Stories of Care & Discovery

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Using Light-Up Skullcaps, Neurologist Is Pioneering an Autism Test for Babies

In Meghan Puglia’s baby lab, mothers and their children have a stimulating way to help researchers learn more about the developing brain – while potentially helping those “on the spectrum.”

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Using Light-Up Skullcaps, Neurologist Is Pioneering an Autism Test for Babies
UVA Health Doctor Wins Funding to Support Inclusive Playground, Overcome Communication Challenges 

UVA Health Doctor Wins Funding to Support Inclusive Playground, Overcome Communication Challenges

A UVA Health doctor has won funding to install a communication board at Pen Park to enable anyone unable to speak to better communicate.

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UVA Health Doctor Wins Funding to Support Inclusive Playground, Overcome Communication Challenges 
A UVA Health discovery of a gene responsible for a type of brain tumor could also lead to better treatments for some kinds of childhood cancer. (Photo illustration by Emily Faith Morgan, University Communications)

GENE DISCOVERY COULD LEAD TO BETTER TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD CANCERS

UVA researchers have found that a gene known to cause a deadly type of brain cancer is behind two other childhood cancers as well. The discovery could lead to more effective treatments for cancers in children and adults.

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Gene Discovery Could Lead to Better Treatment of Childhood Cancers
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NEW SAFE-SLEEP GUIDELINES AIM TO REDUCE INFANT DEATHS

UVA Health experts helped develop the new national recommendations designed to prevent as many as 3,500 sleep-related infant deaths a year.

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New Safe-Sleep Guidelines Aim to Reduce Infant Deaths
UVA Children’s Honored as No. 1 Children’s Hospital in Virginia by U.S. News & World Report

UVA Children’s Honored as No. 1 Children’s Hospital in Virginia by U.S. News & World Report

UVA Children’s has been named the No. 1 children’s hospital in Virginia for the second consecutive year by U.S. News and World Report.

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UVA Children’s Honored as No. 1 Children’s Hospital in Virginia by U.S. News & World Report