The UVA Medical Center just earned 2017 Women's Choice Awards for two of its programs. UVA Medical Center received its Bariatric Surgery Award by having a lot of patient satisfaction post-surgery. The Cancer Center also earned the Best Hospitals for Cancer Care Award because of its patient care and research.
Researchers at the UVA Health System will soon begin testing a potential therapeutic treatment for dry eye.
A study from the University of Virginia found that grandparents who routinely hugged their grandchildren had higher levels of oxytocin and lower levels of stress, which can help keep them healthy in their older years.
UVA has been selected as one of 18 schools across the country to help research major transportation challenges that our nation will face over the next three decades.
Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia with a presidential vibe in architecture and surrounded by stunning grassy gardens filled with flowers, a mix that makes it one the most beautiful college campuses. If the landscapes and building didn’t convince you to take into consideration the fact that The American Institute of Architects also called the campus “the proudest achievement of American architecture in the past 200 years.”
John Adams left the White House in a flurry of paperwork, working till midnight to fortify the United States against the next president, his political nemesis and friend, Thomas Jefferson. Each founder’s legacy was bound up in the other’s, setting a precedent for every president who followed them. “These tensions in the American psyche go all the way back to the revolution,” said Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
"What's dangerous is the carbon dioxide gas," UVA physicist Louis Bloomfield said. "Once it has been forced out of the water as the water crystallizes, the carbon dioxide accumulates in the small remaining space in the can and the pressure of that gas skyrockets."
In a campaign hosted by Google, actors Hill Harper and Rosario Dawson read a letter that UVA second-year student Kyndia Riley wrote to her mother, who is in prison in West Virginia. Her mother and father were hit with multiple life sentences for selling drugs. Her grandparents and sister died before she started college. She was struggling to stay in school, but after her story first aired, everything in her life changed.
As a legislator, he was “low-key and soft-spoken, which may be one of the reasons he was so well-liked and successful,” said Larry J. Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “He wasn’t wont to call press conferences or get up on the soapbox. When he spoke, people really did listen.”
Political analysts were dubious that Virginia will replay North Carolina’s script on the bathroom bill. “I would bet my bottom dollar that we will never see such a bill emerge from the legislature,” said Larry J. Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “The Senate would kill it, even if the House passes it. I doubt it even gets out of the House.”
A new analysis shows that people with mental disorders who engage in therapeutic interventions become, on average, significantly less neurotic and slightly more extroverted after treatment. Roberts led the analysis with a team that included Dr. Phil Chow of the University of Virginia.
The Democrats’ path back to the House majority before the 2016 election was in the affluent suburbs where Donald Trump underperformed Mitt Romney's numbers in 2012. "Those suburban districts are located in places like Southern California, Northern Virginia, parts of Texas, and Metro Atlanta. Republican incumbents in these places generally won reelection, but if Trump is unpopular in 2018, angry voters in these places will only be able to punish him down the ballot," said Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.The Democrats’ path back to the House majority before the 2016 e...
Families have been leaving Dickenson and Virginia’s seven other coal-producing localities for years, decades even, as coal has fallen out of favor and mines have shut down. But last year the coalfield school districts collectively lost about 3 percent of their students in about six months. There’s a simple explanation to some, but not all, of the enrollment losses in the coalfields, said Hamilton Lombard, a demographer with UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, agrees that economic development will be part of the McAuliffe’s legacy. But Sabato said this legacy will also depend on who wins the Virginia governorship next.
Speaking on the political economy of women's work in India and its relationship to the Indian state, M.S. Sreerekha, faculty at UVA’s Global Studies Program, pointed out that the withdrawal of state support under globalization, coinciding with the demand for expansion of state welfare schemes, is progressively weakening the social-service sector in the country.
Trump infuriated the White House by offering a running commentary on Obama's final weeks, criticizing his decision not to veto a UN resolution on Israeli settlements and the transfer of prisoners out of Guantanamo Bay prison. "Trump has incinerated the ‘one president at a time’ rule. His behavior during the transition has been just as erratic as we've come to expect on most matters," said Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Experts say many paramedics are not fully up to speed on how exactly to begin treatment on stroke victims. The Thomas Jefferson EMS Council is partnering with the UVA Medical Center and Sentara Martha Jefferson to try and change that.
The UVA Children's Hospital is opening a renovated intensive care unit that will help children and families feel comfortable.
Many high achievers from poor families don’t even consider elite colleges. Without help from knowledgeable guidance counselors or visits from college admissions officers to their high schools, these students don’t realize that, with their credentials, they would almost certainly be admitted to a better institution and receive a financial aid package so generous that it would actually save them money. Getting this information in these students’ hands can make a world of difference, as the economists Caroline Hoxby, at Stanford, and Sarah Turner, at the University of Virginia, have shown.
(By Dr. Richard P. Shannon, executive vice president for health affairs, and Pamela M. Sutton-Wallace, chief executive officer at the UVA Medical Center) The Daily Progress recently reported that the UVA Health System is facing payment reductions by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services based on hospital-acquired conditions and surgical complications derived from billing data from 2013-2015. What the CMS data captures is complexity and severity of illness, not quality of care.