A majority of Virginia voters back the University of Virginia’s decision to dis-enroll unvaccinated students, according to a poll released Wednesday. A Monmouth University Poll survey showed 53 percent of respondents agreed that students who did not get the vaccine should be disenrolled, while 43 percent disagreed.
People don’t realize changes influenced by fluctuating hormones can impact their everyday lives for the next five to 10 years. “Not only is it not talked about, but unless you really understand what’s going on, you may not understand why you’re suddenly getting acne again or having more facial hair due to perimenopause,” says JoAnn V. Pinkerton, a UVA professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
A majority of voters in Virginia support the University of Virginia’s policy to unenroll students who did not get the COVID-19 vaccine or apply for a religious or medical exemption, according to a new poll.
For UVA and UCLA alumnus Paul Murdoch, Saturday will mark a particularly poignant anniversary. In 2005, the Los Angeles architect and his team were selected from more than a thousand candidates to create a national memorial at the Flight 93 crash site. Since then, they have worked with the National Park Service, Virginia-based landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz and the bereaved families to design and build the memorial and park, which spans a 2,200-acre decommissioned coal mine just outside of Shanksville.
At the University of Virginia, the Afghan Student Association has hosted two rallies on Grounds to raise awareness about the crisis in Afghanistan, and organized social media campaigns to educate people on ways to support refugees. In addition, the group has been working with fellow student group Muslims United to collect donations and provide assistance with translation. “We’ve been trying to keep in contact with [the families], meet them, and let them know they have people in the community and UVA students they can count on who have access to a lot of resources here,” says fourth-year studen...
A group of University of Virginia students will be displaying American flags to honor the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001 this weekend. Young Americans for Freedom at UVA is working with the Young America’s Foundation to organize the local 9/11: Never Forget Project.
(Commentary) Biden’s mishandling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan cost American lives and jeopardized national security. But why does admitting that feel like a betrayal? Why was I so quick to judge Republicans unable to see Trump’s flaws while doing the same thing within the Democratic Party? Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, points to political tribalism manifesting more political hypocrisy. “It’s a function of our extreme partisan polarization, and really, it justifies anything,” he said. “Hypocrisy is the lifeblood of politics.”
Barring the polls, the main concern for Newsom remains getting Democratic base voters engaged and aware that they need to turn out for an unusually timed election, according to Kyle Kondik, a nonpartisan political analyst at the University of Virginia. “The main problem for Newsom is making sure that Democratic turnout is robust enough to save him,” Kondik said. “One way to do that is to bring in high-profile surrogates who will get a lot of news coverage, and will help spread the word about the fact that the recall is happening. And from a Democratic perspective, it’s hard to find two people ...
A 25-page document with 225 references, the position statement was composed by a six-person editorial panel led by McClung and Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, division director of Midlife Health with UVA Health, who were tasked with reviewing and updating the 2010 statement as well as reviewing new evidence for inclusion. To mold the current position statement, the panel reviewed studies published in English related to osteoporosis management in postmenopausal women, with priority given to randomized clinical trials and meta-analyses of these trials.
There’s more to finding a mortgage lender than simply securing the lowest interest rate. Just ask Elena Loutskina, professor of business administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, who told Investopedia recently, “If the consumer wants to be protected, it’s the education that’s the most important thing.”
You’ve noticed that a colleague has been under stress and isn’t her usual self. You’re concerned, but how can you approach in a productive, constructive way that doesn’t prompt a backlash or shutdown? It doesn’t come naturally for most people, physicians included, who were raised in an American culture. “A respectful check is really one of the more difficult and challenging steps for individuals, in part, because we learn socially in the United States that if somebody is having a bad day, give them their space or leave them alone. So, we have very little skill in our society of respectfully en...
(Commentary) It is important to understand these small-p political roots of this opposition or you could easily miss amid the din of attacks the most important fact: the evidence supports Alberta’s approach. And it isn’t close. Dan Willingham, a professor at the University of Virginia who studies the application of new findings in cognitive science to education, has written that “(d)ata from the last 30 years lead to a conclusion that is not scientifically challengeable: thinking well requires knowing facts.”
“They are very clever in how they advertise,” Dr Rachel Moon tells me about baby sleep tech devices, when I reach her at the University of Virginia, where she is the division head of general pediatrics. She also serves on the AAP’s task force on Sids and has been a practicing pediatrician for more than 30 years. “They never say that this will prevent Sids, but they come pretty close.”
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at the Darden School of Business) China’s transformation from a backward economy in the early 1980s to an economic and financial superpower today stands out as one of the most remarkable achievements in history. The origins can be traced to structural reforms Deng Xiaoping introduced to utilize market forces to shift China’s economy away from reliance on inefficient state-owned enterprises.
The rise in cases is putting a strain on resources at the University of Virginia Medical Center. “We also have seen some shortages of medications, for example, associated with COVID-19,” Dr. Patrick Jackson said. “One drug that’s in national shortage right now is a drug called Tocilizumab. It’s a drug that’s used for the most severe cases of COVID-19 and it’s also used to manage some side effects of kind of a last line cancer treatment.”
Stephen Rich’s group at UVA along with John Todd’s team at the University of Oxford, have been tracing the genes responsible for type 1 diabetes for years. In 2009 the team conducted the largest GWAS metanalysis of type 1 diabetes, identifying 60 loci that likely influenced incidence. Since then, they’ve used increasingly sophisticated technologies to better understand the genetic underpinnings of this complex disease.
The National Science Foundation is funding a $697,914 research project led by a Washington University professor and other researchers to study how Black parents speak to their children about racial violence. Sheretta Butler-Barnes, an associate professor in the Brown School at Wash U, will work with researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Forecasting the course of the coronavirus pandemic – now poised to extend into a second full year – is sometimes like the weather. When there’s a threat of severe storms or flooding, phones often buzz with alerts. For the researchers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, the warning system is similar. When scientists see trends for increased COVID-19 caseloads, they sound the alarms so the public is aware of the threat.
Another study from the University of Virginia, published as a research letter in JAMA on September 2, found there was no difference in antibody response between age groups with Moderna’s vaccine, but that Pfizer’s produced a lower antibody response in people aged 50 and older. The researchers said that the differences between the vaccines could “relate” to the amount of mRNA in them.
People who received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine had “slightly higher” antibody levels than those who received the Pfizer, now formally called Comirnaty, shot, according to a new small study. While both vaccines insert molecules called mRNA that teach our bodies how to produce coronavirus antibodies, the Moderna shot uses more than three times the amount of mRNA than the Pfizer vaccine. This, the University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers say, could explain their findings.