“Menopausal women need primary care providers to understand menopause and help them navigate it,” Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of The North American Menopause Society and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia Health System, told Healio Internal Medicine. “Seventy-five percent of women going through menopause will have hot flashes and about 25% of those will have them severe enough to need medical treatment.”
Menopause has its ups and downs — one minute you’re cold, and the next minute? Holy hotness, you’re the hottest hot thing a hot person could ever imagine being (hot). Many doctors recommend lifestyle changes, like exercising, losing weight, and eating a healthy diet to reduce the symptoms. “For about 60 to 80 percent of women, lifestyle modifications are adequate,” said Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UVA Health System and executive director of the North American Menopause Society. “But others need to take another step.”
“Corporate Identity: Making Business Strategy Visible through Design,” by Wally Olins. Dr. Mary Jo Hatch of the University of Virginia is an expert in organizational theory: the study of why organizations and their people behave the way they do. Hatch says this book redirected her research to connect organizational culture with organizational identity and corporate branding.
Overprepare. Jennifer Lawless, the 43-year-old Commonwealth Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, mounted an unsuccessful congressional primary bid in Rhode Island at age 30. And as a first-time candidate, she wanted to ensure “that people knew that I knew what I was doing.” So she studied stats and mastered issues that never even came up during the campaign — like establishing strong positions on NAFTA and wind farms, for example. “I don’t regret any of that,” she told Moneyish. “It imbued me with a sense of confidence so that I couldspeak to anybody about anything with a ...
UVA law school professor Dayna Matthew studies race, poverty and public health. She said that resident leadership of redevelopment processes can increase life expectancy, reduce infant mortality, improve mental health and increase access to health care. “When people who live in neighborhoods that are unhealthy participate in the redevelopment of those neighborhoods, their mental health changes. They become an integral part of a healthy process and a healthy outcome,” said Matthew, who is a leader in the UVA equity institute.
(Commentary co-written by Melody Barnes, co-director of UVA’s Democracy Initiative, professor of practice at the Miller Center, and distinguished fellow at the School of Law) As Florida gubernatorial candidates Ron DeSantis and Andrew Gillum shook every bush and tree to find the votes necessary to claim the statehouse, further down the ballot, Amendment 4 cruised to a decisive victory with over 64 percent of the vote. Why did Gillum and DeSantis supporters, including lifelong Democrats as well as those wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, align to restore voting rights to 1.4 million Flori...
Consider two young men. They’re similar in every way. One chooses an elite college, one doesn’t. Research has shown both end up earning the same later in life. It makes sense. They’re both intelligent, talented individuals. But when two women try the same thing, the one at the elite college ends up on average earning 13.9 percent more two decades later. Why did choosing more-selective colleges change the trajectories of women but not men? The short answer is marriage, according to a working paper by economists Suqin Ge of Virginia Tech, Elliott Isaac of Tulane University and Amalia Miller of t...
Just two caribou herds of 23 north of the Arctic Circle have been stable or increased from their maximum numbers, said Howard Epstein, an ecologist at the University of Virginia. The Porcupine Herd in Alaska and the Yukon and the Lena-Olenyk Herd in Russia are the only bands that don’t seem to be getting smaller. Populations of caribou and reindeer over the north have decreased from 4.7 to 2.1 million animals, possibly due to warmer conditions, he said.
(Commentary) The Center for Effective Lawmaking is a joint venture of the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt. Each Congress, it assigns a “legislative effectiveness score” to each legislator based on bills sponsored, progress through the legislative process, and importance of the legislation. Hatch has been named the most effective senator six times in the previous 20 congresses, including the 114th, and in the top 10 a total of 16 times.
(Editorial) Researchers at the University of Missouri and the University of Virginia have found that when educators and administrators focus on creating a positive school climate, the likelihood of a student being suspended decreases by approximately 10 percent.
Peggy Scott, with the University of Virginia Health System Oncology Department, offered a wheel of questions for people to spin. “My job is wonderful, sharing with the community the reasons for clinical trials,” Scott said. “Clinical trials are vital to the work we do to lower mortality rates from cancers.”
Rojai Fentress' quest for freedom received a jolt of good news several weeks ago when his former prescutor unexpectedly contacted the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, which for two years has been working on freeing Fentress.
(By Cynthia Moore, integrative health coach, registered dietitian and diabetes educator at the UVA Nutrition Counseling Center) Self-care is the things we do for ourselves that allow us to gently prevent health disasters, survive well and thrive.
In 1991, Dyan Aretakis decided to tackle the high rate of pregnancy among Central Virginia teenagers. She founded UVA’s Teen Health Center, which has helped dramatically reduce local teen pregnancy rates and offers dedicated mental health, sexual health and behavioral health services to local teens. As a nurse practitioner, Aretakis was committed to treating teens with respect and helping them to take ownership of their health, according to colleagues and her family. Aretakis died Sunday in Crozet at age 63 after a yearlong battle with glioblastoma.
Research suggests that smartphones can inhibit people from offering help to strangers on the street, reduce how much we smile at unfamiliar faces in a waiting room and even lessen our trust of strangers, neighbors and people of other religions or nationalities. "People don't talk about or realize that we actually get quite a lot from casual social interactions," UVA social psychologist Kostadin Kushlev said.
The heavy-handed expansion of the regulatory state was a hallmark of Barack Obama’s presidency – and the nation, under his presidency, had the economy to show for it. “The broad trend of environmental regulation during the Obama administration,” Jason Scott Johnston, a UVA law professor, told Reason magazine, “was to use the coercive threat or reality of regulation simply to try to shut down entire industries and entire types of economic activity.”
Much has been written about Nantucket’s whaling history and the period of decline that followed, but a new book gives us a different perspective on the how that transition impacted the residents of the Island. Host Mindy Todd interviews Everett Crosby, emeritus professor of history and chair of the medieval studies program at the University of Virginia, whose new book is titled “The Making of Nantucket Family Lives and Fortunes in the Nineteenth Century.”
For a White House that has frequently drawn parallels to the turmoil of the Watergate era, Cohen’s sentencing adds one more tick to the list. For a White House that has frequently drawn parallels to the turmoil of the Watergate era, Cohen’s sentencing adds one more tick to the list. Herbert W. Kalmbach, President Richard Nixon’s personal lawyer, received a prison sentence on June 17, 1974, exactly two years after the Watergate break-in, for funneling hush money to Watergate defendants. “In Watergate, he’s the money, the bagman,” says Ken Hughes, an expert on Watergate at UVA’s Miller Center.
Virginia quarterback Bryce Perkins was named the 2018 Dudley Award winner Wednesday night at the annual Richmond Touchdown Club awards banquet. He is the ninth Cavalier to win the award since 1990, and the first Virginia quarterback to hoist the trophy since Matt Blundin in 1991.
Claudio and Danielle Reyna experienced tragedy upon the death of their son, Jack, but his memory and legacy endure and are carried on in part by another son and U.S. youth national team standout, Giovanni. Claudio Reyna was a three-time NCAA champion at the University of Virginia.