UVA political analyst Larry Sabato said Tuesday that Democrats are the favorites to win back the House in this year’s midterm election for the first time, as he shifted 17 House races in favor of Democrats.
(Commentary co-written by Saikrishna Prakash, law professor and Miller Center fellow) Progressives are right to fear Judge Brett Kavanaugh, but it is not his views on abortion, race or gay marriage that will haunt them. Instead, Kavanaugh’s threat to liberalism lies in his hostility to the modern technocratic state, where federal bureaucracies rule with few checks and balances.
Hospitals, except for the big public ones, such as the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond and University of Virginia’s hospital in Charlottesville, will pay new taxes to cover part of the cost of Medicaid expansion and the higher reimbursement. The federal government pays for 90 percent of the cost of expansion and will pick up most of the cost of the higher reimbursements.
Both UVA cross country head coaching jobs opened this summer. One was filled by someone who was literally by the side of UVA Director of Track and Field Bryan Fetzer, while the other was filled by a coach on the other side of the country.
In 2006, Thomas Platts-Mills, an allergist at the UVA School of Medicine, received a phone call from a colleague. Oncologists testing a new drug were baffled to find that nearly one in four patients had severe anaphylactic reactions to the drug. A few patients even died. The caller urged Platts-Mills to look into the mystery.
Trudy Munoz came to the U.S. legally from Peru but now faces the prospect of deportation because of a controversial medical diagnosis. When UVA’s Innocence Project reviewed the medical record, attorneys Deirdre Enright and Jenny Givens say they found something shocking.
A discovery by University of Virginia researchers has led them to find out how obesity can lead to diabetes, clogged arteries, and other chronic diseases.
New research from the UVA School of Medicine explains why obesity causes harmful inflammation that can lead to type 2 diabetes and other health problems. With this knowledge, the hope is that researchers will be able to find ways to reduce inflammation and consequently fight disease.
A new UVA study details how obesity is causing unwanted diseases. Researchers found that when free radicals inside the human body react with lipids inside fat tissue, diseases could develop.
Do toll lanes on Interstate 95, the Capital Beltway and I-66 save drivers time? Usually. Is it worth paying for? That depends, new research suggests. In the afternoon, it’s drivers with fewer than two other people in the car on I-495 or I-95 in Fairfax County who pay the highest rates per mile on average, according to several weeks of data from this spring compiled by UVA researchers.
The University of Virginia will host “The Hope that Summons Us: A Morning of Reflection and Renewal” on Aug. 11. The event will begin at 9 a.m. in Old Cabell Hall and will feature remarks by incoming UVA President James E. Ryan, as well as instrumental and community choral performances.
The Charlottesville-UVA-Albemarle County Emergency Communications Center management board is now considering three candidates for the vacant executive director position.
Experts were unanimous that what Trump did in Helsinki falls short of the constitutional bar for treason. Robert F. Turner, a fellow at UVA’s Center for National Security Law, said, “I think what Trump did in Helsinki was outrageous and offensive, but it was not constitutional treason.”
UVA political analyst Larry Sabato says Democrats for the first time are the favorites to retake control of the House in this year’s midterm elections.
(Audio) I went to UVA political scientist Todd Sechser to ask about the Helsinki Summit and how it was conducted. As you’ll hear, he said that, in order to understand what happened in Helsinki, we also have to look at the NATO meeting in Brussels and President Trump’s trip to England that preceded it.
Gabrielle Adams, a UVA professor who has studied CEO apologies, said the “cognitive dissonance” people experience when contradictory ideas come into play can result in a response called “motivated reasoning.” “It’s essentially this idea that we see things the way we want to see them,” she said. People already predisposed to liking Musk, she said, are more likely to see his apology as adequate, while those who tend to not like him could interpret it negatively.
David Martin, a UVA law professor emeritus, said, “It’s probably not the first judge who seemed more deferential and then got much more active when he or she thought the government was not being responsive or had taken a particularly objectionable stance. Childhood separation clearly had that kind of resonance.”
The largest-ever genetic study on human cognition has found more than 1,000 links between people’s genes and how far they get in school. “This paper will [be] a landmark in this new kind of social science,” says UVA psychologist Eric Turkheimer, who was not involved in the study. “As a very successful application of new genetic technology, it is extraordinary.”
Individual and small-group markets vary in experience, provider agreements and competitive considerations, the company replied on July 3. Two weeks later, the company cited its experience in the area, Medicaid expansion, the health of the population and provider experiences when it revised Central Virginia individual marketplace rates upward to the now-expected $967 premiums. But those justifications have been questioned by the consumer group and by the UVA Medical Center, which Optima blamed for part of the 2018 premium increases of between 195 percent to 247 percent.
UVA’s annual Mini-Medical School Program will begin Sept. 12 and will consist of 2½-hour weekly sessions over the course of seven weeks.