More than a decade ago, clinicians noted striking similarities between patients with ebola and those with bacterial sepsis. Two of them – Dr. David S. Fedson, a retired professor of medicine at UVA, and Dr. Steven M. Opal, a professor of medicine at Brown University – analyzed several studies that have shown that STATINS reduce viral replication in human diseases. They recommend FDA approved oral immunomodulary STATIN drugs which are directly available that can treat the symptoms of Ebola and cure patients.
Interstitial fluid transports nutrients and removes waste between the organs and tissues in our body. In the brain, interstitial fluid is thought to be composed of circulating cerebrospinal fluid, cellular waste and blood plasma, and past research has shown a link between interstitial fluid flow and an increased invasion rate of glioblastoma, or brain tumor, cells. A team of biomedical researchers and electrical engineers from UVA and Virginia Tech recently developed a new method to measure and reconstruct interstitial fluid flow velocities in the brain.
You can learn a lot from your children. Through his autistic daughter, Vikram Jaswal, a UVA associate professor of psychology, learned you can’t always judge a person through accepted social norms.
Focusing on denuclearization won’t get us anywhere with North Korea, says Philip Zelikow, a former U.S. State Department official and professor of history at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, UVA professor of sociology) While many public commentators, like Ta-Nehisi Coates, have underlined the enduring character of racism in America, and the ways in which America's racial divide has exacted a particular kind of toll on black men and boys, there is today, unheralded, good news about African-American men.
Will Hardy had a first-hand look at what London Perrantes could provide last year in Las Vegas. The University of Virginia product scored the final six points for the 2017 Miami summer league team, including an 18-foot jumper with four seconds remaining to lift the Heat over the Spurs. Perrantes finished with 12 points, five assists and three steals in that contest and left an impression on Hardy. “I’m glad he’s with us,” said Hardy hours before the Spurs kicked off their 2018 Summer League schedule in Utah. “He kicked our butt pretty good last year in Vegas.” After a short stint on the team’s...
On the same day the Washington Wizards introduced Austin Rivers, whom they acquired last week from the Los Angeles Clippers, they lost their top free agent target to their trading partner. UVA alumnus Mike Scott, an unrestricted free agent, agreed to a deal with the Clippers on Monday.
The European scouting service Premier Players International recently completed its second annual DreamChasers Tour, making history in the process. Brandon Collier led 25 of Europe’s best college prospects on a whirlwind tour of the Eastern USA to compete in NCAA camps against America’s best. During the 10,000-mile journey, the tour was able to visit nearly a dozen FBS schools where its ‘DreamChasers’ had unrivaled access to college football’s top programs. Some schools feel they are getting a steal by snatching up these players. Programs like Temple, Rutgers, University of Virginia, and Old Do...
Sitting in the still, sunny courtyard of Tower Hill private school in Delaware, Zara Ali talks about her favorite city in the world: Mumbai. India's commercial capital, Mumbai -- crowded, dynamic, colorful -- is 13,324 kilometers and cultures away from Wilmington, Delaware -- a historic American town with fewer than 100,000 people. This month, among rolling hills and lush gardens, Ali graduated from the small private school of 700 students. “Sometimes it’s difficult to feel like you have a global outlook” when ensconced in the leafy Brandywine region of the mid-Atlantic U.S. But her teachers a...
Crowley’s leadership position will, of course, be vacated. And potentially seeking to replace him is Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Afghan war. “Lee came close to joining House Leadership in the past, so I don’t think you could rule out her winning,” Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics told me by email Friday morning.
(Commentary) Kennedy’s gay marriage opinions are less likely to be overturned. These decisions are of relatively recent vintage, but in contrast to affirmative action, they seem more secure because Kennedy’s “jurisprudence largely mirrors changes in society,” as University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Prakash recently noted.
William Ferraro, a senior associate editor with the University of Virginia’s Washington Papers project said the fake letters were not particularly unusual for their time. Many politicians and writers schemed against each other, and pamphlets were a common format to use when making attacks on opponents. Rumors and innuendo ran rampant. What’s more, the unity and idealism of the revolution, the spirit of 1776, had gradually dissipated over the years. By the time Washington was preparing to leave office in 1797, political parties and extreme partisanship had begun. "It got Washington incredibly u...
Penn would be welcomed into the Universities Studying Slavery consortium, which has about 40 member schools in the U.S. and abroad, said its co-chair, Dr. Kirt von Daacke, assistant dean and professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. “Penn’s findings are yet another reminder that slavery and racism in the American past are not Southern stories, they are American stories,” he said, adding that the revelations are less about an individual school’s history and more about “America becoming more connected to its complicated and difficult past.”
An FCC Commissioner made the rounds at the University of Virginia Health System on Monday as a part of a partnership aimed at helping rural patients get top notch health care.
(Video) CGTN's Rachelle Akuffo spoke to Aynne Kokas, author of "Hollywood made in China," about China's expanding ties with Hollywood.
(Commentary) Interestingly, as much as we’re currently experiencing a public push for greater data-tracking transparency, the reality might be that consumers actually don’t value the transparency that much. Researchers from Harvard Business School, the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and IESE (the graduate business school of the University of Navarra, Spain) have shown in their paper “Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The Effect of Ad Transparency on Ad Effectiveness ” that consumers are reluctant to engage with ads that they know have been offered to them because of their online ac...
If the divide were in effect during the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton would have won all three Californias, according to an analysis by the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, beating President Trump by more than 30 percentage points in both Northern California and California, and by 10 percentage points in Southern California. However, the same analysis found Democratic President Barack Obama would have narrowly beaten Republican Mitt Romney by 0.6 percent in the state of Southern California in 2012.
(Audio) This Independence Day, Connecticut residents will flock to the shoreline, raising umbrellas and spreading towels along the state's beaches. Yet, behind this sunny imagery hides a somber history -- a story of coastal ownership and exclusivity. This hour, University of Virginia professor and Free the Beaches author Andrew Kahrl joins us. We reflect on the impact of Connecticut’s private and restricted beaches and learn about a 20th-century crusade to unlock the state’s coast.
Tommye S. Sutton, deputy chief of police at Northwestern University, has been named assistant vice president and chief of police at the University of Virginia, starting in August.
UVA’s Darden School of Business ranks No. 24.