Students are back on Grounds at the University of Virginia, and there are no gathering limits in place this academic year. However, there is a temporary indoor masking policy in effect that will be re-evaluated on Sept. 6.
(Co-written by Naomi Cahn, professor of law) When embryologist Joseph Conaghan arrived at work at San Francisco’s Pacific Fertility Center on March 4, 2018, nothing seemed awry. He did routine inspections of the facility’s cryogenic tanks, which store frozen embryos and eggs for clients who hope to someday have biological children. But what he found was not routine; it was an emergency.
If Aetna customers’ pharmacy benefit provider and pharmacy services provider merge, it could be difficult for them to go outside their network for pharmacy benefits, and their pharmacy options could diminish, said Dr. Michael Williams, an associate professor of surgery and director of UVA’s Center for Health Policy. Consumers might find they have fewer choices about where they can get services, or what they’ll pay – but those services might be more convenient.
While there is no widely accepted definition of near-death experiences, the term typically refers to the mystical, profound experiences that people report when they are close to death. They’re most common in patients who survive severe head trauma or cardiac arrest. In other words, “conditions in which you would die, and stay dead, unless somebody instituted emergency medical procedures to help you,” says Bruce Greyson, a UVA psychiatrist who has studied NDEs for nearly 50 years.
Carla Williams grew up in LaGrange and is now the first African American female athletic director in her conference at the University of Virginia. Being that she credits the William J. Griggs Recreation Center as the reason behind her success, she reached out to Calloway Foundations and asked them to fund the renovation of this historic landmark.
August 28 is the birthday of American poet Rita Dove, who reportedly told Black American Literature Forum,”There’s no reason to subscribe authors to particular genres. I’m a writer, and I write in the form that most suits what I want to say.” Dove is the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.
The temblor kicked up memories of the tumultuous aftermath of Haiti’s 2010 quake, of tent cities rife with illness and sexual abuse and of an international humanitarian response that largely excluded local people from decision-making. Since 2010, Haiti has been held up as an example of all that can go wrong with international disaster assistance. But this time, local and foreign aid workers say, things may be different. That’s because last time around, “we learned a lot about community-driven support” and “how can the international system support local efforts instead of the other way around,”...
It can feel like a data breach happens every month – involving emails, gas lines, grocery stores, hospitals – to the point that it can be numbing to consumers, says Kimberly Whitler, an associate business professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. “Data breaches used to be shocking. Think back to the Target breach or the Yahoo breach in 2016,” Whitler says. “Now they’re sort of a part of modern life.”
Payment processors are well within their rights to determine what transactions they will and won’t support on their networks. In that respect, they are not that different from platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, who are massively powerful in their own right, said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Virginia studying online content moderation and who also helps lead the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a group that advocates against nonconsensual porn.
The current precedent holds that as long as a law is generally applicable and on its face neutral, it doesn’t amount to religious discrimination. This is particularly the case when the government has a real and compelling reason, such as public health, to refuse exemptions—which legal scholars say certainly applies here. “I am about as strong a supporter of religious exemptions as you can find in legal academia,” said Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, in an email. “And I think that under the general law of religious liberty, including the Constitution and s...
(Video) The more contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 is ravaging the south. As Manuel Bojorquez reports, hospitalizations are spiking in the southern states. Then, Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at the University of Virginia, joins CBSN’s Lana Zak to discuss the coronavirus news of the day.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said Biden failed to meet the moment. “His message and his demeanor and his tone have deteriorated,” Perry said. She said Biden made a strong case in his first speech Monday after the Taliban takeover but flopped with a defensive tone in an interview Wednesday with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. She said Biden needed to be more prepared and precise on the plan moving forward. “In this modern age of social media, presidents in the White House have to have control of their message and narrative all the t...
Helena Zeweri, a professor of global studies at the University of Virginia, was born in the United States, but has watched in horror as the country her parents evacuated in the late 1970s is once again in a state of violence and chaos. “I have family members who are stuck and we’re trying to help them. I’m still processing it. I mean the first reaction I think I had was this is the human fallout of unbridled imperialism and corruption in the government. This is the human consequences of that,” she said.
(Commentary – and art – by Ashon Crawley, associate professor of religious studies and African American and African studies) There was so much loss. Rumors and gossip were in the atmosphere. The hushed conversations and whispers felt unavoidable. These rumors, this gossip, is the reason I didn’t want to be a musician of the infamous Hammond B-3 organ or be a choir director, though I had an affinity for and joy in this music. Because, even at a young age, I was able to sense a relationship between the genius musicians performing those chord progressions, the flamboyant choir directors moving th...
The Blue Ridge Health District said Friday that in conjunction with the University of Virginia Medical Center, it would offer free COVID tests in the Charlottesville area five days a week to meet local demand. UVa is offering tests Monday nights at The Church of the Incarnation and Tuesdays at Mount Zion First African Baptist Church. On the other three days of the week, BRHD staff will be in the parking lot outside the former JC Penney at Fashion Square mall.
UVA Health is improving its standard of care by opening a new training space to help kidney patients. Some pediatric patients require treatments at home, like dialysis. The Family Education Room in the Battle Building will be a place where parents can learn how to confidently care for their child.
In its weekly report Friday, the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute says 33 of the state’s 35 health districts are experiencing a surge in cases. The only health districts not in surge are Fairfax County and Alexandria. The institute continues to project that the number of new cases by mid-September could rival the January peak of over 6,000 a day.
University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute has put out a model predicting a spike of delta variant cases in late August. The model shows a possibility of 1,531 cases at its peak in the first week of UVA undergrad classes. “The really good news is the vaccine works wonderfully well against the delta variant,” UVA Medical Center Dr. Bill Petri said. “So that vaccine that we all received last winter, spring is still very effective even though this is a mutated virus.”
Amid a backdrop of growing COVID-19 cases in all corners of the commonwealth, a projected surge could be staved off if Virginians practice the “tried-and-true” prevention methods, a new report stated. The University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute’s projections are designed to show what could happen if things continue on a certain path. Currently, models suggest by September COVID-19 cases could easily exceed the high records set in January.