The plans instead are regulated at the federal level through the U.S. Department of Labor, which does step in and help consumers if the plans are being mismanaged. But the Labor Department is limited in what it can do, experts say. It cannot make a factual judgment as to whether a surgery or a procedure is truly considered experimental, for example. It focuses mostly on how plans are administered. “(The Labor Department) doesn’t have the resources to investigate complaints about disputes,” said Carolyn Engelhard, the director of the UVA School of Medicine’s health polic...
The Paramount Theater in downtown Charlottesville is getting people into the Halloween spirit with a special screening of the movie “Nosferatu.” The 1920s horror film is based off the story of Dracula. The silent movie is accompanied by live music written by local composer and UVA media studies professor Matthew Marshall.
Women are becoming more aware of the term "breast density," but they aren't as familiar with its relation to breast cancer risk or mammograms, according to a small U.S. study. "There's a national movement to increase women's awareness of breast density and help them make better health care decisions," said Jennifer Harvey, study author and co-director of the UVA Breast Care Program.
The UVA Women’s Center is offering students a safe place to talk about body image concerns. Students get together periodically throughout the semester for what's called The Body Project.
A UVA student has turned her favorite coffee spot into more than just a place to get some caffeine. Jacqueline O'Reilly saw unused space in the back of Grit Coffee Bar & Cafe on Elliewood Avenue and asked if it could be put to better use.
UVA senior swimmer and Olympic gold medalist Leah Smith was at Martinsville on Sunday for the Goody's Fast Relief 500, where she served as an honorary official at the NASCAR race.
(By Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor of Media Studies) Are we hurtling toward a point of peak advertising? Our attention is becoming so completely harvested that there may be little more of ourselves to give. The implications for newspapers, television networks and Internet companies could be dire.
The contribution of senescent cells to atherosclerosis has remained murky, but the new study provides “the best evidence that they are important,” says cardiovascular pathologist Gary Owens of the UVA School of Medicine, who wasn’t connected to the research.
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, says lawn signs really don't matter in the grand scheme of the campaign.
(By John M. Owen, professor of politics and faculty fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) At a Berlin conference of diplomats, academics, journalists and activists last March, a British colleague asked me how the same country that elected Barack Obama twice could be so close to replacing him with a man who is his diametrical opposite.
"All of these states are ones where Democrats have outperformed the top of the ticket in recent key Senate and/or gubernatorial races," said Kyle Kondik, who follows gubernatorial elections for The Crystal Ball, a UVA political newsletter.
The latest Crystal Ball Electoral College map from Larry Sabato reflects Republican Donald Trump’s sagging poll numbers and predicts a loss for Trump that will be worse than the drubbing Mitt Romney suffered in 2012 (and possibly as bad as the slaughter John McCain suffered in 2008).
The three counties around Cincinnati typically provide 2-to-1 margins and strong turnouts for the Republican nominees, and were credited with delivering the votes George W. Bush needed to clinch his 2004 re-election. In his book “The Bellwether,” Ohio native Kyle Kondik, of UVA’s Center for Politics, describes Butler, Warren and Clermont as a Republican “super-county.”
As the hills of Charlottesville flash their autumn colors, another rite of the season will be taking place: the 29th Virginia Film Festival, with more than 120 movies, from regional premieres to likely Oscar candidates, and a handful of stars. It is a four-day happening next week, Thursday through Sunday, at sites around the city, including UVA.
The idea of a driverless fleet of electric cars powering an autonomous ride-hailing service is a popular one right now – especially since Tesla announced that all its new vehicles are now equipped with the necessary hardware to achieve full autonomy through software updates. I think it could be a good opportunity to revisit a study from earlier this year that tried to estimates the cost of what we know now as a “Tesla Network ride” in a Model 3. The study, published in April by T. Donna Chen of the University of Virginia, Kara Kockelman and Josiah P. ...
The Albemarle County, Charlottesville and UVA police departments are working with the Shelter for Help in Emergency to help identify victims of domestic violence.
The State Council of Higher Education’s declaration that private gifts ought not affect public support is right on the money. The statement follows last summer’s revelations that UVA had amassed a Strategic Investment Fund worth more than $2 billion.
As many as 10 million Americans have a disorder that affects their everyday lives, uncontrollable shaking called essential tremor. Doctors are finding new ways to use focused ultrasound on the brain to treat it. UVA researchers just finished up a clinical trial and one young man’s life is changed forever because of it.
UVA research psychologists Jessica Witt and Dennis Proffitt set up a table beside a softball game. For a free sports drink, ballplayers – 47 in all – were asked to partake in a brief psychology experiment.
A recession – or even a decline in economic momentum – could rapidly expose the new president to criticism and change the ability of the new administration to accomplish its goals. “When the economy goes south in the first term, it’s a treacherous situation for a president hoping for re-election,” said Nicole Hemmer, a UVA presidential historian.