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In Good Health: The nation’s hydration fixation
Everything is bigger in America. The portions, the cars, and now, our water bottles.
Does it seem like everyone is carrying around a 30-ounce tumbler? The reusable water bottle industry is a multi-billion dollar business. But don’t forget about plastics. The sales of single-use bottled water also continue to rise.
We’re a nation intent on hydration. But how much of the hype around water is marketing versus science?
We discuss hydration with the experts for this show in our In Good Health series. Listen
Mark Okusa, MD, Professor in the Dept. of Medicine, Div. Chief of Nephrology, investigates acute kidney injury and devises better therapeutic options to treat this disorder.
The laboratory of Rahul Sharma, PhD, an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology’s Center for Immunity Inflammation and Regen-erative Medicine, was awarded a new threeyear grant from Breakthrough T1D, formerly JDRF – Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, to study islet transplantation in patients with
Type-1 diabetes (T1D).
This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Anita Vincent Johnson, a nephrologist with UVA Health, who joins us during National Kidney
Month for a conversation about her work, the UVA Kidney Disease Screening and Awareness Program, and more.
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UVA Dialysis Program, led by Lesley McPhatter and the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, tackles food insecurity in patients with kidney failure. In March 2020, the University of Virginia dialysis program launched an on-site food pharmacy program in partnership with the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.
Drs. Tushar Chopra and Varsha Pothula explain the importance of the program.
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Sarthak Virmani, MBBS, an assistant professor of medicine in nephrology, was elected as the co-chair of the Trainee and Young Faculty Community of Practice (TYF COP) at the American Society of Transplantation (AST). Dr. Virmani will serve for three years: first as cochair, then as chair and past-chair.
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New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has shown how our DNA determines our ability to fight viruses, revealing that many genes work together to control immune cells, tissue inflammation, and even our body weight after infection. The research could one day allow doctors to tweak immune cells to enhance their ability to destroy viruses. It may also assist in developing new vaccines, among other benefits.