Some experts have worried about pre-50 risks of colon cancer in some racial and ethnic groups, and at least one specialty society for gastroenterologists has urged screening of black adults starting at age 45. Dr. Andrew Wolf, the lead author of the latest guidelines, said they considered and rejected that reasoning. "We should be able to do both," said Wolf, a UVA internist.
The Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corp., known as the Virginia Catalyst, announced a $500,000 grant award Wednesday for research on brain injury detection. The collaborative team includes UVA, the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Carilion Medical Center and BRAINBox Solutions Inc., which has its headquarters in Richmond. BRAINBox Solutions will provide a $500,000 funding match.
Researchers have discovered two new vulnerabilities in voice-powered assistants, like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, that can allow attackers to steal sensitive information. In the first security analysis of the VPA ecosystem, researchers from Indiana University, the Chinese Academy of Science and the University of Virginia demonstrated how VPAs could be tricked by simple homophones - words that sound the same but have different meanings.
Benzocaine can lead to a rare but deadly condition called methemoglobinemia, where there is reduced oxygen delivery to the body. Dr. Nathan Charlton, a UVA medical toxicologist, believes that this is a true public safety concern. “While complications are rare, methemoglobinemia does occur and is not something that consumers are generally aware of or understand that they should look for signs and symptoms,” he said.
“We hear ‘Disney,’ and we think kids’ movies and things that everyone just kind of loves,” said Carmenita Higginbotham, a UVA professor who is one of the country’s leading Disney scholars. “And the company likes riding the middle, because that’s where the money is. But now they’re taking all these public hits – they’re going from the middle to riding the edges – and it’s just startling to watch.”
In a paper published in early May, researchers from UVA, Indiana University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified two techniques that could be used to manipulate users into sharing private data with malicious apps.
The Landscape Architecture Foundation has announced the two winners and six finalists for its 2018 Olmsted Scholars Program, a leading national leadership award program for landscape architecture students. Elizabeth Camuti, a master’s student at the University of Virginia, was selected as the 2018 National Olmsted Scholar, receiving the $25,000 graduate prize.
Although the overall cost of hypertension rose, the study found that individual expenses remained stable over time. Patient spending, however, shifted from inpatient to more outpatient, perhaps due to better patient access to preventive and outpatient care under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, Kirkland said. “A reduction in inpatient costs is good,” said cardiovascular endocrinologist Dr. Robert M. Carey, vice chairman of the committee that wrote the 2017 AHA/ACC blood pressure guidelines and dean emeritus of the UVA School of Medicine. “It may mean we’re getting a better handle on blood pressur...
He similarly retweeted University of Virginia Center for Politics director Larry Sabato’s Twitter post praising former President George H. W. Bush’s tweet in which he expressed his "regret” for missing a Memorial Day parade. “What a sane, modest contrast to Trump’s narcissistic tweet this morning making Memorial Day all about him,” Sabato wrote. “But then Bush 41 is a genuine war hero who would have served even with a bone spur in his foot.”
The party is unlikely to select a current General Assembly member, according to Larry J. Sabato, a political analyst and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Selecting a current House of Delegates member would upset a delicate GOP majority in Richmond, Sabato said. The party currently holds a one-seat majority in the Virginia House. “There could be 10 to 12 candidates throwing their hats in the ring,” he said. “It’s such a short time before the filing deadline that they could run for as little as $10,000 to $25,000.”
Then there are the more logistical concerns. Brian Nosek, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who was consulted on the training, worried that Starbucks was moving ahead too quickly. Productive sessions, he said, require concrete goals, specific behavioral standards and a clear metric for evaluating performance. “Training to make a caramel macchiato can be quite effective,” he said. “Training to be unbiased toward your fellow human doesn’t achieve any of those criteria.”
Trump’s habit of making unsubstantiated claims has no precedence in modern U.S. history, said Barbara Perry, the director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia. Before Trump, “Richard Nixon was the closest thing we had to a prevaricating president,” Perry said. “Nixon had always been viewed as a shady character. His nickname was Tricky Dick. But Nixon didn’t typically go out to the American people and tell a big lie every day.”
The question-of-the-week is: How do you avoid teacher burn-out? Response from Patricia Jennings: Jennings is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of social and emotional learning and mindfulness in education with a specific emphasis on teacher stress and how it impacts the social and emotional context of the classroom and student well-being and learning. She is an associate professor of education at UVA’s Curry School of Education.
Michigan State University is hiring the outgoing president of University of Virginia as an adviser to the school's board of trustees as it searches for a new president. Teresa Sullivan, an MSU alumna, is set to leave her post at UVA in July when her contract ends.
Teresa Sullivan, the outgoing president of University of Virginia, has been hired by the Michigan State University Board of Trustees to advise the board on its search for MSU's next president.
(Commentary by Chris Lu, a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center) One of the best-known slogans in recent political history is: "It's the economy, stupid." This simple message helped propel Bill Clinton to the White House in 1992 and later sustained his popularity when he faced impeachment. Candidates over the past quarter century have harkened back to this catchphrase – as incumbents running when the economy is strong or as challengers when the economy is weak. This year, Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are banking on the strength of the U.S. economy to defy the history of big midte...
(Commentary) Hundreds of studies on eyewitness identification have been published in professional and academic journals. One study by University of Virginia Law School professor Brandon L. Garrett, found that eyewitness misidentifications contributed to wrongful convictions in 76 percent of the cases overturned by DNA evidence.
A new discovery about the effects of aging in our cells could allow doctors to cure or prevent diabetes, fatty liver disease and other metabolic diseases -- and possibly even turn back the clock on aging itself. The new finding from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests that fatty liver disease and other unwanted effects of aging may be the result of our cells' nuclei -- the compartment containing our DNA -- getting wrinkly. Those wrinkles appear to prevent our genes from functioning properly, the UVA researchers found.
Science is often a piecemeal process, with each small, new discovery adding another insight into the mysterious mechanisms behind how our bodies work. A new finding from the University of Virginia School of Medicine adds another piece to the puzzle of how cells in our body degrade with age. The potentially revolutionary breakthrough reveals how our cells can wrinkle with age, resulting in genes not being expressed properly. And the solution could be a novel cellular anti-wrinkle cream, delivered by custom-built viruses.
Psychologists at Harvard, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington created "Project Implicit" to develop Hidden Bias Tests—called Implicit Association Tests, or IATs, in the academic world—to measure unconscious bias.