the turn of the century and the Great Depression, is making a comeback, with drug-resistant strains of TB recently found across multiple countries. Because of the disease’s global reach, researchers from the University will be teaming up with Russian researchers to look at treatment and prevention.
In 2005, it was estimated that about 75 percent of processed foods in the United States contained at least one genetically modified ingredient. As of 2012, the United States Department of Agriculture reports that 94 percent of cotton, 93 percent of soybeans and 88 percent of corn produced in the United States are genetically modified.
Molière’s quote, “One should eat to live, not live to eat,” proved to be wise beyond his time. In a time of abundance, humanity lives in a state of constant deprivation: we are overfed, and yet nutritionally, starving to death. Our brains and environment have greatly influenced the lack of nutrition and propagated the obesity epidemic.
While obesity rates have stopped increasing as quickly as before, obesity in America remains a prolific problem. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 35.7 percent of adults in the U.S. are obese, and therefore have a much greater risk of developing conditions such as heart disease, stroke, type two diabetes and certain cancers. Wreaking havoc on more than just human lives, obesity is high in cost— around $147 billion for medical care in the U.S. yearly.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, young people are the most likely to contract an HIV infection — individuals under the age of 35 account for 56 percent of new infections and individuals aged 13-24 account for 26 percent.
A recent grant has allowed a Charlottesville HIV/AIDS advocacy group to expand its efforts to provide care to impacted inmates in Virginia prisons.