A new study found that zanamivir can prevent the flu from making the rounds within a family when one member becomes infected. (The New England Journal of Medicine, 11-2-00)
The University of Virginia School of Medicine has received $20 million for prostate cancer research from the estate of the late Paul Mellon.
Medical researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have succeeded in directly linking the brain cell damage and death that are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease to abnormalities in mitochondrial genes (Annals of Neurology, 7-00).
A surgeon from the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center has developed a computer-guided surgical technique for pelvic and hip socket fractures that is more accurate and less invasive than traditional surgery and dramatically reduces the patient's length of stay in the hospital.
For people with Type I diabetes, episodes of even mild hypoglycemia can make driving dangerous, according to researchers at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center.
During heart surgery, an estimated 5 percent of patients suffer damage to the heart muscle when blood flow is briefly cout off. But researchers at the University of Virginia have found that a method of gene therapy used in mice significantly protects the heart during periods of low blood flow.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.-- Researchers at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center have found that a deficiency of S-nitrosothiol (SNO), a chemical that dilates the bronchial tubes, is associated with severe asthma in children. The finding, published in the May 2 issue of Lancet, may help doctors develop new asthma therapies aimed at correcting this deficiency.
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