“The most striking example was Pennsylvania,” study author Christopher Ruhm, a health economist at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, wrote in the online version published Monday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The state’s adjusted ranking for opioid deaths went from 17th to sixth; heroin went from 20th to fifth. The new rankings were more in line with the overall drug overdose fatality rate, which in 2014 had put the state in seventh place.
VCU Medical Center dropped a rank from second to third in U.S. News & World Report’s list of the best hospitals in Virginia. The Richmond hospital tied for third with Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, behind Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in the No. 2 spot and the University of Virginia Medical Center in the top spot.
The top-ranked hospital in the state was the UVA Medical Center.
Medical researchers at the Yale, the University of Virginia and Boston University tested two different types of educational interventions. The second intervention – a mobile program of informational videos and messages – significantly improved the parents' adherence to best-practices for safe infant sleep.
The University of Maryland Hospital Center followed Johns Hopkins in the Maryland rankings, while the University of Virginia Medical Center was No.1 in Virginia.
At No. 10, the University of Virginia is regarded as “the proudest achievement of American architecture in the past 200 years” by the American Institute of Architects – and for good reason.
Todd DeSorbo, previously the associate head coach at NC State, has been named head coach of the University of Virginia swimming and diving teams. DeSorbo succeeds Augie Busch, who departed for Arizona last month.
E. Massie Valentine, a former UVA tennis player who went on to become a member of the Unievrsity’s Board of Visitors, died Thusday. He was 82.
UVA assistant professor Matthew Gerber has discovered a correlation between Tweets and crime. No, folks aren’t Tweeting that they’re going to knock over a liquor store. Instead, by looking at the GPS coordinates attached to Tweets as well as assessing a heat map of popular locations, police can predict where crime is most likely to happen.
Liberty Counsel is part of the Christian legal movement, a collection of advocacy groups working in the legal, public policy and public relations arenas to advance and protect conservative Christian moral values. "I think that many of these organizations do overreach, do make implausible claims, and do discredit the cause (of religious freedom) when they do so," said Douglas Laycock, a religious freedom expert and law professor at the University of Virginia.
Wall Street regulators have imposed far lower penalties in the first six months of Donald Trump’s presidency than they did during the first six months of 2016, a comparable period in the Obama administration, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. The SEC levied some $US318 million in penalties during the first half of 2017, a search of federal court documents and all publicly available records on the agency’s website and data provided by Andrew N Vollmer, a professor at the UVA School of Law, showed.
It’s hard to solve a problem if you don’t understand its magnitude. And thanks to faulty data collection, America seems to have been greatly underestimating the severity of its opioid epidemic. According to a new study that corrected the rates, opioid mortality rates in 2014 were 24 percent higher than the official statistics. Heroin mortality rates were 22 pecent higher. To correct for that oversight, UVA economist Christopher Ruhm estimated the probable percentage of “unspecified drug” deaths involving opioids and heroin based on the distribution of drug involvement for death certificates on...
The demographic number-crunchers at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service recently released some eye-popping projections of what Virginia will look like in the year 2045.
Neurons in the brain that produce the pleasure-signaling neurotransmitter dopamine also directly control the brain’s circadian center – the area that regulates eating cycles, metabolism, and waking/resting cycles – a key link that possibly affects the body’s ability to adapt to jet lag and rotating shift work. This is according to a University of Virginia study reported in the online edition of the journal Current Biology.
The latest population projections from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service may have been startling in their numbers, but weren’t surprising in their trends: Northern Virginia will continue to grow; most of Southwest Virginia will continue to shrink. That’s been the case for a long time now; the difference is simply the pace at which both those trends are accelerating in opposite directions. Buried deep inside those projections, though, is another, very curious data point. Or, to be precise, 31,579 data points. That’s what the Hispanic population of Roanoke is projected to be in 2040,...
According to author Christopher J. Ruhm of UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, "A crucial step to developing policy to combat the fatal drug epidemic is to have a clear understanding of geographic differences in heroin- and opioid-related mortality rates. The information obtained directly from death certificates understates these rates because the drugs involved in the deaths are often not specified."
A team of researchers from the University of Virginia set out to examine the neurological underpinnings of our so-called body clock. The new research identifies additional neurons that play a key role in regulating our bodily rhythms.
The documents reveal Van Buren’s personal correspondence and numerous senatorial remarks and speeches from 1825. The first-pass transcriptions represent the initial stage of the Papers of Martin Van Buren Project, which is a joint digital and print project that will make accessible about 13,000 documents that belonged to the eighth president. Cumberland University, the National Archives and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission are funding the project, which is produced in partnership with the UVA’s Center for Digital Editing.
A bear taking an impromptu campus tour at the University of Virginia was tranquilized and relocated to a wooded area. The bear, nicknamed the "UVA Bear," was spotted Wednesday afternoon near the Battle Building, part of the UVA Children's Hospital, university police said. The bear was released Thursday on National Forest property west of Harrisonburg.
A black bear spotted behind the UVA Corner on Wednesday is now back where it belongs.