Increasing access to mental health services improves HIV outcomes among vulnerable patients, a new study from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests. Based on their findings, the researchers are urging HIV clinics to expand their ment...
The Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery will host a May 21-22 meeting of the Virginia Drug Discovery Consortium at the Hotel Roanoke, with such topics as opioid abuse, addiction, cancer drug resistance, and data science in medicine as topics....
Thermaxx Will Integrate PsiKick Batteryless Sensor Technology Into its Smart Jacket Steam Pipe Insulation Jackets; Company Will Reference Sell PsiKick Steam Trap Monitor...
The Integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV), which aims to improve the health of people across the state and beyond, is seeking nonprofit or government organizations to partner with researchers to address community hea...
Keeping ‘Little Houdinis’ Safe Nurse inventor creates a vest to reduce accidents, need for sedation, among neonates By: CHRISTINE PHELAN KUETER After long shifts working in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at UVA, Tricia Cady (RN to BSN `18) ...
Because of Virginia’s lack of life sciences-focused Vcs, several universities have created their own VC and seed funds. In 2017, VT and Carilion Clinic launched a $15 million fund that invests in early-stage life sciences and technology companies. Th...
On World Intellectual Property Day, UVA LVG recognizes UVA faculty inventors who have earned U.S. issued patents in 2019 to date. UVA School of Medicine faculty Brant Isakson, Boris Kovatchev, Michael Salerno, Spencer Payne, Stephen Patek, Marc Breto...
A new discovery about dangerous Clostridium difficile diarrhea has identified a new way that the bacteria – and possibly others like it – cause severe disease. “C. diff” is the most common hospital-acquired infection; the Centers for Disease Control ...
Long something of a pipe dream for diabetic sufferers, improved versions of three wearable, continuous glucose monitors have been green-lighted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the past year. These devices, developed by Dexcom, Medtr...
For the third consecutive year, a team from the University of Virginia School of Engineering has won the Atlantic Coast Conference’s top prize for undergraduate entrepreneurs, the ACC InVenture Prize....