Targonski named Director of Research for Division of GGPC&HM
12/7/2015
Dr. Paul Targonski has accepted the new role of Director of Research for the Division of General, Geriatrics, Palliative Care and Hospital Medicine of the University of Virginia Health System. "Paul…
Balkrishnan, Cancer Center colleagues featured in Cavalier Daily, UVAToday
11/20/2015
Research by the Department's Rajesh Balkrishnan and colleagues in the Cancer Center has been featured in The Cavalier Daily and UVAToday.
Yan and Colleagues Present at Nephrology Society Annual Meeting
11/18/2015
Professor of Public Health Sciences Guofen Yan and colleagues recently presented study findings to further the understanding of minorities’ survival advantage on dialysis at the 2015 American Society of Nephrology…
Engelhard writes: We are all on the government dole
11/16/2015
Our resident health care policy expert, Carolyn L. Engelhard, writes regularly for The Hill. Read her latest explanation of the intricacies of American health care policy here.
Yan, et al. publish findings shedding light on state-level variations in treatment of kidney disease
11/4/2015
More than 600,000 Americans in 2012 were treated for kidney failure (end-stage renal disease or ESRD). A growing body of evidence indicates that many of these patients could have experienced…
Research Team Applies 2SFCA to Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment in Appalachia
11/2/2015
A research team including Public Health Sciences' Rajesh Balkrishnan, Roger Anderson, and Fabian Camacho recently turned up more detailed evidence of barriers to cancer diagnosis and treatment with the novel…