Pre-med students will soon face a new challenge for medical school admissions, with the release of a revised Medical College Admissions Test and possible additional pre-med requirements.
Thinking about the future impacts of rising sea levels can conjure images of submerged streets in Manhattan, as the land barriers no longer contain the Atlantic. While not nearly this catastrophic, the rising sea levels predicted by current data could still prove very detrimental over the next 100 years. Dr. Karen McGlathery of the University’s Marine Ecology Lab leads a particular investigation of the impacts of rising sea levels on coastal wetlands in Virginia.
Last week, the University chapter of To Write Love on Her Arms put on a series of events as part of National Suicide Prevention Week. Though these ranged from a factual presentation from the University Counseling and Psychological Services to a table on the Lawn where students could write down their greatest fears and dreams, they all carried many of the same messages. The most prominent was that the best thing students can do to improve mental health is just to be good to themselves and to others.
When Paolo D’Odorico, professor of environmental sciences, decided to satisfy his hunger to learn about the future of global food trade, he was intrigued by the results of his research. He projected that the current global food trade will not sustain the global population indefinitely, in addition to a startling rise in global food trade in recent years.
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.
A new program aims to teach Medical School students the art of analysis through art.
Getting to Know CAPS Compared to the University Hospital, the Elson Student Health Center looks small and inconspicuous.
With the weight the phrases “medical school” and “law school” carry, it comes as no surprise that when Austin Sim requested the implementation of a dual medicine and law degree program at the University, heads turned.
On August 11, 2014, the news of Robin Williams’ suicide struck the world like a blow to the heart.
The Medical Center’s Office of Telemedicine recently added nine new partner health facilities, including two located within the University, to its practice. The expansion comes courtesy of a $253,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to a Health System press release.
For John Lye, assistant chief of the Lake Monticello Rescue Squad — a branch of the Charlottesville Emergency Medical Technicians group — the thrill of being an EMT is unparalleled.
What’s in a name? Americans nationwide — especially in the D.C. area — have been asking this question for years, with legal and political charges building against the Washington Redskins.
Now a member of the National Marrow Donor Program, the Health System will have access to the Be The Match Registry, the world’s largest and most diverse bone marrow registry. The expansion offers Health System patients with blood cancers like leukemia improved access to life-saving treatments.
230 lives have been lost to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, making this outbreak the worst on record since the initial identification of the disease in 1976.
Not only do Alzheimer’s patients find reality frighteningly stripped away as the disease attacks their memories, but public opinion seems to also fall under the illusion that memory loss is part and parcel of growing old.
Type II diabetes is commonly associated with poor lifestyle choices — principally a high sugar and fat diet or a lack of regular exercise. But recent studies have found an individual’s genes can also play a large role.
In a significant discovery for the medical community, Asst. Medical Prof. Charles Farber has shown genetic variation in the gene Bicc1, which regulates bone mass. The discovery opens doors for future work in preventative diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis — a bone disease which is estimated to affect 9.9 million Americans.
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. Using MRI scans and tracking patients for several years, Bilchick found that the wiring used during the procedure could be optimally placed to help increase a patient’s responsiveness to CRT. “There are roughly 5 million Americans who have heart failure,” Bilchick said.
Type 2 diabetes remains one of the most prevalent medical conditions in the United States, with 25.8 million Americans listed as diabetic and 79 million identifying as prediabetic in 2013, according to the American Diabetes Association. And unfortunately, these numbers are only on the rise.
