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Katrina Dix

Katrina Dix is a member of The Pilot's features team, trying to find new angles on issues affecting Hampton Roads. Her previous journalism experience includes award-winning coverage of education; the opioid epidemic; and diversity, equity and inclusion issues, often through a data analytics lens.

Riverside was the first health system in Virginia to make the upgrade, which significantly increases treatment options, medical practitioners said.

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Riverside Health’s upgrade to noninvasive brain surgery machine expands tumor treatment options

August 18, 2024 at 9:49 a.m.

Riverside was the first health system in Virginia to make the upgrade, which significantly increases treatment options, medical practitioners said.

Almost 120 years after Dr. Alois Alzheimer first identified, via autopsy, the characteristic ways Alzheimer’s changes the brain, many aspects of the disease remain a mystery. But Dr. Hamid Okhravi hopes to find a few more clues.

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EVMS seeks participants to study whether diabetes drug can prevent Alzheimer’s dementia

August 5, 2024 at 8:22 a.m.

Almost 120 years after Dr. Alois Alzheimer first identified, via autopsy, the characteristic ways Alzheimer’s changes the brain, many aspects of the disease remain a mystery. But Dr. Hamid Okhravi...

Zackariah Pate, 29, made the third-ever HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive heart donation this month at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

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Historic HIV-heart donation in Norfolk marks the 3rd ever in the US

July 30, 2024 at 12:35 p.m.

Zackariah Pate, 29, made the third-ever HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive heart donation this month at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

Fishing Point Healthcare is a network intended to provide state-of-the-art care to members of any Indigenous tribes as well as all Virginia Medicaid recipients. The clinic is also open to people without insurance who meet Medicaid criteria. A community day celebrated the completion of its flagship clinic in Portsmouth. A similar clinic is under construction in Newport News with a third planned for Norfolk.

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Nansemond Indian Nation grows Hampton Roads health network starting with flagship Portsmouth clinic

July 31, 2024 at 4:20 p.m.

Fishing Point Healthcare is a network intended to provide state-of-the-art care to members of any Indigenous tribes as well as all Virginia Medicaid recipients. The clinic is also open to...

Sentara primary care physicians are testing out DAX Copilot, a generative artificial intelligence program that can filter through doctors’ conversations with their patients to compose a narrative summary of their visits. Health system administrators hope the tech can help address problems from provider burnout to a massive physician shortage.

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Sentara tests using AI to create notes on patients to help reduce physician burnout

July 22, 2024 at 7:37 a.m.

Sentara primary care physicians are testing out DAX Copilot, a generative artificial intelligence program that can filter through doctors’ conversations with their patients to compose a narrative summary of their...

What started as a way to keep houseplants alive in a William & Mary dorm room over winter break slowly grew into a way to support people living with dementia, its creators say. Their invention, MindBot, is a semi-autonomous countertop greenhouse now in use at the Williamsburg Landing retirement community.

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W&M students’ invention started as a way to keep houseplants alive. Now, it’s grown to help those with dementia.

July 11, 2024 at 5:49 p.m.

What started as a way to keep houseplants alive in a William & Mary dorm room over winter break slowly grew into a way to support people living with dementia,...

Free tests are available at seven stores in the area, including two in Chesapeake, one in Gloucester, one in Hampton, one in Norfolk and two in Virginia Beach.

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Huntington Beach in Newport News under swim advisory

June 18, 2024 at 5:46 p.m.

Health officials recorded an unsafe level of enterococci, bacteria which don’t directly cause illness but indicate increased contamination.

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Riverside Health’s upgrade to noninvasive brain surgery machine expands tumor treatment options

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EVMS seeks participants to study whether diabetes drug can prevent Alzheimer’s dementia

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Historic HIV-heart donation in Norfolk marks the 3rd ever in the US

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Nansemond Indian Nation grows Hampton Roads health network starting with flagship Portsmouth clinic

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Sentara tests using AI to create notes on patients to help reduce physician burnout

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W&M students’ invention started as a way to keep houseplants alive. Now, it’s grown to help those with dementia.

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Walmarts in Hampton Roads offer free HIV testing to reduce stigma, encourage proactive care

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‘I didn’t know I was this strong’: Mom delivers triplets months after losing their dad to gun violence

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17-year-old arrested in 2022 shooting death of Newport News teen

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Huntington Beach in Newport News under swim advisory