Though there are likely many contributors to the emergence of Lyme disease (including climate change), researchers think changes in land use have played a major role. That’s why scientists like Pyrros Telionis, a postdoctoral researcher at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, are studying how land cover affects Lyme disease risk.
Robert Pianta, the dean of UVA’s School of Education and Human Development, said simultaneously teaching in-person and online puts unprecedented pressure on educators, who are largely left to improvise in the absence of research or established best practices.
Through personal tragedy and professional triumph, a UVA School of Nursing professor is helping to make the final moments of life a little more equitable for all. In 2017, Kim Acquaviva published a book about LBGTQ hospice and palliative care inclusion.
Two York County brothers are working to help people in the community affected by COVID-19. Jeffrey and Sabian Beyon started sewing face masks back in April after they were inspired to help. [Sabian is a second-year student at UVA.]
The Empire State Building is 1,250 feet tall. I have since learned that because a penny’s lightweight, flat round shape, and the fact that it experiences a lot of air resistance would most likely not kill someone if tossed from the Empire State Building. However, according to Louis Bloomfield, physicist at the University of Virginia, “falling ballpoint pens are the real danger. If someone nonchalantly tossed one of those off the top of the Empire State Building, it could kill.”
At issue in both cases is the Supreme Court’s 1977 decision in Trans World Airlines v. Hardison, which set the “de minimis” standard for religious accommodations under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Courts and employers will have to take the statute more seriously if the employees win either of these cases, said Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, who filed a brief on behalf of legal scholars urging the high court to take the cases. Hardison “took all the teeth” out of the protections for religious workers, he said.
Kathleen Flake, who teaches Mormon studies at the University of Virginia, has no issue with what the manifesto says. She just questions why it even exists. “No one needs more ‘-ites,’ or divisiveness,” she says. “You don’t need the Book of Mormon to tell you that anymore. The wisdom of it is manifest everywhere today.”
In an accompanying editorial, David Kaufman, MD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and Karen Puopolo, MD, PhD, of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, stated that these findings are reassuring for clinicians and patients who want to practice rooming-in and breastfeeding.
The months-long process will require even vaccinated residents to continue safety precautions, including mask-wearing, social distancing, and staying home whenever possible to reduce the spread of the virus. Virginia is currently experiencing its worst surge of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, with hospitalizations at an all-time high and cases continue to climb in all five geographic regions. “It’s going to take some sacrifice,” said Bryan Lewis, a computational epidemiologist at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, which partners with the state health department to model the potential spread of ...
There are several reasons our vaccine options have outstripped treatments. The first is cost-effectiveness: While vaccines are expensive and time-consuming to develop, they have the potential to stop the pandemic. Treatments only help those already sick, so are less valuable to governments overall. “I’m not surprised that there’s been more aggressive funding to work with vaccines, because I think, in the end, that’s how we’re going to turn the tide on this,” Taison Bell, an infectious-disease physician at the University of Virginia, said.
These and other results largely failed to impress experts, many of whom said the drug would need to have far bigger benefits to outweigh its price tag and potential harms. “It seems more incremental than blockbuster,” said Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care physician at the University of Virginia, who was involved in the clinical trial. Although Bell described baricitinib as a reasonable addition to the COVID treatment toolbox and even deserving of an emergency approval, “I don’t think it’s a game changer,” he said.
These and other results largely failed to impress experts, many of whom said the drug would need to have far bigger benefits to outweigh its price tag and potential harms. “It seems more incremental than blockbuster,” said Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care physician at the University of Virginia, who was involved in the clinical trial. Although Bell described baricitinib as a reasonable addition to the COVID treatment toolbox and even deserving of an emergency approval, “I don’t think it’s a game changer,” he said.
(Commentary by Russell L. Riley, White Burkett Miller Center Professor of Ethics and Institutions and co-chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program) Donald Trump plays only a bit part in Jonathan Alter’s splendid new biography of Jimmy Carter. His name is mentioned on just 17 of the book’s nearly 800 pages, slightly more exposure than Trump got in “Home Alone 2.” But it is hard to read this volume without the mind’s eye turning constantly to the president who was in office as Alter was writing. Why? Because no two presidents in the history of the republic are more unalike i...
(Commentary co-written by Craig Volden, professor of public policy and politics and co-director of the Center for Effective Lawmaking) As President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet nominees have been named, much of the discussion has been about their ideological leanings. Is Biden balancing the moderate and progressive wings of his party in a meaningful way? This is too narrow a focus. After all, who cares how “liberal” cabinet members are if they are – ultimately – ineffective? What if they lack the expertise or the temperament to reach across the aisle to get things done?
So how did we get to this point? To find out, Stacker compiled a list of important moments in journalism history between 1921 and 2020. It looked at information from think tanks, such as the Pew Research Center and Brookings Institution; universities, including the University of Virginia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Kansas; and journalism-focused publications, like the Columbia Journalism Review. And of course, it also looked at archival articles from major media, like The New York Times and The Washington Post.
(Editorial) Why should we care about school closures and the housing market in Japan? Because what Japan is going through is exactly what most localities in Southside and Southwest Virginia are going through. They’re losing population. A few years ago we consulted Hamilton Lombard, a demographer with the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. He computed that over the next decade, the number of people dying each year in the coalfields should rise to between 3,000 and 3,500— while the number of babies born will fall to about 1,700 per year.
A warning from women’s health providers in these pandemic times: A new study shows a dangerous trend in many of those who have delivered a baby this year. It appears the toll is on a mothers’ mental health. The study by the University of Nebraska Medical Center and University of Virginia School of Medicine is not yet published.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Cancer Center are working on turning microscopic fat balls, called lipid nanoparticles, into tiny bombs that will attach to genes of breast cancer cells to stunt their growth and thwart their expansion.
Doctors from the University of Virginia School of Medicine are tackling two diseases that, when both are contracted by a person, kill up to half of the people who get them. According to a release, this is an effort in sub-Saharan Africa to target sepsis and tuberculosis.
Health experts at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine are launching new efforts to combat sepsis infections that could save millions of lives in sub-Saharan Africa.