(Commentary) University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash argues (in “Imperial from the Beginning: The Constitution of the Original Executive”) that although there is no constitutional privilege of presidential privacy, neither is there a constitutional authority for Congress to demand information. In his “The Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers,” Prakash says one purpose for the increasing frequency of executive refusals to comply with congressional demands for information and testimony is “stymieing congressional investigations of...
Julie Bargmann, a professor at the University of Virginia and founder of D.I.R.T. (Dump It Right There) studio, has spent the last 30 years transforming postindustrial and sometimes toxic sites into aesthetically appealing spaces. Multi-disciplinary collaborations with architects, historians, engineers, hydrogeologists, artists, and, most importantly, the residents of the area in which she is working are hallmarks of Bargmann’s approach.
In cases that are not fatal but in which the abuse is long-term, repeated burst blood vessels and lack of oxygen to the brain may cause blood clots, stroke, and other traumatic brain injuries, according to Kathryn Laughon, an associate professor of nursing at the University of Virginia who studies the effects of strangulation.
In fact, Facebook has been hinting at a rebrand for years, according to Siva Vaidyanathan, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia, whose book, “Antisocial Media,” examines the company’s sins. “The Facebook of today has never been the end game for Zuckerberg,” Vaidyanathan says. “He’s always wanted his company to be the operating system of our lives that can socially engineer how we live and what we know.”
(Commentary) Americans, the story goes, have always had a special relationship with the automobile, cherishing the freedom that a car or truck can provide. University of Virginia history professor Peter Norton has traced the idea to Groucho Marx, who spoke of a “burning love affair” between Americans and automobiles while hosting a television show in 1961. The idea stuck.
13News Now asked University of Virginia Infectious Disease Professor Dr. Bill Petri about the safety of mixing vaccines. Petri said mixing is safe because of an intensive study conducted at the University of Maryland. “They actually tried every single combination of the three vaccines that we have. So it will be like nine different ways of mixing and matching vaccines and the really good news is, it works great however you do it,” said Petri. Petri said mixing the vaccines also proved to be effective too. “There’s actually no way you can go wrong with this. You get about a 20-fold increase in ...
It may be time to throw out your onions. A salmonella outbreak linked to onions has sickened more than 600 people, including 59 in Virginia. White, yellow, or red onions without a sticker to confirm where they were grown could be dangerous. Dr. Bill Petri, a University of Virginia infectious disease specialist says reach out to your doctor for antibiotics if you develop a fever. “It was onions from Chihuahua, Mexico that were imported and contaminated with salmonella. It probably happened because the water that was used to irrigate the field was contaminated,” Petri said.
At Augusta Health, COVID patients still make up a large percentage of the adult inpatient population, 22%. At nearby UVA Health, they account for just 10%, even though UVA is almost twice as large a hospital.
UVA Health is one of dozens of hospitals getting funding to expand their telehealth options. According to a release, the Federal Communication Commission approved an additional 71 applications for funding commitment on Thursday. These commitments total more than $40.4 million for Round 2 of the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program.
Drug shortages are impacting the treatment of COVID-19 patients in Charlottesville. It all comes down to a medication called Tocilizumab, which reduces inflammation in COVID patients. It’s given as a last effort to help keep people off of ventilators, and studies show it works. “This has really forced us to make hard decisions about which patients get prioritized for this drug,” said Dr. Patrick Jackson at UVA Health. “It’s one of our last medications that we have available to really change how the immune system is responding to the inflammation.”
America’s hospitals are undergoing another emergency: The pandemic has worsened a decade-long shortage of hundreds of needed drugs. At the University of Virginia’s medical center, technicians are filling single-dose drug orders for nearly 700 patients. Assistant pharmacy manager Brian Spoehlhof’s job is to find drugs in short supply. “By the time I come in, we have a new list of new medications that are short,” Spoehlhof said. Spoehlhof said he is constantly looking for about 90 critical drugs.
It’s a rare form of epilepsy known for causing uncontrollable seizures in children, but there’s hope following a three-year study at the University of Virginia. Dr. Manoj Patel is part of a research team at UVA’s School of Medicine that’s been working for years with children suffering from SCN8A epileptic encephalopathy, a neurological condition that causes children to suffer sometimes hundreds of seizures per day.
(Podcast) Two professors at the University of Virginia proposed a tax subsidy to increase civic engagement and volunteering in a time of income inequality and political polarization. In their paper, The Charitable Tax Deduction and Civic Engagement, Andrew Hayashi and Justin Hopkins propose that all taxpayers with adjusted gross income less than the national median would get the Community Contribution Credit. Hayashi is a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and Hopkins is a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
UVA researchers have found that the antidepressant best known as Prozac could be the first effective treatment against age-related macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of blindness among people over the age of 50.
ParkMobile has more than 23 million users across the country and is already used in several cities across the commonwealth. The service already accepts contactless payments on the West Second Street Lot and some University of Virginia parking facilities as well as some privately-owned parking lots in the city.
Bertha French and DeTeasa Gathers, co-chairs of the Descendants of Enslaved Communities at the University of Virginia, wrote that the project “will take our city’s painful history and turn it into an opportunity for healing. […] we hope you give us the opportunity to participate in shaping the narrative about our city.”
The overwhelming majority of employees at the top three Virginia public universities who contributed campaign money throughout 2019 and 2020 donated to Democrats, a Campus Reform analysis has revealed. Using publicly available data from the Federal Election Commission, Campus Reform analyzed the donation records of the employees of the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and George Mason University in 2019 and 2020. According to the analysis, University of Virginia faculty, staff, and administrators donated over $972,242 to left-leaning candidates and political committees as opposed to just ...
McAuliffe’s campaign is launching its own bus tour on Friday in Northern Virginia, kicking it off with his wife Dorothy McAuliffe, Attorney General Mark Herring (D), and lieutenant gubernatorial nominee Del. Hala Ayala (D). The bus’s first stop will be at a small business and the second stop will be with actor Blake Cooper Griffin at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia has issued an order in compliance with President Biden’s Sept. 9 executive order involving federal contractors regarding COVID vaccinations. UVA employees must be fully vaccinated by Dec. 8.