Despite the publication of 18-year follow-up data, which confirmed the 2007 findings on the safety and effectiveness of hormone therapy in younger women, clinicians still have knowledge gaps that require education, said lead researcher Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, from UVA’s Midlife Health Center, who is executive director of the North American Menopause Society.
"Xi Jinping has started his second term by announcing a new era in Chinese politics, and evidently part of the new era is to leave open the question of successors," says UVA political scientist Brantly Womack. "Does this mean that Xi plans to break precedent and take a third term himself?"
Why is it so common for men to struggle with or lash out at a rejection? “We aren’t giving boys the space to voice emotions as we give to girls,” says Dr. Chris Hafen, a research scientist at UVA’s Virginia Adolescent Research Group. “What that builds is a dynamic where boys are behind girls as far as emotional maturity.”
The 67th district stretches from South Riding through Sully Station and Penderwood. The average commute time is 33 minutes, and 81 percent of workers over the age of 16 drive alone to work — a set of statistics that crystalize the political influence transportation has on voters here. Republicans haven’t had a successful statewide candidate here since Republican Bob McDonnell was elected governor in 2009. Hillary Clinton crushed Donald Trump among voters in the district, taking an overwhelming 58 percent of the vote. Trump took only 36 percent of the vote here, which has put this dis...
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politicssaid it’s hardly unusual for a president’s favorability to drop after taking office. Still, Trump’s poor national standing could have consequences for the GOP in the 2018 midterm elections, when 23 Democrats, two independents and eight Republicans are up for re-election.
“Clearly there are documents, plural, files, plural, being appealed to him,” said UVA historian Larry Sabato, an authority on Kennedy. Of the pressure on Trump, Sabato said, “I’m told reliably that it continues and that it has intensified.”
McInnis lauded what a great student Inman was — "I remember in school he wanted to be the best at his grades" — and UVA film professor Kevin Everson echoed those sentiments. "He was really engaging, worked hard, tried to help everybody else," Everson said. Inman was a digital art major and Everson recalled how he "did this really sweet installation for his senior show. ... The installation had all this hay, it had all these crazy monitors. It was fascinating because the people were thinking it was a fire hazard but they let him do it anyway because it was cool."
Larry Sabato, the political scientist who directs UVA’s Center for Politics, said the result is widespread anxiety and uncertainty about the party's future. "I've had establishment Republicans say to me, 'The party is dying,' " he said. "The GOP they knew, it's half-dead already and probably will be dead within a few years. And at that point, it will be a Trumpist party. Those are their words, not mine."
(By John Edwin Mason, who teaches African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia) They came to Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1968, by the thousand – young and old, black and white, traveling in buses and cars and mule trains. Most were African Americans, but Latinos, white, and members of half a dozen Native American nations were on hand as well. This was the Poor People's Campaign.
People who get coverage under Medicare and go to the UVA Health System will find all of the providers are covered by a new plan. This is thanks to a new Medicare Advantage plan being offered by Aetna and is available for beneficiaries in Charlottesville as well as the counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Madison and Nelson.
Virginia's unemployment rate is only 3.7%. So why is the economy a big issue in the governor’s race?
Enrollment at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, which has a modern, attractive campus, is stuck at about 2,200. Local officials say it needs to more than double in size to bring in a critical mass of talent and research programs that could lead to job creation. That would require a sizable investment from the state.
In a typical year, the foundation brings in about $1 million, mostly through book sales. For 2015, the most recent year for which records are available, compensation for staff and trustees ate up most of that — Green made $224,276. Add in other expenses — insurance, legal fees, etc. — and the foundation basically breaks even. However, it has spent $1 million to endow 20 scholarships at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise and has also endowed a business professorship at the college.
The UVA Health System unveiled a Medicare Advantage plan with Aetna Oct. 25. The plan, called Aetna Medicare UVA Health System, will provide beneficiaries in six counties access to UVA Health's providers at in-network rates.
UVA basketball player Isaiah Wilkins didn’t have to look in the mirror last March to know something was wrong. He’d been losing weight for more than a month, and he had trouble swallowing, but his mother’s shocked reaction confirmed how dire it had gotten.
According to UVA researchers, the resveratrol you get from drinking one glass of red wine three or four times a week may be enough to starve any nascent cancer cells. The scientists dosed human cancer cells with resveratrol and found that the compound inhibited the key action of a cancer-feeding protein.
The 2017 Literary Award for Poetry was given to Rita Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia and author of “Collected Poems: 1974-2004.” A former U.S. poet laureate and poet laureate of Virginia, Dove has earned many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1987, and has 25 honorary doctorates, the most recent from Yale University.
Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia politics expert, said Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake was “smart” to retire. “He had a miserable year in front of him – tough primary he might have lost, potentially a difficult general election, too. At best his chances to hold his seat were 50-50,” said Sabato, who added that the Democrats had a “good chance” of picking up the seat if Ward became the Republican candidate.
A new discovery may help people suffering from severe trauma or the full-body infection known as sepsis who develop multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, or MODS. UVA researchers say exercise may help protect people from disease and could one day reduce the death rate among the sickest and more gravely injured.
Increasingly, Virginia schools are getting financial support to seek a more diverse population in STEM programs -- that's science, technology, engineering and math. In Charlottesville, grants are funding a partnership between Piedmont Virginia Community College, UVA and Buford Middle School to make that dream come true.
One of the biggest problems facing public education in the commonwealth is taking center stage at the University of Virginia. The Curry School of Education hosted over 100 professionals and policymakers Tuesday. The hope of the conference is to get everyone on the same page and come up with possible solutions to address the shortage of teachers.