The long-term use of medications commonly prescribed treat high blood pressure may cause kidney damage, according to new research published in JCI Insight. The study's authors noted that medications such as ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers have all been associated with hardened kidney vessels, which can lead to permanent organ damage. “Our studies show that renin-producing cells are responsible for the damage,” co-author Dr. Maria Luisa Sequeira Lopez of the University of Virginia department of pediatrics, said. “We are now focusing on understanding how these cells, which are s...
New kidney research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is raising concerns that long-term use of drugs commonly prescribed to treat high-blood pressure and heart failure could be contributing to kidney damage, according to a news release.
The City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia are holding a climate action roundtable. The virtual event will be held on Jan. 20 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Those attending "Climate Action Together: A Roundtable Discussion About Local Implications of Climate Change on Our Community's Health, Safety, and Ecology" will get to "learn about specific challenges associated with extreme rainfall, heat waves, and seasonal changes from the perspectives of several public servants and about upcoming opportunities to participate in preparation for changes we expect to see," accord...
The Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce and the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service announced Tuesday their Advancing Civics partnership to encourage collaboration among business and government leaders.
Before the pandemic, the University of Virginia launched the Africa Scholarship Cohort in partnership with nonprofit, Distance Education for Africa (DeAfrica), and Coursera to improve gender equity and economic impact by offering scholarships to over 34,000 learners across 54 nations in Africa.
(Press release) The Ag. Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, Prof. Andy Ofori-Birikorang, has called on former Mayor of Charlottesville, Mr. Dave Norris, to assist the University to forge academic collaborations with the University of Virginia.
(Press release) On Thursday, leading public, private, educational and research organizations across the U.S. health care and life sciences industries announced the formation of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Coalition. The coalition brings together the Brookings Institution, Cleveland Clinic, Duke Health, Intermountain Healthcare, Microsoft, Novant Health, Plug and Play, Providence, UC San Diego, and University of Virginia with the goal of maximizing technology to provide recommendations, tooling and best practices for AI in health care.
The University of Pennsylvania nominated M. Elizabeth Magill, University of Virginia’s provost and a former dean of Stanford’s law school, as its new president. Magill, 56, a scholar of constitutional law, begins July 1, following a board of trustees vote in March, the Ivy League school said Thursday in a statement.
University of Virginia Provost Liz Magill will leave the university to take the reins of the University of Pennsylvania as that school’s president, officials announced Thursday.
Former Virginia football All-American Jamshid “Jim” Bakhtiar died Sunday at the age of 88. A native of Tehran, Iran, Bakhtiar came to the United States as an 11-year-old in 1946. He began playing football as a youngster growing up in Washington, D.C., first at Wilson High School and then at the Bullis School. Recruited to UVA, Bahktiar starred as a fullback and linebacker during his college career from 1955-57.
The UVA Medical Center says it is dealing with a blood shortage that could cause issues with patients needing major surgeries. The Red Cross says the Jan. 3 snowstorm caused a major hit to its supply.
More than any other state, Georgia was the linchpin of Democrats’ fortunes in 2020 – the Republican stronghold that not only flipped for President Biden, but delivered the Senate to him, said Larry Sabato, the veteran political analyst and director of the UVA Center for Politics. “That’s why the new voting rules in Georgia and elsewhere matter so much,” he said. “Will they shave just enough votes from the Democratic column to put Republicans firmly back in the driver’s seat?”
In an unexpected turn, the Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC roster for the upcoming season lost one valuable veteran, as midfielder Todd Wharton announced his retirement through a club statement and via his Instagram account on Tuesday. Wharton was a 2014 NCAA champion at the University of Virginia and finished his four-year career with the Cavaliers in 2015.
A summer internship at American Express in 2021 not only led to an offer for a full-time job at the company’s New York City office when Mausam Mehta graduates from UVA in May, it also taught her the importance of presenting her authentic self to her employer and advocating on her own behalf. Mehta, who is legally blind, had wrestled with whether to disclose her disability to recruiters when applying for internships.
It doesn’t take much for those kinds of temperatures to cause harm to a person. “The cause of death with hypothermia would just be a cardiac arrest, the heart eventually stops,” said Dr. Bill Petri at UVA Health.
Dr. William Petri, professor of medicine and vice chair for research at UVA’s Department of Medicine, said that both the flu and COVID-19 infect the epithelial cells in the lungs, and that infection could worsen as more cells get involved. He stressed that with vaccines and boosters, along with mask wearing, social distancing, and COVID-19 testing, the “individual has some ability to chart their own course.”
“WhatsApp worked as an ecosystem [where Bolsonaro’s supporters] produced and circulated their news, which is basically fake news. But because WhatsApp has been working to slow down misinformation, they then migrated to Telegram,” said David Nemer, a Brazilian professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
“The whole idea here is to push the frontiers of robotics and artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles in general, and we do so by demonstrating how stable our cars are, that they can really go safely at 150 mph.” said UVA computer science professor Madhur Behl, who also serves as principal for the Cavalier Autonomous Racing Team.
“I think that it’s just harder to make Trump an issue when he is not actually president. Biden is president now and particularly in off-year, midterm elections, those elections are often a referendum on the sitting president,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Law professor Deirdre Enright, founder of the UVA Innocence Project, helped investigate Johnson’s case and confirm the real robber. She said she was mystified about why the Northam administration couldn’t act on the request for an absolute pardon in four years when the facts McAuliffe had remain the same. “It’s a slam dunk on innocence,” she said. “We’ve solved the crime, we got an affidavit from the guy who did it. ... I just don’t understand what the problem is.”