A new study finds nearly a third of breast cancer survivors in Appalachia are not taking the critical, potentially life-saving follow-up treatment – despite having insurance that would pay for it. “Almost a third of the prescriptions for adjuvant hormone therapy were not filled, which is much, much higher compared to what we usually see in commercially insured populations,” said Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences. “Usually it ranges from about 10 [percent] to 15 percent, so this is almos...
LeiLei Secor is a 19-year old University of Virginia student. She’s spending her summer working for her local congressman near Albany, New York where she grew up. She’s also the owner of Designed by Lei, an Etsy store that has made more than $100,000 in three years. She’s using that money to pay her way through college.
Before the University of Virginia Health System and Novant Health finalize the formation of a new Northern Virginia Regional Health System that will own UVa Culpeper Hospital, administrators want to hear from the community. UVa Culpeper Hospital CEO Greg Napps said UVa Health System will still have a significant ownership position in the new company while Novant Health will be the managing partner.
Free samples: Here’s why you might want to dodge the folks who dole them out. Shoppers who munched on bits of frozen pizza and ice cream were five times as likely to buy them as people who turned down the snacks, according to a study led by the University of Virginia. Why? “Reciprocity,” says Brian Wansink, Ph.D., director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and author of “Slim by Design” (William Morrow, 2014), who was not involved in the study. “The person who gave you the sample was so nice, you don’t want to let them down. Just remember their salary ...
Patients in hospitals often complain they can't get a decent night's sleep for all of the bright lights seeping under the doors of their rooms, interruptions by the staff, and the noises from machines. Still, adequate sleep is essential for good health, and is especially important in recovering from an illness or surgery.Lisa Letzkus, a doctoral nursing student at the University of Virginia may have found a way to help patients get a better night's sleep — a red-colored light bulb.
The U.S. Green Building Council and the University of Virginia School of Medicine announced that they have been awarded a three year, $1.2 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to advance their Green Health Partnership. This research initiative, led by Chris Pyke, Ph.D., and Dr. Matthew Trowbridge directly addresses longstanding gaps in the availability of practical tools to promote healthy places.
The University of Virginia has chosen its next architect. Alice J. Raucher has been working as a projects planner and chairwoman of a design team for Yale University.
It might seem like a stretch to suppose that a single word can lead to any of these actions. But language can powerfully affect how we view the world — and what sorts of costs we're willing to bear — in ways that are hard to appreciate. One good example of this is a related, everyday word that defines the relationship between car and pedestrian without us quite realizing it: jaywalking. "In the early days of the automobile, it was drivers' job to avoid you, not your job to avoid them," says Peter Norton, a University of Virginia historian, told me f...
The term “vocational education,” which means preparing students for a certain trade, such as auto repair or beauty school, initially began in 1917 to reduce unemployment and improve wages, and in the 1940s and 1950s, vocational education expanded to other subjects beyond agriculture and industrial work such as science, math and foreign language education. Philip Zelikow, co-author of America’s Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age, and White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia, said the best way to provide vocational education wo...
No case has affected the community of Wheaton, Maryland more than the mysterious disappearance of Sheila and Katherine Lyon, two sisters who went to a mall in March 1975 and never returned home, said John McCarthy, the prosecutor representing their hometown. Murder trials in which a body has not been recovered are atypical but happen, University of Virginia Law Professor Darryl Brown said in an interview with The News & Advance last spring. He referenced a website operated by former prosecutor Tad DiBiase, which lists hundreds of known “no body” murder trials in the country, th...
In a recent article on The Art of Manliness, Brett and Kate McKay shared some of the benefits from their marriage, taking note that it took place when they were 22 and 24, respectively, which is considered young by today's standards. He noted that researchers from the National Marriage Project found that "culturally, young adults have increasingly come to see marriage as a 'capstone' rather than a 'cornerstone' — that is, something they do after they have all their ducks in a row, rather than a foundation for launching into adulthood and parenthood...
It has been remarkably quiet in the month since Tom Brady slipped out of NFL headquarters through a garage following his lengthy Deflategate appeal hearing. Now, as the New England Patriots quarterback and NFL Players Association await NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's ruling on whether to uphold, reduce or overturn Brady's four-game suspension, the threat of a lawsuit looms. "Just the idea that this suit might be brought is reason enough to give the NFL some pause that even winning might bring out unflattering information and bad publicity that the league seems particularly c...
When an ad pops up in your Web browser, there's a lot going on behind the scenes. Advertisers are competing for the space in front of you in what amounts to an auction. In milliseconds, their computers have to decide how much they are willing to pay for a few seconds of your attention, while the website's computers choose which advertisers' bids to accept. Throwing out the old assumption, Tardos and colleagues at the University of Virginia and Microsoft Research have proposed a method for inferring what advertisers believe an ad is worth based on the assumption that bidders have be...
The consternation comes after an immigrant in the country illegally was charged recently with killing a San Francisco woman. There is also confusion over what "sanctuary city" means. One problem: There isn't a clear definition, experts say. And the city denies it is one under any definition. The term began to pop up in the 1980s, when many Central American expats flocked to the U.S. in search of political asylum, said David Martin, an international law professor at the University of Virginia. "There's not much under Virginia law that could be labeled a sanctuary policy,&...
After winning its second national championship in the last three years, Virginia tennis may get a new home. As part of a 10-year strategic planning process that began in 2012, a new outdoor tennis facility worthy of hosting NCAA championships has been identified as a portion of UVa’s proposed athletic facilities projects. A football support building and enhancements to baseball’s Davenport Field are also on the list.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise found out on Friday it is now a full-fledged NCAA Division II school. With the news, UVa-Wise has now completed a three-year transition process and full membership means that all 13 sports at UVa-Wise will be eligible for postseason play beginning this fall.
ProPublica’s Surgeon Scorecard illustrates the disparities among surgeons performing the same procedure—sometimes in the same hospital—and is providing new insight to patients seeking the best care for elective surgeries. It’s also predictably drawing the ire of some in the medical profession. "The ProPublica database and data analysis have some significant flaws that undercut its ability to evaluate surgeons," said Eric Swensen, a public information officer for University of Virginia Health System. "Chief among these flaws is the use of billing data, not...
About 90 percent of those who graduated from Piedmont Virginia Community College’s nursing program last year found work, more than half of them at the University of Virginia Medical Center or Martha Jefferson Hospital. That’s about even with the trend line over the past five years — and it should continue to grow, said Kathy Hudson, dean of Health and Life Sciences at PVCC.
University of Virginia researchers are working to create small, wearable, self-powered monitors that can be linked to sensors on the body and that send alerts when things are amiss. Researcher John Lach, a professor and chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is leading the research at U.Va., which is part of a larger National Science Foundation-supported collaborative called Assist, based at North Carolina State University.
Ms. Clinton’s persona, noted prominent Democratic pollster Mark Mellman, “transcends any one place.” Part of that transcendence might be her lack of a strong regional accent—something that distinguished her from Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Brooklyn native whose decades in Vermont have not dulled his Kings Highway inflections. “This might be a problem for some politicians, who sound like a New Yorker … She doesn’t,” said Larry Sabato, founder of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.