February is American Heart Month, a time for all people to focus on their cardiovascular health.
New insights into the importance of early-life factors on lung health have been unveiled in the most comprehensive study of its kind, led by the Universities of Bristol and Essex.
A single dose of the antibiotic azithromycin can help protect mothers from dangerous sepsis infections and death during vaginal childbirth, a sweeping new international study from a UVA Health scientist and his collaborators has found.
UVA Health scientists have discovered an unknown contributor to harmful blood vessel growth in the eye that could lead to new treatments for blinding macular degeneration and other common causes of vision loss.
The algorithm uses direct muscle measurement, with the potential to seamlessly support a user who switches between walking and running
Until now, the scientific community did not know exactly when or how these viral reservoirs—the existence of which is a major obstacle to curing HIV—are established in human beings.
Yale dermatologists are playing a key role in testing a new treatment for an often-disfiguring group of skin diseases that develop in children.
School of Medicine researchers have discovered a key trigger for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a mysterious condition that causes fat to build up in the liver for no clear reason.
Researchers have developed an inhalable powder that could protect lungs and airways from viral invasion by reinforcing the body’s own mucosal layer.
Scientists have identified the brain structures responsible for compulsive drug-seeking behaviours due to repeated use of cocaine.
A new way to reduce progression of diabetic kidney disease, affecting 40% of people with diabetes, has been discovered by scientists.
Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered a way of improving the accuracy of medical needle-use in surgical simulation.
A large study looking at the effects of fertility treatment has found no robust difference in blood pressure, heart rate, lipids, and glucose measurements between children conceived naturally and those conceived using assisted reproductive technologies (ART).
Medieval doctors saw fertility as having a cut-off point rather than slowly declining with age, ancient medical texts show
Arginine is an amino acid naturally produced by our bodies and plentiful in the fish, meat, and nuts that we eat.
New Cornell research is providing a fresh view into the ways a common chemotherapy agent, etoposide, stalls and poisons the essential enzymes that allow cancer cells to flourish.
Aged bone marrow promotes the expansion of arterial smooth muscle cells and exacerbates the build-up of fatty deposits in artery walls, a new Yale study found.
In a new study from INSPIRE (Innovative Support for Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Infections Registry), researchers compared new and ongoing symptoms and outcomes in both COVID-positive and COVID-negative adults who were tested because of acute COVID-19-like symptoms.
UVA researchers and their collaborators have identified genes that play key roles in the development of coronary artery disease, the No. 1 cause of death worldwide.
Menstrual symptoms reduce the workplace productivity of many American women, with 45.2% reporting that their symptoms require them to take days off, according to a new UVA Health survey.