A new artificial intelligence technology for heart imaging can potentially improve care for patients, allowing doctors to examine their hearts for scar tissue while eliminating the need for contrast injections required for traditional cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging. The team of researchers University of Virginia who developed the technology have reported the success of the approach.
An international research team at the University of Virginia University Hospital has developed an artificial intelligence technology to improve heart imaging. The Virtual Native Enhancement approach aims to replace traditional cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging, which requires contrast injections.
New research has revealed that the Pfizer vaccine may not be as effective on older adults as it is on younger recipients. Researchers from the University of Virginia tested the blood of 167 people who received Pfizer or Moderna vaccines and found Pfizer recipients aged 50 and over had fewer antibodies in their system than those aged under 50. The researchers found no age-related difference in antibody levels for Moderna recipients, and say antibody levels overall were greater for Moderna recipients than Pfizer.
On Thursday, another JAMA study by University of Virginia researchers also found that Moderna’s vaccine resulted in higher antibody levels.
A new University of Virginia study looked at the body's antibody response to the Pfizer and the Moderna COVID vaccines. It included 167 UVA employees, 79 of whom had gotten the Pfizer vaccine while 88 got the Moderna one.
A new study out of the University of Virginia School of Medicine shows that antibody levels in recipients of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine were slightly higher than recipients of the Pfizer vaccine. The difference was mostly noted in relatively older subjects.
Jesse Pritchard and his crew are bringing a new football season to life at the University of Virginia’s Scott Stadium. “I’m going to say we spend roughly 150 man hours a week painting for the games, prepping each football game week,” Pritchard said. He is the turf manager, overseeing a crew of four of the hardest working guys on UVA Grounds.
The University of Virginia has extended its masking policy until Oct. 1. According to a message sent to the UVA community on Thursday, public health officials are monitoring COVID-19 conditions in the Charlottesville area.
University of Virginia officials recommend football fans mask up for Saturday’s season opener and will require masks in indoor areas of the stadium in hopes of running an end-around COVID-19’s delta variant.
(Transcript) Movie star Zhao Wei, also known as Vicki Zhao, has seen her work disappear from the internet as China continues to tighten restrictions on figures with a lot of social influence. Among those interviewed is Aynne Kyokas, a UVA expert on Chinese media, who said, “I see this as part of a larger pressure campaign by the Chinese government to crack down on private entities that can wield a lot of social power.”
“Immigration (after 9/11) was no longer a question about migration or who we are as a country or about labor market competition. It was a security issue; we saw the ‘securitization’ of immigration,” UVA political professor David Leblang says. “That changed the nature of immigration enforcement quite dramatically.”
The lack of a central enforcement authority has thrown into confusion questions over who would be sued to stop the law. The law “clearly violates the federal Constitution as it’s currently interpreted,” said Douglas Laycock, a UVA constitutional law professor. “The problem with the case is there no one to sue,” said the professor, who described the Texas statute as “exceedingly clever.”
The Jets owned the first overall pick in the 1997 NFL Draft. And even though James Farrior was a first-team All-ACC linebacker as a senior at the University of Virginia, there wasn’t much speculation he’d be New York’s top choice.
“Social identities remain but as one is turned into a consumer, they are increasingly shaped and conditioned by patterns of consumption. We identify our real selves by the choices we make from the images, fashions, and lifestyles available in the market, and these in turn become the vehicles by which we perceive others and they us,” writes Joseph E Davis, University of Virginia sociologist in his essay “The Commodification of the Self.”
We have been talking about tick bite meat allergy for at least a decade. That’s when we started interviewing Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills. This University of Virginia researcher has been described by his colleagues as “a living legend” and “the most insightful clinical investigator of allergic diseases of his generation” (UVA Today, Feb. 8, 2019). Dr. Platts-Mills told us how a tick bite could trigger a serious allergic reaction to red meat (alpha-gal syndrome).
“The Supreme Court has just given Terry McAuliffe a gift two weeks before early voting starts,” said Larry Sabato, the founder and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and a longtime watcher of the commonwealth’s politics. “The problem for Youngkin is that Virginia is decidedly pro-choice, especially in vote-rich Northern Virginia. Independents are mainly pro-choice, too.”
University of Virginia Police Captain Bryant Hall is putting his police badge aside, and his teaching hat on, as Greer Elementary School’s newest tutor. “It actually changed my life,” Hall said. “This program is near and dear to me because of the impact that I was able to have on elementary age students.”
Richard Schragger, the Perre Bowen Professor of Law at University of Virginia’s School of Law, said there are few options for the plaintiffs. While he opined they could try and argue a constitutional takings claim and take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, they would have to start back in the lower state courts, which may use Thursday’s opinions as grounds to deny the claims from the outset. “The court’s strong assertion that the plaintiffs’ theory, that they could perpetually bind the government to engaging in a certain kinds of speech, is contrary to public policy,” Schragger, ...
The report alleges the prime minister had multiple phone calls, including on the morning of the assassination, with Joseph Badio, a former justice official now at the center of the murder investigation as a suspect. When Henry was asked about the calls with Badio in a recent radio interview, he said he knew Badio and defended him. “The idea of defending the guy publicly is peculiar, and dismissing the whole possibility that he might have been involved is clearly an interference into the investigation,” said Robert Fatton Jr., a Haiti expert and professor of government and foreign affairs at th...
Dr. Cameron Webb, director of Health Policy and Equity at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and White House Senior Policy Advisor for COVID-19 Equity, addressed the Fauquier NAACP last Friday during the group’s annual fundraiser. The event, held over Zoom, also featured music, trivia and presentations about the civil rights organization’s activities over the past year.