The NIH funds will help UVa researchers develop new contrast agents that one day may be used during simple ultrasound examinations to detect and treat people with atherosclerotic plaque. The research promises to help people save money on their health care bill since ultrasound is the most economical way to image inside the body.
Scientists at the University of Virginia Health System have identified, for the first time ever, several genetic regions that are likely to carry the genes for nicotine dependence (ND) in an African American population. This is the first genome-wide study of such linkage and included the largest group of African Americans to participate in this type of linkage study.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine's Cell Migration Consortium grant has been renewed for five years. Cell migration is a process by which cells move in the body from embryonic development through adulthood.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have found that teenage drivers with attention deficit hyper activity disorder (ADHD) drive better when they took OROS methylphenidate (OROS MPH), a controlled-release stimulant, rather than extended release amphetamine salts (se-AMPH ER).
Doctors at the University of Virginia Health System have shown for the first time that getting rid of poisonous RNA (ribonucleic acid) in muscle cells can reverse myotonic dystrophy, the most common type of muscular dystrophy in adults.
Last week a new report proclaimed that over one million people per year are armed by drug errors. Research conducted by Dr. Scott Strayer, assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Virginia Health System, suggests that drug databases commonly used by physicians could be partly to blame.
An FDA-approved drug for diabetes is showing promise in early clinical trials in treating people with Alzheimer's Disease.
In the month that marks the 25th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS in the United States, University of Virginia Health System researchers have published pioneering work describing a model system for long-term infection with a virus known as the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), which causes Kaposi's sarcoma (KS)"”the most common AIDS-related cancer worldwide.
Who says the 70's are over. Doctors at the University of Virginia Health System are using technology developed in the disco era to invent a new diagnostic test for clogged leg arteries.
A researcher at the University of Virginia Health System and colleagues have uncovered the secret to the way that Helicobacter pylori infiltrate the stomach lining and cause ulcers.
Research by neuroscientists at the University of Virginia Health System shows that oxygen free radicals are damaging proteins in mitochondria, the tiny cellular "˜batteries' of brain cells.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have made an exciting discovery: a combination of treatments reversed the course of Type 1 diabetes in mice using human-safe drugs. Using this model, the researchers found that a combined therapy of lisofylline (LSF) and exendin-4 (Ex-4) effectively reversed newly acquired Type 1 diabetes, also called autoimmune diabetes.
According to a new study from a team of nurses headed by Melly Turner, R.N., systolic blood pressure can be an average of 14 points higher when taken immediately after arriving in the exam room and sitting on an examination table rather than sitting in a chair with your back supported and feet flat on the floor.
It has been well documented that, across human cultures and in most mammals, males are usually more aggressive and less nurturing than females. It's simple to blame male hormones, like testosterone, for male behavior such as aggression. But maybe it's in our genes, too.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have identified a molecular target, or receptor, for potential drugs to treat acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a sudden and life-threatening failure of the lung.
Wladek Minor's 1997 paper, "Processing of X-ray Differentiation Data Collected in Oscillation Mode," is now the second-most cited scientific paper in the world in the last ten years, according to The Scientist magazine. Minor is from the University of Virginia.
According to recent research, your mother was always right when she told you not to eat or drink anything before taking your temperature. On average, study participants consuming cold beverages required 15 minutes for their temperature to return to baseline, while those consuming hot beverages returned to baseline after 23 minutes.
Many herbal remedies could cause a toxic reaction when combined with other prescription or over-the-counter medicines.
Dr. Mark Okusa, a nephrologist and professor of medicine at the University of Virginia Health System, has won two grants totaling $1.2 million over four years to test whether certain drugs can interrupt the inflammatory process that occurs in diabetic kidney disease.
Doctors have opened a new clinical trial to try and help people with emphysema breathe better. The study will test the safety and effectiveness of a bronchoscopic valve, an experimental device designed to channel air to healthier portions of the lung.
For the third year in a row, the University of Virginia cardiology and heart surgery program has been chosen as one of the top 100 in the nation by the healthcare consulting company, Solucient, LLC.
A carbohydrate isolated from the liver lowers blood sugar levels after it is injected into diabetic rats, according to research carried out by a team of experts at the University of Virginia Health System.
Jonathan Moreno, PhD, Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia Health System, has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Experts say up to two percent of the U.S. population suffers from neuropathic pain. But this pain generally responds poorly to analgesics and other standard treatment and get worse over time, causing permanent disability in some people. Now there may be new hope for these pain sufferers.
