Some previous research has suggested that EKGs may not be a good way to diagnose hyperkalemia, but, to be fair, that research was very limited and tested two human physicians. Another study suggested that EKG readings may not be sensitive enough to catch everyone with hyperkalemia and that the condition doesn’t always cause a different EKG reading. “We don’t know the number, but I can tell you that people do have hyperkalemia with a normal EKG,” says William J. Brady, a professor of internal medicine at UVA’s School of Medicine.
As National Geographic editors prepared an issue dedicated to race, they realized the 130-year-old magazine might face questions about its troubled history on the subject. So they asked John Edwin Mason, a UVA professor who studies the history of Africa and photography, to dig through the magazine’s archives to examine its shortcomings in covering people of color in the United States and abroad. He was unsparing.
Design thinking can help companies swell profit margins, but it can have even more powerful results when deployed in the service of social good, Jeanne Liedtka, professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, said at a panel on design’s social impact at the Fortune, Time, and Wallpaper Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore on March 7.
Naloxone, a drug that rapidly reverses opioid overdose, has become more widely available as the United States struggles with an epidemic of drug abuse. But state laws that provide wider access to naloxone may unintentionally increase opioid abuse, according to a new study. "While naloxone can be a good harm-reduction strategy, it's clear that naloxone access alone is not a solution to the opioid epidemic," said Jennifer Doleac, a study author and a UVA assistant professor of public policy and economics.
With the opioid epidemic claiming more than 100 lives a day in the United States, every state now has some sort of law expanding access to naloxone, an opioid antagonist that makes someone who has overdosed start breathing again. Sometimes, its powers are said to bring an overdose victim “back to life.” That led two economists to wonder, does the prospect of not dying from opioids make people more likely to use opioids? The two researchers – Jennifer Doleac, of the University of Virginia, and Anita Mukherjee, of the University of Wisconsin – looked at the time period before and after different...
UVA students, faculty and staff are planning to take part in a nationwide show of support for the victims of the Parkland school shooting. A 17-minute demonstration is scheduled to take place at 10 a.m. Wednesday on the UVA Lawn. The event will honor the 17 lives lost during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as well as protest gun-related violence.
UVA’s Darden School of Business has unveiled a $30 million project to help every full-time MBA student gain international experience. The project, funded by a $15 million gift from the Batten Foundation and a matching gift from UVA’s Bicentennial Scholars Fund, will make Darden the only top MBA program to give each student a fully funded international class, according to the University.
Dozens of UVA students and members of the community attended a forum on gun rights and responsibilities at Minor Hall on UVA’s Grounds Tuesday evening.
In the wake of the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, UVA is discussing how to ensure events like it don’t happen there and how the country can move forward. On Tuesday, a panel discussed gun rights and responsibilities with students and some people from the community.
Tuesday evening, six panelists gathered to discuss King’s legacy and his influence on Charlottesville and UVA. The event was hosted by the Virginia Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Commission as part of the King in Virginia Project, which aims to remember his legacy in the places he visited across Virginia.
On Tuesday night, a panel of speakers commemorated Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 visit to UVA. Now, 55 years later, they asked "Where are we and where do we go from here?"
At the University of Virginia, still recovering from a violent white supremacist rally last summer, student leaders are expecting the biggest student protest in decades.
A young playwright is earning big recognition from the Kennedy Center. UVA fourth-year student Micah Watson is this year's winner of the Kennedy Center National Undergraduate Playwriting Award for her play, “Canaan.”
Gun safety has returned to the forefront of the national conversation following recent gun-related tragedies. In response to this, UVA’s Center for Politics hosted a panel Tuesday examining gun rights and responsibilities.
UVA introduced Tony Bennett as its basketball coach the week of the 2009 Final Four. But the journey that brought Bennett to Charlottesville began at least 17 years earlier with an obscure, fifth-round NFL draft choice by his beloved Green Bay Packers.
Tony Bennett has lifted the Cavaliers program to heights it hasn’t experienced in more than three decades. He’s also fallen victim to repeated March heartbreak. This year he has his best team ever, as well as the NCAA tournament’s No. 1 overall seed. Is the elusive breakthrough finally imminent?
Jahan Ramazani, University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at UVA, talks about times of xenophobic nationalism and strong poets who aren’t always read with such insight, as well as leveling powerful arguments about how verse frames identity, feeling, and nation.
The conclusion from a study in the journal "Addiction" looks at how states report overdose deaths and correct for underreporting. The study's author, Christopher Ruhm, a UVA public policy expert, estimated the actual death toll from opioids is 21 to 35 percent higher than the numbers coming from the Centers for Disease Control.
In preparation for its examination of race, National Geographic editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg tapped John Edwin Mason, a UVA professor specializing in the history of photography and the history of Africa, to dive into the magazine’s past. On Monday, she discussed his findings in an editor’s note. “What Mason found in short was that until the 1970s National Geographic all but ignored people of color who lived in the United States, rarely acknowledging them beyond laborers or domestic workers,” Goldberg wrote.
The magazine decided to take a tough look at its past coverage prior to the publication of its April issue, which is devoted to race. In an editorial titled "For decades our coverage was racist. To rise above our past we must acknowledge it," editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg writes that she enlisted the help of UVA professor John Edwin Mason to take a look at decades of National Geographic coverage.