People use it for pain, depression, and anxiety – but doctors say many are taking too high a dosage. At UVA’s poison center, doctors are seeing people come in with opioid-like symptoms. “It's an interesting substance that is still being investigated,” says Chris Holstege, the medical director at the Blue Ridge Poison Center.
According to the American Cancer Society, there are two kinds of brachytherapy for cervical cancer; low-dose rate brachytherapy, in which the patient stays in the hospital for a few days for treatment, and high-dose rate brachytherapy, which is done on an outpatient basis, usually once a week. Recently, researchers at the UVA School of Medicine pointed out that brachytherapy runs at more than 2½ times the cost of external beam therapy and said that the higher cost “may be a potential driver of reported national trends toward poor compliance with brachytherapy.”
UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science has been selected to establish a national center to address data bottlenecking. Bottlenecking refers to the limited amount of information able to flow due to computer resources, an issue that has been holding back technological advancement.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County produces more black M.D. and Ph.D. degree-earners than any other college in the country, according to new data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. (UVA comes in at No. 4 nationally.)
John Tunney, the former U.S. senator who looked briefly like the future of the Democratic Party and whose rise inspired the Robert Redford film, “The Candidate,” has died. Tunney had graduated from Yale University with a degree in anthropology and from the UVA School of Law.
Families in Charlottesville celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, legacy and birthday at the Carver Recreation Center on Monday. "Having the elderly here today – our elders and young people and children – being a part of the program and the emphasis on education is very important,” says Carla Williams, UVA’s athletic director. “I think it should always be a part of any MLK celebration."
This week’s Associated Press men’s basketball poll has UVA at No. 2 in the nation, the second time the Cavaliers have achieved that ranking under coach Tony Bennett.
For years, locals believed a 19th-century Newport, R.I., estate was designed by noted architecture firm McKim Mead & White, the same company behind the design of New York’s original Pennsylvania Station. McKim Mead & White historian Richard Guy Wilson, a professor at the University of Virginia, says he believes they were wrong. He traced the mistake to a 1952 book titled “The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island: 1640-1915.”
Josh Bowers, a UVA law professor who is a former defense attorney, told Newsweek that Fields’s political affiliations were unlikely to have played a role in the prosecutors’ case, because Fields is not being charged with terrorism or a hate crime, only murder. He argued that the conspiracies posited by Heimbach, Anglin and others have no basis in fact.
In short, recent economic hardship seems to explain only a small portion of the opioid crisis – and UVA economost Christopher Ruhm, the study’s author, argued that even his findings may overestimate the impact of worsening economic conditions on the epidemic. Ruhm said it’s true Deaton and Case may not have intended their deaths of despair hypothesis to be interpreted as a solely economic phenomenon, but it’s often been interpreted as a one anyway in much of the media and public discussion.
Optimists point out that Virginia’s academic research into hemp could pay dividends. For example, UVA this year researched hemp’s use on contaminated mining land, making it the only institution nationwide thought to be investing in possible hemp applications for waste cleanup, called phytoremediation.
Kids argue at school, push each other after a foul on the court, ghost a former BFF. And parents often roll their eyes when these conflicts happen. But in fact, the way kids handle conflict with peers may have major long-term health repercussions. New UVA research shows that ramifications from schoolyard conflicts may be tied to premature aging and other issues – even tumors, arthritis and cancer – later in life.
Ask your partner to set aside time to talk. Pick a weeknight rather than a Friday or Saturday, says W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia; weekends should be reserved for having fun, reconnecting and maintaining spontaneity, all of which strengthen long-term relationships.
During severe winter storms, the UVA Health System converts about 150 exam rooms – which are in a building primarily configured for clinics – into overnight accommodations, says Tom Berry, the system's director of emergency management.
Nearly a dozen agencies came together Thursday to sign standards of practice and protocol for the Charlottesville-Albemarle Sexual Assault Response Team. The team includes the UVA police department, victim/witness advocates from UVA and UVA’s Title IX Office.
Janet Rafner has actually invested four years trying to find a way to marry art and science. Her research concentrates on turbulence, or the physical phenomenon of disorderly changes in pressure and speed, such as stirring a cup of coffee or air streaming over a plane wing. By creating a game, called Turbulence, that asks players to communicate with shapes and circulation, Rafner wants to master the most crucial unsolved problem in classical physics– chaotic turbulence.
Michael Livermore, a UVA law professor who represented environmentalists in an unsuccessful attempt to block a previous offshore plan, said the Florida decision adds to his view that Zinke is crafting a plan that is arbitrary. “That’s exactly the kind of thing that can get a program struck down, is a bunch of arbitrary decisions like this,” Livermore said.
Much will also depend on which Republicans emerge as leading candidates to replace Royce and Issa. UVA professor Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political newsletter, shifted its 2018 campaign prediction for Issa’s seat from “Toss Up” to “Leans Democrat” shortly after the incumbent announced he wouldn’t run again. But Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the Crystal Ball, said Issa’s departure “could end up being a positive” for Republicans, depending on who emerges to run for the seat.
UVA professor Nicole Hemmer, author of “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics,” said it was “hard to imagine” the site would abandon Trump, and that she expected Breitbart to more or less continue on its current trajectory without Bannon.
Too often, “our own creativity gets written out” in place of consuming media, says Matthew Burtner, a sound artist and professor of computer and compositional technologies in UVA’s music department. With “The Ceiling Floats Away,” a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning former U.S. Poet Laureate (and fellow UVA professor) Rita Dove, and the EcoSono Ensemble (a collective of performers bringing ecoacoustic music to the public), Burtner isn’t ready to let us lose our grip entirely.