If the tests are successful, the device may mean the end to multiple blood tests and injections for 1.25 million Americans with type 1 diabetes.

Clinical trials conducted at UVA and elsewhere showed that very-low-intensity electrical fields helped patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma live longer.

A study of head impacts on U.Va. football players lead the researchers to suggest scaling back full-pad practice sessions among NCAA teams, as the NFL has already done.

According to U.Va. Dr. Mitchell Rosner, who chaired an international panel that came up with new guidelines for hydrating athletes, it is possible for athletes to drink too much water – and it can have serious consequences.

The sun-filled home of the U.Va. Children’s Hospital's outpatient clinics and the Outpatient Surgery Center was honored for managing construction waste, limiting water use, reducing energy usage and promoting indoor air quality.

Wilkes, a board-certified specialist in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine now working at Indiana University, is touted as “an ideal fit to lead our biomedical research renaissance.”

U.Va.’s Medical Center Operating Board on Tuesday endorsed a plan to expand the Emergency Department and construct a new bed tower, which will allow nearly all of the hospital’s patient rooms to become private.

The Medical Center will purchase and renovate a 60,000-square-foot building to house urology and cardiology clinics. The location is more convenient for patients, located near major highways and offering free, close-in parking.

Board members lauded R. Edward Howell, who will continue teaching, as a “true leader and motivator and visionary.”

Sutton-Wallace comes to U.Va. from Duke University Hospital, where she served as senior vice president for hospital operations. She will begin her work at U.Va. in July.