Digital mammography that uses computers to detect breast cancer found significantly more cancers than screen film mammography in women 50 and younger, premenopausal and perimenopausal women, and women with dense breasts, according to results from one of the largest breast cancer screening studies ever performed.
National and international scientists, including those from the University of Virginia Health System, will announce findings from a significant number of studies showing that adult stem cells from adipose tissue (fat) could eventually be used to treat injured or damaged tissues.
The Lars Leksell Gamma Knife center at the University of Virginia Health System set a milestone on August 1, when 75-year-old Macel Morris of Charleston, W. Va., became the 5,000th patient to undergo Gamma Knife treatment at UVa's University Hospital.
A Roanoke, Va. woman is the first U. S. participant in an international, multi center trial of a new drug that shows promise in treating complications from a stroke.
The University of Virginia Health System is one of eight hospitals in the United States winning recognition from The American Medical Association for developing exemplary programs to improve communication between health care professionals and patients.
In a two-hour procedure, a 72-year-old retired mail carrier from Etowah, North Carolina became the first person in the United States to be implanted with a new, high-tech graft just approved by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration to treat potentially-deadly aneurysms in the thoracic aorta without open surgery.
What makes a man behave like a man and a woman a woman? The answer may be partly in your genes. Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have discovered a new twist on the role that estrogens play in the development of behavioral differences between males and females.
Researchers have succeeded in sequencing the genome of a parasitic amoeba called Entamoeba histolytica. The amoeba infects about 50 million people around the world with a disease called amebiasis, causing up to 100,000 deaths a year, usually in developing countries with poor sanitary conditions.
The new Chief of Cardiology at the University of Virginia Health System and Co-Director of the U. Va. Heart and Vascular Center, effective Jan. 1, recommends the following resolutions for every adult to keep their heart disease-free in the New Year and beyond.
After five years of sophisticated tests, scientists at the University of Virginia Health System have discovered that a compound, derived from a rare South American plant, stops the growth of human breast cancer cells in laboratory cultures.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have unraveled one mystery about what histones accomplish in the complex chemical cascade that determines the function of a cell in the body.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have discovered a new molecular target for future research on regenerating and replacing inner ear hair cells.
A Charlottesville area woman may no longer need the insulin shots she's been giving herself every day for 32 years. Lori Ratliff of Ivy became Virginia's first recipient of an islet cell transplant.
It's well known that drinking red wine in moderation can have some health benefits, mainly attributed to a compound called resveratrol. Now, scientists have discovered how. They found how resveratrol helps to starve cancer cells by inhibiting the action of a key protein that feeds them.
An experimental therapy that combines an antibiotic with a synthetic anti-inflammatory drug, designed at the University of Virginia Health System, has shown early promise in dramatically reducing death from sepsis, a life-threatening infection that kills 210,000 Americans each year.
Disrupting a gene called Stat-4 suppresses the activation of white blood cells involved in the development of type 1 diabetes, say researchers.
Sequencing and mapping the human genome was the first essential step for scientists to study where genes for diseases like cancer are located. But in studies to identify the complex factors that make those genes active or inactive, molecular genetic researchers at the University of Virginia have discovered a new area outside the DNA itself that may show existence of another type of genetic code.
A new study by U.Va. researchers shows that insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes patients experience slower brain function and other short-term symptoms from too much blood sugar, or hyperglycemia.
Finding an improved imaging technique to detect lung diseases at an earlier stage when treatment is more likely to be effective, is emerging through leading research by University of Virginia Health System professors.
A highly sensitive method for detecting residual bladder cancer present in a patient's lymph node at the time of surgery has been discovered through a study conducted at the University of Virginia Health System and the University of Western Ontario.
Lower doses of hormone replacement therapy are just as effective at reducing hot flashes and vaginal changes in postmenopausal women as currently prescribed doses, according to a University of Virginia, HSC study.
All but two of the newer anti-depressant drugs cause significant sexual dysfunction, according to results of a study conducted by the associate professor and vice chairman, Department of Psychiatric Medicine, University Virginia Health System and a primary care physician in New Baltimore, Mich.
Children exposed to domestic cats have a decreased risk for developing asthma according to a new study from the University of Virginia Health System. (Lancet, 3-01)
University of Virginia researchers published results from one of the first clinical research studies conducted on magnet therapy for pain. (J. of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2-22-01)
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have identified a new gene, SPAN-X, that could eventually lead to better diagnosis and treatment for certain cancers. (Biology of Reproduction, 02-01)
Medical researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have developed a method that may alert physicians to early stages of severe infection in newborn infants. (Pediatrics, 12-00)
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