Health Wagon CEO Teresa Tyson said Friday that the $40,800 grant recently awarded by the FCC will help pay for three telemedicine carts, giving improved connectivity with distance medical specialists. Tyson said the carts – containing digital stethoscopes, cameras and microphones – will provide improved links with medical specialists at the University of Virginia’s Medical Center and George Mason University.
The University of Virginia Health System is seeing its highest number of COVID-19 cases, including pediatric cases. However, with masking made optional in many local school divisions, Dr. Costi Sifri said at a COVID-19 briefing Friday morning that it’s hard to predict an impact with hospitalizations.
As of Friday, there are 627 patients in the University of Virginia Medical Center: 111 patients have COVID-19, 30 of them are adults in the ICU, and nine children in the pediatric unit. “We are having our highest rates of pediatric patients who are in the hospital right now with COVID, and we’re seeing the highest numbers of children with who are diagnosed with COVID have occurred in the last two weeks,” said Dr. Costi Sifri, a UVA epidemiologist.
The number of births in Virginia has been declining for years, not just in rural counties with shrinking populations, but across the state. Indeed, since 2016 the fall-off in births has been sharpest in Northern Virginia, according to data published in StatChat, the University of Virginia’s demographic research group blog. Birth rates are declining in all developed countries. In Northern Virginia, suggests analyst Hamilton Lombard, the drop is aggravated by young adults and families leaving the region.
Scientists and engineers collaborating across seven universities and two national laboratories have made a fundamental discovery about the atomic structure and vibrations in multilayer nanostructures, advancing the design of materials with unique infrared and thermal properties. Their paper, “Emergent Interface Vibrational Structure of Oxide Superlattices,” was published Jan. 26 in Nature. Their discovery emerged from a long-standing collaboration of microscopy, spectroscopy and theory experts spanning fields from physics to engineering to materials science. Eric Hoglund, first author and post...
Bruce Greyson, among the pioneering researchers to investigate near-death experiences, describes the profound and long-lasting effects that such encounters can have for the people who live through them
Compared to other historical figures, Tocqueville’s life and work seem to be anything except exciting. But if you read between the lines of his biographies – including an upcoming one written by social historian and University of Virginia professor Olivier Zunz – you will find a narrative that is every bit as moving as that of Maximilian Robespierre, Napoleon Bonaparte, or the Marquis de Lafayette.
Simulation models suggest that Omicron eventually spreads and will affect nearly as much of the population as it would have without curfew. These were some of the findings submitted by researchers from the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre, and Indian Institute of Science, who collaborated with Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia. They found that the pattern of weeknight and weekend curfew, followed by relaxations during the weekday, seems, at best, to slow and delay the spread.
Validating the government’s decision to lift night curfew from Monday and to reopen schools, a case study of Bengaluru Urban on the impact of daily night and weekend curfews concluded that the restrictions, at best, slow and delay the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. Authored by eight researchers from the Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru Centre; Centre for Networked Intelligence, Indian Institute of Science and the Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia, the study was published on the pre-print server medRxiv on Jan. 26
In a 2003 interview with UVA’s Miller Center, Peter Wallison, Reagan’s White House counsel at the time of Scalia’s appointment in 1986, said that Reagan “wanted to be sure that he could appoint the first Italian-American … he felt that it would be great to put an Italian-American on the Supreme Court.” “Reagan had asked me whether Scalia was of Italian extraction,” Wallison said, according to the Miller Center’s interview transcript. “I think he used the word ‘extraction,’ and I said, ‘Yes, he’s of Italian extraction.’ Reagan said, ‘That’s the man I want to nominate, so I want to meet him.’”
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Most American adults don’t know that alcohol boosts cancer risk, but a majority support steps to increase awareness of the link, a new nationwide survey shows. “It is important that people are made fully aware of the potential harms of alcohol so that they may make informed decisions about alcohol consumption,” said study author Kara Wiseman. She’s an assistant professor of public health sciences at the UVA School of Medicine.
All of Northern Virginia is seeing a declining growth trajectory in COVID-19 cases, while the Northern Neck, parts of Southside Virginia and Southwest Virginia are still dealing with “in surge” status due to the omicron variant of the coronavirus, according to researchers at the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute.
Models with the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute suggest the high point of the current COVID-19 wave has passed, but cases will remain extremely elevated through March. “Models forecast rapid decline across the state in the coming weeks, though cases could rise if Virginians relax prevention measures,” researchers wrote in Friday’s interim report.
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The foundation for the University of Virginia’s new School of Data Science will begin to take shape in the coming months at the corner of Emmet Street and Ivy Road. The $35 million, 61,000-square-foot building is expected to open to students in spring 2024. It sits on part of a 14-acre site that formerly housed the Cavalier Inn. Additional plans for the site include a hotel, a performing arts center and other academic buildings.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares says universities cannot make students get the COVID-19 vaccine. In his first legal opinion, issued Friday, he says the General Assembly would first have to issue a law. A University of Virginia law professor says in the short term, there will not be any changes but Miyares’ opinion could have some long-term impacts. “Most students and most faculty have already not only been vaccinated, but gotten boosters,” Margaret Riley said.
The UVA athletics department is partnering with Altius Sports Partners to provide strategic guidance in enhancing the school’s name, image and likeness program, the school announced Friday. The partnership will feature workshops for all student-athletes across 27 sports, plus coaches and staff.
A Bengaluru-specific study has revealed that India’s night curfew and weekend curfew slowed and delayed the spread of omicron, at best. “Omicron eventually spreads and affects nearly as much of the population as it would have without the restrictions,” said the case study, conducted by experts from the Indian Statistical Institute, Indian Institute of Science and UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute.
UVA critical care physician Taison Bell says omicron is milder in the same way that a hurricane can be milder than a tornado: The tornado may cut a more destructive path with high-wind speeds, but the hurricane has a much bigger footprint. “When you have so many more people who are being affected by the storm, you are still going to end up with an overwhelmed health care system,” says Bell, an assistant professor of medicine.
It looks to be a sublime matchup of contrasts when first-time grand slam finalist Danielle Collins of the United States [a UVA alumna] takes on Australian native and world No 1 Ash Barty in the Australian Open final on Saturday in Melbourne. While Barty, seeking her third major title, is the clear favorite she’ll have to stave off the inspired Collins, who is in the best form of her career.