When Daniel Cox was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, he knew the traditional prescription – “lose weight” – was not likely to work. He may have come up with a better idea.

An antioxidant produced naturally during exercise may offer a way to protect against a condition that currently kills about 80 percent of the patients who develop it.

Melanie Rutkowski is investigating whether the microorganisms that live in our bodies might predict the risk of breast cancer, and help to prevent its spread.

Routine daily lab tests on hospital patients may not add much value, and indeed may do more harm than good in some cases. Medical researchers at UVA are among those questioning the practice.

The tool will be valuable to health care providers in situations where few medical resources are available.

The new approach shows promise for helping young patients with a stubborn type of cancer that has resisted other forms of treatment.

The study sought to identify how exercise works at a cellular level, and found it analogous to the state inspection system for automobiles.

Using a high-tech scientific instrument called “optical tweezers,” researchers can measure minuscule changes in the interactions of molecules in order to predict the severity of a wide range of diseases with a genetic component.

With opioid use under great scrutiny, the new findings highlight the complexities doctors face in managing patients’ pain.

Researchers at UVA and the Cleveland Clinic have developed a way to predict outcomes for cardiac arrest patients after they receive a potentially lifesaving temperature-lowering treatment. The tool can aid families during a stressful, uncertain time.