University of Virginia researchers have discovered a technique to reduce drug-resistant staph infection among patients in the surgical intensive care unit.

A few years ago, Charlottesville hardware salesman Kenneth S. Neal was hooked to an oxygen tank 24 hours a day, was expected to die and figured he’d never again be able to play a round of golf, his favorite pastime.

Dave Morris and his wife, Elizabeth, of Waynesboro, received a $1.35 million settlement Wednesday in a case stemming from the September 2001 birth of their son.
Asphyxiated at birth, Hunter has cerebral palsy and brain damage. He will never live independently.

It took 100 years, but Lou Pinto left nothing undone.
He grew up hardscrabble and poor in Hell’s Kitchen, in the long shadow cast by professional baseball’s famous Bronx Bombers, the New York Yankees of the 1920s. He played a little major league ball himself. He raised a family. He retired. He moved to Charlottesville and re-established his life as a sportsman and a volunteer.
Last week, only three months after reaching his 100th birthday, he moved on again, leaving this life for what comes next.
“What I’ll always remember him for is the way he gave of himself. He was always smiling, always positive,” remembered Liz Courain, volunteer coordinator at the University of Virginia Medical Center, where Mr. Pinto offered his services for nearly a quarter of a century. “He was just a tremendous bright spot in our lives.”
Mr. Pinto always looked on the bright side and found positive messages in things others might consider failure.

“When you’re going through cancer, you’re tired and you don’t want to be hopping from place to place,” said Sylvia Tyree, a 58-year-old Spotsylvania County resident who was treated for breast cancer at UVa in 1991 and 1994. “One-stop shopping would be nice.”
Within two years, patients like Tyree will have a more streamlined experience at UVa while getting treatment for cancer, a disease that is the nation’s second leading cause of death.