Margaret Doyle, a junior at the University of Virginia, has been studying climate change and its effect on animals, specifically mosquitoes that carry deadly diseases. “A hotter earth will lead to a lot more hungry mosquitoes with the potential to spread fatal disease,” Doyle says. “Unfortunately, with the president’s recent cuts to science and medical research, I’m worried that the necessary disease-vector research will be placed on the back burner and not given the urgent attention it deserves.”
Fox Animation has acquired the Michelle Cuevas middle grade book “The Care and Feeding Of A Pet Black Hole,” which is due to be published in September. Cuevas wrote “Confessions of An Imaginary Friend,” which came out in 2015 and Fox Animation is also developing. She earned her M.F.A. in creative writing at UVA in 2009.
UVA’s Curry School of Education is helping clinicians across the country find innovative ways to treat people with sports injuries through the 2017 Art and Science of Sports Medicine Conference.
Many parents have wrangled with the difficulty of following guidelines, such as the updated recommendations against bed-sharing, which nonetheless acknowledge that mothers often fall asleep in bed with their infant, and confusion about the safety of swaddling infants for sleep. The updated recommendations on room-sharing were actually intended to offer parents some leeway after six months, says Rachel Moon, lead author of the recommendations and head of pediatrics at UVA’s School of Medicine.
An organization is putting sport team managers front and center by developing a team of what they're calling “managers on a mission." Spencer Godine, a football manager and rising fourth-year student at UVA, was selected as one of 20 from across the country's thousands of NCAA and professional teams to provide educational and living aid to children in Ghana.
When Gene Corrigan could be seen approaching the chapel at Fork Union Military Academy, it truly could be said that Sonny Randle and the University of Virginia were at peace with each other. It was Corrigan, as UVA’s athletic director, who hired Randle as the Cavaliers’ head football coach prior to the 1974 season. It was also Corrigan who fired Randle after the 1975 season. No one could have wanted the position more than Randle, who was buried Wednesday, and no one could have done a more complete job of butchering the opportunity at his alma mater.
Second-seeded Virginia, playing its first true road game in the NCAA Tournament in eight years, lost to regional host and top-seeded TCU, 5-1, on Sunday. Should Virginia beat DBU on Monday afternoon, it’ll get the Frogs at 8 p.m. Eastern Monday. A win then and it’s a winner-take-regional game Tuesday with TCU.
David Toscano ought to be the most comfortable Democrat in Virginia. He represents a university town so deeply blue that Republicans aren’t bothering to challenge him for reelection to the General Assembly. From his perch as minority leader in the House of Delegates, Toscano shapes his party’s strategy and priorities. But he has been put on notice: Toscano has a primary opponent, a fellow Democrat trying to unseat him. And his opponent’s message is that there should be no comfortable Democrats right now. “That has to be at least a little bit disconcerting for Toscano,” said political analyst G...
One of the things the students noticed was that the policies and practices in the elementary schools seem to be more effective than those in the middle and high schools. Dewey Cornell, a professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education, said he’s seen a similar trend.
Room-sharing with infants at ages 4 months and 9 months was linked to less nighttime sleep, shorter sleep stretches, and unsafe sleep practices previously associated with SIDS, reported researchers. Writing in an accompanying editorial, Dr. Rachel Y. Moon of UVA and colleagues wrote that the findings are important "particularly to exhausted parents."
Rachel Y. Moon, professor of pediatrics at the UVA School of Medicine, speaking for the AAP, said the fall recommendations gave parents more flexibility – 6 months to a year of room-sharing – and for now, they will remain. However, Moon agreed that more study is needed. She said existing studies have conflicted with each other on mothers’ sleep experiences, and while room-sharing parents may be more sleep-deprived, “we don’t know that for sure.”
The issue prompted a heated exchange on CNN last week, with UVA political professor Larry Sabato accusing a pair of CNN hosts of perpetrating a false equivalence in arguing that Democrats were as likely as Republicans to promote violence and use violent rhetoric. "I'm not going to deny that American history is dotted with examples of legislators and congressmen getting into fights of one sort or another," Sabato told hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow.
The Corporate Prosecution Registry – created at the UVA Law School by Professor Brandon L. Garrett and librarian Jon Ashley – is searchable, sortable and downloadable. Garrett said he and Ashley created the database because “we want people to know what types of corporations get prosecuted, how much they pay, and what the crimes are.”
Daily Kos Elections reports that, as of May 25, there had been 18 special elections for Congressional and state legislative seats. Democrats have done better than Clinton in 12, averaging a margin of 11 percentage points better than their 2016 presidential nominee. That led Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of the Crystal Ball newsletter from UVA’s Center for Politics, to conclude: “Democrats can point to overall special election trends that suggest the opportunity for significant gains next year if they can be replicated on a nationalized scale.”
Dr. Craig Portell of the UVA Health System highlights some of the latest and most exciting treatments in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, including CAR-T therapies and targeted therapies such as venetoclax.
The twin epidemics of diabetes and obesity sweeping the country have forced a re-evaluation of the American diet, including the notion that fruit juice is a healthy alternative to soda. In a recent op-ed in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Heather Ferris, an assistant professor at the UVA Medical School, and two co-authors recommended that fruit juice be cut from the federal Women, Infants, and Children supplemental nutrition program for low-income families.
The study didn't look at how having a baby in the room affects sleep for parents. Dr. Fern Hauck, a UVA professor of family medicine and public health sciences, said the study raises questions about the safety of room-sharing, especially because of the evidence it can lead to the potentially dangerous habit of bed-sharing. But the differences in sleep among the room-sharers at 4 months were small, said Hauck, co-author of a commentary accompanying the study.
Those babies who shared a room were more likely to be brought into the parents’ bed overnight. They were also more likely to sleep with objects like pillows, blankets and stuffed animals. Both practices have been linked to sudden infant death, including by suffocation. “This is important information,” said Dr. Rachel Moon, a UVA professor of pediatrics who co-authored the American Academy of Pediatrics’ latest recommendation. “We don’t have enough info about downstream effects about what we’ve recommended.”
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that preschoolers should drink low-fat milk instead of whole milk because of the low calories. However, a new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition states that whole milk may actually be better. If you are still not sold on whole milk, a study from the University of Virginia found that weight gain was not restrained when obese children drank 1 percent milk or skim milk.
Researchers at UVA and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a new, non-invasive and non-toxic genetic therapeutic technique to restore dopaminergic neuron function in rats suffering from Parkinson's disease.