(By Dr. Susan C. Modesitt, director of gynecologic oncology at the UVA Cancer Center) For the past 10 years, we have had the ability to eradicate cervical cancer and drastically reduce other types of cancers related to the human papillomavirus, but it hasn’t happened.
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Young people are more likely to take risks and demand changes in their surroundings – hence the stereotype that college campuses are full of activism, according to UVA researcher Nancy Deutsch – but UVA has historically not harnessed that power to benefit the surrounding city. A $25,000 grant from the Lumina Foundation, though, will help Deutsch and a team of UVA researchers develop workshops and a short-term class to help undergraduates team up, connect with and help Charlottesville residents to address longstanding inequalities.
There are 418 first-generation students currently enrolled for the fall semester at UVA, and with both early action and regular decisions now made and deposits submitted, the expected class of 3,700 first-years will be more diverse overall than ever, Tom Katsouleas, outgoing provost and executive vice president, said at a June 8 Board of Visitors meeting.
The lone star tick is widespread in the southeastern and eastern U.S., and is now being found as far north as Maine. A crowdsourced map is keeping track of alpha-gal allergy cases worldwide. One reason may be the explosion of the deer population on the East coast, said Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, who heads the division of allergy and clinical immunology at the University of Virginia and who helped discover the link between the lone star tick and the allergy.
The falling birth rate has some experts worried that America will be left with too few people of working age to support its burgeoning elderly population — both by paying into programs like Social Security andby filling jobs in fields such as health care and home assistance. "If we stay at 1.76, it's not a huge issue," says Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, a nonpartisan research group at the University of Virginia that examines trends in family and childbearing. "If we continue to see a decline in fertility, that would be more likely to lead to some importa...
At the University of Virginia, increasing the safety of robot-assisted surgery has become a research focus of Homa Alemzadeh, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Last year, 877,000 robot-assisted surgeries were performed across the country. But Alemzadeh and her colleagues also discovered more than 10,000 adverse incidents, with 1,391 cases involving patient injury and 144 resulting in death. Alemzadeh says the role of surgeons and physicians will change significantly as robots become more prominent in medicine and pat...
On June 15, Melody Barnes was elected Vice Chairman of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the nonprofit that has owned and operated Monticello for 95 years. And after a two-year term, she will become the group's chairman, the first Black person, man or woman, to ever inhabit the role, the foundation exclusively tells Glamour. Barnes, a senior fellow and Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, brings to the foundation a unique mix of professional knowledge and personal experience.
UVA Professor Derrick Alridge has crisscrossed the South to interview teachers who participated in and taught during the civil rights movement. This week, though, he invited three Charlottesville-area black educators who lived and worked through the civil rights era to discuss experiences with local teachers.
In “Antisocial Media,” University of Virginia professor Siva Vaidhyanathan gives a full and rigorous accounting of Facebook’s sins.
The UVA Cancer Center is the first place in the state to receive DigniCap, a scalp cooling treatment that's aimed to help reduce and stop hair loss in breast cancer patients.
Bringing down the high cost of prescription drugs was a staple of President Trump's presidential campaign. On the campaign trail, Trump proposed allowing Medicare to bargain with pharmaceutical firms to set prices, and letting consumers import less expensive drugs from Canada. However, neither of those ideas made it into the administration's plan to lower drug costs, which was released last month with great fanfare. What exactly is in the Trump administration's proposal, and how likely is it to succeed? In this MedPage Today video commentary, Carolyn Engelhard, MPA, director of health policy a...
The nation’s highest court would now “almost certainly” be more hostile to environmental law than it has been since the founding of the EPA in 1970, said Jonathan Z. Cannon, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
What Does It Mean to Be Canceled? “To me, it’s ultimately an expression of agency,” said Meredith Clark, a professor at the University of Virginia’s department of media studies. “To a certain extent: I really do think of it like a breakup and a taking back of one’s power.” Canceling, she said, is an act of withdrawing from someone whose expression — whether political, artistic or otherwise — was once welcome or at least tolerated, but no longer is.
Humans are more generous, cooperative, and forward-thinking when surrounded by nature, said Tim Beatley, an architecture professor at the University of Virginia and executive director of the Biophilic Cities Project, a group that works with city collaborators to implement biophilic design across the world.
“I think he’s been a voice of moderation. In many ways, he’s been the court’s balance wheel. He’s sensible, he’s close to the ground, he’s anything but ideological,” said A.E. Dick Howard of the University of Virginia School of Law, an expert on the court and the Constitution.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics wants to get kids interested in history and civic engagement through its annual political history project.
“What we’re seeing here is the standard process of Trump launching a series of lies into our media ecosystem and then watching it bounce around and amplify through the system,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at The University of Virginia. “So to respond with anything reasonable to the fact that the president basically made stuff up is to extend the message and to throw a bomb” into the political debate.
The company said in a statement that it “allows pharmacists to step away from filling a prescription for which they have a moral objection.” In such situations, it said, the pharmacist “is required to refer the prescription to another pharmacist or manager on duty to meet the patient's needs in a timely manner.” “Title VII does not say that the pharmacist can inflict harm or sabotage the prescription,” said Douglas Laycock, a professor of law and religious studies at the University of Virginia. “The minor inconvenience of going to the next store over should not override the pharmacist's rights...
Microglia -- often blamed in Alzheimer's -- actually clean neurodegenerative debris with remarkable precision and protect the central nervous system, University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers reported.
Virginia head swimming and diving coach Todd DeSorbo announced the hiring of head diving coach Drew Livingston on Tuesday. Livingston joins the program after serving as the head diving coach at Princeton since 2016.