Google will be represented with an empty chair at the witness table. “Google knows that there is no reasonable regulatory intervention that is likely to affect Google. Google is deeply imbedded in our daily lives and habits," said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies who has written books on Facebook and Google. "I think the folks who run Google are too arrogant to stoop to answering to the American people."
“I’ve been overwhelmed by the fact that they are liberated to make news judgment the only judgment,” says Siva Vaidhyanathan, a journalist who worked at three Texas newspapers and now directs UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship.
Medical providers serving patients with HIV showed gaps in understanding the Affordable Care Act, according to survey results published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. “The ACA’s interaction with the current HIV health care delivery system is complex,” Dr. Kathleen A. McManus, a UVA assistant professor of medicine, told Infectious Disease News.
(Commentary co-written by Kevin Cope, research assistant professor of law and a faculty affiliate with the Department of Politics) The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh are off to a contentious start, replete with protesters and an accusation of “mob rule.” The hearings will likely provide more drama than substance. Republicans will defend Kavanaugh as principled, Democrats will brand him as extreme, and Kavanaugh himself will reveal as little as possible.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has new treatment recommendations for children with concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries, thanks in part to a physician at the UVA Health System.
A UVA physician helped the Center for Disease Control craft new recommendations to help health care providers and parents with concussions.
As children across the country gear up for school and doctors prepare for the fall sports season, physicians will now have a comprehensive new guideline for treating children with concussions, created in part by a UVA Medical Center emergency medicine doctor.
The University of Virginia has approved a funding boost to help pay for a new memorial honoring the contributions of slaves who helped build and maintain the school.
A national nonprofit with the stated goal of “protecting religious liberty for all Americans” is accusing a Fredericksburg apartment complex of blatant discrimination against a semi-retired pastor. UVA law professor Douglas Laycock said the matter appears to be “explicit discrimination against religious uses” in violation of the Fair Housing Act, though a judge could see things differently.
(Commentary) Nicole Hemmer’s book, “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics,” examines the history of conservative anger at mainstream media. I asked the UVA assistant professor in presidential studies about the history of President Trump’s recent feud with Google.
Although the medical community has known for the past five to 10 years that ticks can cause an allergy to meat, case studies from Wake Forest Baptist and the University of Virginia suggest that chigger bites also may be responsible.
Started in 1982, the Chamber of Commerce-led program has trained hundreds of community leaders, including many who have gone on to start their own nonprofits or fundraising projects. Last week — the same week the chamber announced the latest members of the program — a recent LC graduate helped to launch a mini-me version, Leadership Albemarle, which is bringing the same program to Albemarle High School students in 10th through 12th grades. On Wednesday, 15 sleepy-eyed students wandered into the Albemarle High School auditorium, greeted by Dickerson, three other LC alumni and one notable Univer...
A VCU poll found more than 80 percent of residents believe mental health services are crucial to keeping schools safe. But mental health centers and services at colleges, universities and K-12 schools are chronically underfunded, said Dewey Cornell, a University of Virginia education professor. “We are not doing enough to identify and assist individuals who have serious mental health and educational support needs, including those who are at risk for violence,” he said in an email, stressing that school shootings are rare.
"The House battlefield is largely in districts that either Clinton won, or where Trump didn't really run that far ahead. There are a lot of suburban districts where they like Republicans, but maybe not a Republican like Trump," Kyle Kondik, who analyzes House races for the University of Virginia Center on Politics, told Al Jazeera. "And so, I don't think the president is an asset."
While national Democrats and analysts watching Tuesday's primary expect Capuano to successfully defend his seat, the race, in a sign of its competitiveness, has divided the Massachusetts congressional delegation, an unusual phenomenon for a primary without a scandal-plagued incumbent, according to Kyle Kondik, a political analyst and managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
The election in the fall will be competitive in part because Democrats frequently do several points better in general elections than in primaries, said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Kondik rates the district as lean Republican, consistent with other prognosticators. FiveThirtyEight’s recently released House forecast gives McMorris Rodgers a five-in-seven chance of victory.
Antimicrobial resistance is currently projected to be the No. 1 killer by 2050 — "outpacing even cancer" — according to Amy Mathers, assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Why is it, when the nation as a whole is becoming more diverse, that our pool of Supreme Court justices is so limited? There are 237 law schools in the country, yet only three of them are represented on the nation’s highest court. Is that really good for such a complex country to have a high court with such a narrow range of academic backgrounds? All this comes to mind because Virginia is home to eight law schools – at the University of Virginia, George Mason University, the College of William & Mary, the University of Richmond, Liberty University, Regent University, Washington and Lee Uni...
A handful of clinics and hospitals recently signed on to join the growing Apple Health Records beta program in an effort to improve EHR patient access by empowering patients to collect and view their own health information through iOS devices.Health care organizations including the UVA Health System now allow patients to view their information through the feature.
(Crash test video from the UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics is featured in this report) Children should stay in rear-facing car seats as long as possible to protect their developing heads, necks and spines in the event of a crash, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.