Starting next year, those covered by Humana will get in-network access to the University of Virginia’s hospitals, clinics and physicians. The university announced Thursday morning the agreement, which is set to take effect Jan. 1. The partnership affects more than 10,000 people covered by Humana’s Medicare Advantage plans and Humana’s Commonwealth Coordinated Care Plan.
Dr. Joann Pinkerton, medical director of the Midlife Health Center, told Prevention that some lifestyle changes can help to reduce symptoms. These include increasing physical activity and including more calcium-rich foods into a diet.
When complete, it will be where advisors in all the university’s departments will hold regular office hours, meeting with students to discuss financial issues, coursework and opportunities for research and study abroad.
“This could open up years of litigation and settlements in the same way that tobacco litigation did, also spearheaded by attorneys general,” said UVA School of Law professor Brandon L. Garrett.
On Wednesday, medical students and professionals at the University of Virginia heard from Ian Crozier, an infectious diseases doctor who contracted and survived Ebola last year.
Last year’s Ebola epidemic has begun to fade from public memory, but the effects still linger in thousands of survivors, including Dr. Ian Crozier — a physician deployed in Sierra Leone for the World Health Organization last year. Crozier was at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine on Wednesday afternoon to talk about his experience.
The Republican victories came despite a major advertising push by Democrats and the independent political groups that back them. Democratic-affiliated advertisers spent more than $155,000 on political ads on average compared with the $85,000 that Republicans spent on average in the mainly red-leaning states “The ad spending in these races can almost be like trench warfare,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “You put in a bunch of resources and the lines don’t move that much.”
The University of Virginia has now announced that second-year student Claire Romaine is to be the recipient of the inaugural presentation of the Hannah Graham Memorial Award, which was created to honor the 'destinies of high promise,” that UVa's founder Thomas Jefferson spoke of; and which Ms. Graham and Ms. Romaine have had in common.
A 2011 University of Virginia study found that surgical Medicaid patients are 13 percent more likely to die than those without insurance. Avik Roy wrote in Forbes that of the 893,658 surgical operations between 2003-2007, with normalized results for age, gender, income, geographical locations, operation, and 30 diseases–Medicaid patients were twice as likely to die before leaving the hospital than Americans who have private insurance.
Virginia's dairy industry has a big economic footprint in Virginia, with nearly 8,000 people directly employed in the milking business. A study by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia found that the dairy industry has a $3.2 billion economic output.
Some new twists are happening at this year’s Virginia Film Festival, which begins Thursday and runs through Sunday. The headquarters for the 28th annual event are at the new Violet Crown Charlottesville, and films will be shown for the first time at The Southern Café and Music Hall for the first time. Showings also will return to Vinegar Hill, which is now owned and operated by Lighthouse Studio.
Beyond all the glitz and glam and celebrity appearances, there’s no better place to be a lover of film in its purest form than at a festival. Between the premieres and sneak peeks of future hit films before award buzz and marketing tactics dominate the conversation, the risky endeavors attempting to court distribution deals and the independent and short work that you may never have the opportunity to see projected onto a screen again, festivals are the ultimate destination for any true cinephile. It is in this spirit that the Virginia Film Festival welcomes noted critic and historian Leo...
Here’s WTJU correspondent Emily Richardson-Lorente speaking with University of Virginia professor Ryan McGuire about the ghost in the MP3 file. As Emily writes, “What’s lost when a song is compressed into an MP3? To the untrained ear — perhaps nothing. But to Ryan Maguire, a PhD student in Composition and Computer Technologies at UVA, the data that’s lost in MP3 compression is something to be mined. In fact, it’s the source of his stunning and ghostly ‘lost sound’ compositions. He spoke to Soundboard’s Emily Richardson-Lor...
LeiLei Secor, from upstate New York, paid for college by selling handmade jewelry on Etsy. The University of Virginia undergrad combined her artistry and business acumen to raise more than $100,000 in three years on her shop, DesignedByLei. Now she doesn’t have to stress over student loans.
"I Am the Law" is a weekly podcast produced by nonprofit legal education policy organization Law School Transparency. The show educates prospective and current law students about the realities of practicing law in order to help them pursue jobs that will satisfy them. Prospective students can listen to these interviews with law school graduates to explore possible career paths, improve the job search process and learn key questions to ask during informational and job interviews. In this week's episode, host Mike Spivey speaks with Rachel Spears, a graduate of ...
A total of 122 Virginia legislators sought re-election Tuesday. Not a one was defeated. “In modern times, it is apparently unprecedented,” said UVA’s Larry Sabato.
There is still “conflict within the industry about what the role of Chinese media culture should be,” says Aynne Kokas, an assistant professor in the department of media studies whose research focuses on the Hollywood-China relationship.
Ian Crozier was deployed by the World Health Organization to care for patients in Sierra Leone. Three weeks later, he contracted Ebola.
A surprise discovery by a University of Virginia research team could have big implications for treating numerous serious illnesses. UVa researcher Dr. Tom Braciale was studying the role of a certain type of cell in the lungs when he and his team stumbled on a way to create new red blood cells. Red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body, and the discovery could lead to treatments for anemia, diabetes and even cancer.
Scientists at the University of Virginia have discovered a new and faster way to purify water. The MadiDrop tablet is now on track to become commercially available in countries around the world. "It’s just a ceramic tablet that we can drop into water storage container. It gradually releases silver ions to disinfect the water and it doesn't change the taste of the water," said James Smith, chief scientist for the project.