At Augusta Health, COVID patients still make up a large percentage of the adult inpatient population, 22%. At nearby UVA Health, they account for just 10%, even though UVA is almost twice as large a hospital.
UVA Health is one of dozens of hospitals getting funding to expand their telehealth options. According to a release, the Federal Communication Commission approved an additional 71 applications for funding commitment on Thursday. These commitments total more than $40.4 million for Round 2 of the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program.
Drug shortages are impacting the treatment of COVID-19 patients in Charlottesville. It all comes down to a medication called Tocilizumab, which reduces inflammation in COVID patients. It’s given as a last effort to help keep people off of ventilators, and studies show it works. “This has really forced us to make hard decisions about which patients get prioritized for this drug,” said Dr. Patrick Jackson at UVA Health. “It’s one of our last medications that we have available to really change how the immune system is responding to the inflammation.”
America’s hospitals are undergoing another emergency: The pandemic has worsened a decade-long shortage of hundreds of needed drugs. At the University of Virginia’s medical center, technicians are filling single-dose drug orders for nearly 700 patients. Assistant pharmacy manager Brian Spoehlhof’s job is to find drugs in short supply. “By the time I come in, we have a new list of new medications that are short,” Spoehlhof said. Spoehlhof said he is constantly looking for about 90 critical drugs.
It’s a rare form of epilepsy known for causing uncontrollable seizures in children, but there’s hope following a three-year study at the University of Virginia. Dr. Manoj Patel is part of a research team at UVA’s School of Medicine that’s been working for years with children suffering from SCN8A epileptic encephalopathy, a neurological condition that causes children to suffer sometimes hundreds of seizures per day.
(Podcast) Two professors at the University of Virginia proposed a tax subsidy to increase civic engagement and volunteering in a time of income inequality and political polarization. In their paper, The Charitable Tax Deduction and Civic Engagement, Andrew Hayashi and Justin Hopkins propose that all taxpayers with adjusted gross income less than the national median would get the Community Contribution Credit. Hayashi is a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and Hopkins is a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
UVA researchers have found that the antidepressant best known as Prozac could be the first effective treatment against age-related macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of blindness among people over the age of 50.
ParkMobile has more than 23 million users across the country and is already used in several cities across the commonwealth. The service already accepts contactless payments on the West Second Street Lot and some University of Virginia parking facilities as well as some privately-owned parking lots in the city.
Bertha French and DeTeasa Gathers, co-chairs of the Descendants of Enslaved Communities at the University of Virginia, wrote that the project “will take our city’s painful history and turn it into an opportunity for healing. […] we hope you give us the opportunity to participate in shaping the narrative about our city.”
The overwhelming majority of employees at the top three Virginia public universities who contributed campaign money throughout 2019 and 2020 donated to Democrats, a Campus Reform analysis has revealed. Using publicly available data from the Federal Election Commission, Campus Reform analyzed the donation records of the employees of the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and George Mason University in 2019 and 2020. According to the analysis, University of Virginia faculty, staff, and administrators donated over $972,242 to left-leaning candidates and political committees as opposed to just ...
McAuliffe’s campaign is launching its own bus tour on Friday in Northern Virginia, kicking it off with his wife Dorothy McAuliffe, Attorney General Mark Herring (D), and lieutenant gubernatorial nominee Del. Hala Ayala (D). The bus’s first stop will be at a small business and the second stop will be with actor Blake Cooper Griffin at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia has issued an order in compliance with President Biden’s Sept. 9 executive order involving federal contractors regarding COVID vaccinations. UVA employees must be fully vaccinated by Dec. 8.
The University of Virginia has announced that all employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 8.
The University of Virginia says it is now requiring all of its employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by December 8, unless they have a “university-approved religious or medical exemption.”
University of Virginia officials announced Thursday that all employees must get vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 8 or face suspension or possible termination, as the university works to comply with a September executive order issued by President Joe Biden.
Seventh District U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger says a federal grant will help improve telehealth services across Central Virginia. Spanberger’s office announced Friday that $388,574 is being awarded to UVA Health.
Running a marathon is already difficult, but fourth-year UVA medical student Courtney Duckworth faces bigger challenges than trying to find that runner’s high. “It’s almost like you are constantly your own science experiment,” she said. Duckworth found out she had Type 1 diabetes at the age of 10.
A booster shot assists the body in creating memory cells that are durable and are capable of fighting off pathogens for stretches of time, said Costi Sifri, director of hospital epidemiology at UVA Health. “[Boosters] are basically providing a second signal for the immune system to fully complete its response,” he said. “They hardwire the immune system to respond to that pathogen.”
(By Ram Vegiraju, alumnus) This past weekend I went back to the University of Virginia for an event known as The Young Alumni Reunion for graduates from the last 3 years. It was my first time back in the college setting since graduating from UVA and it was honestly a whirlwind of emotions. Overall it was an incredible experience but it also reminded me of one of the hardest fear-inducing transitions of my life.