Similar gene discoveries have led to targeted treatments for other cancers. Scientists say the discovery could be the Achilles’ heel of one of the deadliest cancers out there.
Playing the sport that they love this fall means making many sacrifices – and even then, the players know that there are no guarantees that their season will happen.
If the novel coronavirus lays you low, she is among the doctors you would want to greet you in the ICU.
Rising third-year student Alizé Dreyer and her mother, Ayşegül, are two of the nearly 200 volunteers speaking 30 languages who have signed up to help translate since April.
Though she calls the circumstances “really, really tough,” the director of athletics nonetheless remains upbeat about the future of UVA sports, in both the short and long terms.
In the study, only 1.9% of uninfected household contacts who took a single dose of the drug came down with the flu.
UVA students are part of a national wave of college students donating devices and tech support to senior and low-income patients. Locally, students are focused on the Charlottesville Free Clinic.
A nursing professor studying the effects of a virtual exercise and education pilot program she developed for rural heart failure patients finds that Zoom helps build community.