Low-cost antihypertensive drugs appeared associated with reductions in colorectal cancer-specific mortality among patients with stage I to stage III disease, according to results of a retrospective analysis published in Cancer Medicine. “Existing treatments for colorectal cancer cost upwards of several hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, but these agents have been shown to prolong survival only by three months to six months,” Rajesh Balkrishnan, a member of the cancer population health sciences program at University of Virginia Cancer Center, said. “Antihypertensive agents have been aro...
An international study has found that antibiotics alone cannot overcome the various factors that may cause stunted growth in children. According to a UVA release, researchers had hoped that some combination of antibiotics, vitamin B3 and a diarrhea treatment drug would lead to better growth for children in Tanzania. A double-blind study followed almost 1,200 children and found no benefit.
Previous research out of the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University showed a representative’s law-passing skills have no significant impact on vote share in general elections, mostly because voters have no clue whether their representative is any good at passing laws or not.
A new study found more than half of Trump voters in 2020 supported red states seceding from blue states. This research comes out of the UVA Center for Politics. Larry Sabato and J. Miles Coleman of the Center for Politics say politics are now personal and impact life both in-person and online for many people, causing deep division.
(Commentary) Divorce usually isn’t a good idea, and that’s especially true of a nearly 250-year-old continental nation. The notion of a national breakup has long simmered as a fringe argument, but it is increasingly popular in certain precincts of the political right and has gained at least some traction with partisans of both sides. A recent survey by the UVA Center for Politics found that about 50% of Donald Trump voters and 40% of Joe Biden voters agreed to some extent with the proposition that the country should split up, with either red or blue states seceding.
That ubiquity has essentially turned WhatsApp into a public utility: It’s so crucial to global communications infrastructure that when it goes down, entire countries, segments of their economies, and even some basic daily governmental activities nearly grind to a halt. “It was basically like the entire internet was out. That was the perception” in Brazil, said David Nemer, a UVA media studies professor. A native Brazilian, Nemer has studied WhatsApp’s impact on the country.
Kim Forde-Mazrui, a professor at the UVA School of Law, said police held “a fairly privileged perspective” to think of a situation involving the repeated used of the n-word and monkey noises as “a sticks-and-stones matter. … The city and police department are being cowardly for not intervening and, if necessary, bringing charges so that a court can decide whether this is constitutionally protected,” Forde-Mazrui said.
84% of Trump voters worry about discrimination against whites and think Christianity is under attack
New polling released today by Project Home Fire in partnership with UVA’s Center for Politics has found that Trump voters are animated by concerns about anti-white discrimination and the fate of Christianity in America.
Naomi Alligator, the project of Los Angeles-based songwriter and multi-media artist [and UVA alumna] Corrinne James, shares a video for “Anywhere Else,” the new single from her upcoming EP and Carpark Records debut, “Concession Stand Girl.” Inspired by the sparse and confessional qualities of Liz Phair’s early portastudio recordings, James uses the project as her own musical journal to share and process personal anecdotes. Her modern folk production and poetic songwriting links the sounds of artists like Joan Baez and Steeleye Span to a 21st-century context.
Also confirmed Tuesday to serve as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia, which covers the rest of the state, was Chris Kavanaugh an assistant U.S. attorney, said the offices of U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine. Kavanaugh is the senior counsel to the deputy attorney general. He has practiced before every judge in the Western District and has worked in the U.S. Attorney’s office since 2014, handling a wide variety of federal criminal offenses involving domestic terrorism, civil rights violations, national security, white-collar offenses and violent crimes. Kavanaugh received...
The Lebanese writer [the Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at UVA this year] wants to change the world, one novel at a time.
“The past decade and a half has been one of the best stretches of my life,” Koehn said. “I do mean that … I know that Charlottesville and UVa is forever going to be a part of who I am. You know the saying, once a Wahoo, always a Wahoo.”
The Milwaukee Bucks have hired Dave Koehn as their new radio play-by-play voice. He replaces Ted Davis who retired after last season. Davis had been with the team for 24 years. Koehn comes from the University of Virginia where he has done radio and been director of broadcasting since 2008.
(Commentary) Virginia election expert Larry Sabato said that Biden’s woes are impacting the McAuliffe-Youngkin race big-time. “It’s obvious from history that a president’s popularity — or lack of it — is a factor in off-year elections. Biden’s drop in the polls couldn’t have been more poorly timed from McAuliffe’s perspective. Add to that the Democrats’ Keystone Kops performance in Congress,” he said. “If Democrats get their act together before November 2nd, a reasonable assumption is that Biden’s ratings would tick up and help McAuliffe, if only because it would increase Democratic voters’ li...
There is also evidence that coupling up improves the economic fortunes of couples, both men and women. It’s not that they only have to pay one rent or buy one fridge, say some sociologists who study marriage, it’s that having a partner suggests having a future. “There’s a way in which marriage makes men more responsible, and that makes them better workers,” says University of Virginia sociology professor W. Bradford Wilcox, pointing to a Harvard study that suggests single men are more likely than married men to leave a job before finding another.
Maria Rosario Jackson, if confirmed, will be the first African American and Mexican American to serve as chairperson for the National Endowment for the Arts. Jackson is a professor at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State, where she also holds an appointment in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. She is currently on the advisory boards of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the Equity Center at the University of Virginia, and several arts organizations in Los Angeles.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children have health screenings at 12, 15, 18, 24, 30 and 36 months of age, and once a year after that. Early signs of autism typically appear in the second year of life, so these check-ups are important for early diagnosis. “The earlier you get diagnosed, the better your outcomes are,” says study leader Pamela DeGuzman, associate professor of nursing at the University of Virginia.
When a colleague is experiencing a stress injury leading to this behavior, how can you calm the situation in the moment and for the long hall to ensure physical and psychological safety? “We know that presence is important. Showing up and standing by and asking, ‘Is there anything I can do to help?’” said Richard Westphal, PhD, co-director of the Wisdom and Wellbeing Program at the University of Virginia School of Nursing in Charlottesville. “And in the patient-care environment, if there is a risk to the safety of a co-worker or patient, then you just say, ‘Stop. Freeze. Let’s look at what we’...
As part of my Marketing Strategy Series, I’m talking with fellow marketing pros at the top of their game to give entrepreneurs and marketers an inside look at proven strategies you might also be able to leverage to grow your business or career. Today I had the pleasure of talking with Rajkumar Venkatesan co-author of “The AI Marketing Canvas.” Raj Venkatesan is the Ronald Trzcinski Professor of Business Administration in the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Marketing and Harvard Business Review, among others, and he is the co-a...
(Subsciption may be required; commentary) The author quotes Daniel Willingham, a cognitive scientist at the University of Virginia: “The very processes that teachers care about most,” like critical thinking and problem solving, “are intimately intertwined with factual knowledge that is stored in long-term memory,” writes Daniel Willingham.