(Commentary) To help achieve this, the American Association of Medical Colleges should explicitly include the reduction of bias in medicine as a goal for all of their 172 accredited medical institutions. Some schools have implemented courses aimed at this objective, such as the University of Virginia's Social Issues in Medicine class for first-year students, which helps them "recognize and analyze the relationships between sociocultural environments and the occurrence, prevention and treatment of disease."
In a study of the way Americans spent their first round of pandemic-related stimulus checks in April — many of those around $1,200 each — scholars from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Virginia showed that people spent a great deal of their allotment on food, helping to stave off hunger.
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Haris have selected UVA Health’s Dr. Cameron Webb to serve on the White House COVID-19 Response Team as the senior policy advisor for COVID-19 equity.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System are performing a clinical trial to help people experiencing heart failure. The trial involves creating a vent in the heart with the goal of relieving pressure, which causes heart failure symptoms like shortness of breath, swelling, and an irregular heart beat.
Michelle Fishburne didn’t worry too much after losing her public relations job last spring in a pandemic-induced company downsizing. She had plenty of experience and a wide professional network. But after sending out 86 fruitless cover letters in search of a new job, the UVA Law alumna began to think her willingness to relocate for work was going to be her greatest asset. Inspired by the work of Brandon Stanton, author of “Humans of New York,” Fishburne let her Chapel Hill lease expire last July, moved into her 29-foot Jamboree motor home and set out to travel the country interviewing people a...
Virginia Beach native and professional basketball player Devon Hall wants to make sure all local kids can afford to play organized basketball and realize their dreams. Hall, a former UVA standout who now plays professionally in Europe, said he will donate $30,000 over the next three years to support economically disadvantaged players at the new Wave Basketball Club at the Virginia Beach Sports Center.
While spending the WNBA off-season in Israel, New York Liberty guard/forward Jocelyn Willoughby has launched a book club, Read What You Sow with Jocelyn Willoughby. Planned to start in February, the book club will explore social justice issues such as health care and education through the lens of women of color.
Researchers with the University of Virginia School of Medicine reported that medications used to treat HIV and hepatitis B slash the risk of developing diabetes by a third for these patients.
A University of Virginia neuroscience professor, Alban Gaultier, and a former graduate student, Dorian A Rosen, found that fluvoxamine may potentially help treat COVID-19.
People with Parkinson’s disease with symptoms affecting one side of the body, who were treated with focused ultrasound targeting the affected brain region, showed an improvement in motor features after four months, a small study reported. To clarify the procedure’s effectiveness and safety, researchers at the University of Virginia, in collaboration with Spain’s Centro Intregral de Neurociencias, conducted a randomized, sham-controlled trial of focused ultrasound in a group of patients with highly asymmetric motor signs not fully controlled by medication.
A new online information dashboard will help track Virginia's progress toward its clean energy goals. The University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service and the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy launched the dashboard on Wednesday.
While the U.S. House of Representatives was voting to impeach President Donald Trump, a panel was meeting virtually to discuss fascism and the far-right. The conversation, entitled ‘Using the F-Word: Fascist Drift in America,’ was hosted by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
More people at the University of Virginia can get COVID-19 saliva tests. UVA's expanding it to employees who work on Grounds as part of the university's effort to increase testing and prevent asymptomatic spread.
With his roommate in dire health from the coronavirus last spring, it did not take much for [UVA alumnus] John Hollis to believe he would also contract the highly infectious, deadly disease. It turned out that Hollis unknowingly already had Covid-19 and may have unwittingly infected his roommate. Hollis learned in July that he fell into a rare category of people whose blood could help scientists understand Covid-19 and potentially treat those who fall ill.
(Podcast) The banning of President Trump from many social media platforms has led to renewed calls from both political parties to amend or revoke Section 230. Jane Coaston debates what changing the law might mean with Klon Kitchen, director of the Center for Technology Policy at the Heritage Foundation, and Danielle Keats Citron, a professor at the UVA School of Law and author of “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.”
UVA’s Miller Center will be hosting a panel Friday regarding presidential pardons. This is part of the ongoing conversation about impeachment and invoking the 25th Amendment against President Donald Trump.
When she was in fifth grade, Margaret Mary “Maggie” Cleary said she remembers telling her classmates that she had prosecutorial ambitions. “I’ve always had a passion for having victims see justice,” Cleary, a UVA Law grad, said recently from her office in a building near the Culpeper Courthouse. She has served as an assistant commonwealth’s attorney for the county since 2018. Starting Feb. 1, Cleary will become an assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia, based in Roanoke.
Branden Kline, a Frederick native who overcame a series of injuries to reach the majors after the Orioles took him early in the 2012 draft, announced his retirement from baseball Wednesday morning. Kline, 29, was the Orioles’ second-round pick in 2012 out of the University of Virginia.
Sen. Chuck Schumer’s skills as a politician will be fully tested in the tightly controlled Senate, where the “filibuster” rule can make it difficult to pass any legislation with fewer than 60 votes, and where even measures that can be passed with a simple majority will have to please the most conservative Democrats in the body. “Schumer is constrained both by the filibuster and also the preferences of his least-liberal members,” said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “That list starts with Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.”
“I think the public perception is that all those scary people who gathered on Capitol Hill, they met up and continue to meet up on Parler, whereas Facebook and Twitter are doing something about it,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Virginia and an expert on online harms. “And so Parler is the lowest hanging fruit.”