Patel manages the Medical Student Gym — located in Cobb Hall — both keeping the gym clean and creating workout routines for busy students.
Every year, a week of unseasonably warm and dry weather appears — typically in late fall or early winter.
Despite the changing weather, there are many precautions to take to avoid common winter illnesses.
According to Aaron Yao, rural Appalachia has the country’s highest smoking rate, which is coupled with an increasing rate of obesity.
The Center for Global Health and the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center hosted a conference Wednesday that brought together University researchers and a delegation from Oman that included the Omani Minister of Health and the Omani ambassador to the United States.
According to the American Psychological Association and its “Election Stress in America” poll, 52 percent of American adults say the 2016 Presidential Election is causing them stress.
National Sexual Assault Hotline reported 33 percent more online sessions in response to the release of Trump's 2005 Access Hollywood tapes.
The Nursing School’s Compassionate Care Initiative hosted a public lecture last Tuesday with Asst. CCI Director Tim Cunningham, assistant nursing professor, on the importance of storytelling, particularly in narrative medicine, to mitigate compassion fatigue.
The Lars Leksell Gamma Knife Center in the University Health System (UHS) was the first in the state, and one of the first in the country, to acquire Gamma Knife, a technology allowing completely noninvasive brain surgery.
Resumes allow potential employers to identify more about an applicant than just listed academic and extracurricular accolades.
Researchers with the University Health System have developed a new technique to identify and quantify the main causes of pathogen-induced diarrhea, the second-leading cause of childhood death in developing countries.
On Tuesday, the Medical Center Hour, hosted by the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities and the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, addressed the ethical and practical issues of providing undocumented immigrants with health care in a presentation called “Patients without Passports.”
Christopher Stroupe, assistant professor of molecular physiology and biological physics for the Medical School, has found a potential target for the widespread treatment of cancers and, potentially, the Ebola virus: HOPS — a large multiprotein complex — tethering protein and the recycling function of the lysosome.
The World Health Organization declared the Zika virus a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” February.
The Data Science Institute Friday hosted its second annual Datapalooza, a day-long conference designed to connect people currently conducting data-based research at the University, and to let people know about resources available to them.
Last week, To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) hosted a week of events in honor of National Suicide Prevention Week (NSPW). On Monday night, the group painted Beta Bridge with the quote “We’re all broken; that’s how the light gets in.” “We painted Beta Bridge as a club to bond and also spread the message of hope to the rest of the UVA community,” club president Megan Mason Dister, a third-year in the College, said in an email statement.
In March, the National Football League acknowledged for the first time the link between head injuries sustained while playing football and the development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
The start of a new school year is exciting, but can also lead to an increase in stress.
According to the American Cancer Society website, over 224,000 new lung cancer cases were opened in the United States in 2016 alone, and over 158,000 individuals died from lung cancer.
3-D printing technology offers great potential in fields as diverse as space exploration — with the printing of a ratchet wrench at the International Space Station’s own 3-D printer — and even nutrition — with Columbia University’s 3-D food printer.
