The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia is set to reopen Saturday after 17 months of renovations.
Some elective surgeries are now delayed at the University of Virginia Medical Center. A combination of a nursing shortage and an increase in COVID-19 patients is to blame.
UVA Health is temporarily postponing some elective surgeries. According to a statement, the hospital is keeping a close eye on the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic and national staffing challenges.
(Commentary) In a survey conducted by the University of Virginia, Biden voters were asked how they viewed Trump voters. The Biden voters considered Trump voters to be “close-minded” (89%), both “misguided and misinformed” (89%), “intolerant” (86%), “racist” (83%), “religious hypocrites (80%), “authoritarian” (77%), “dangerous” (77%), “ignorant” (86%), “fascist” (63%), “un-American” (53%), “un-Christian” (59%), “under-educated” (63%), “dishonest” (58%) and, last of all, “evil” (40%). Don’t you just feel the tolerance?
It turned out that one of the SSRIs that worked well, fluvoxamine, binds to a receptor in cells that regulates cellular stress response and the production of cytokines, proteins that tell the body something is wrong and cause inflammation. Researchers at the University of Virginia found that fluvoxamine reduced inflammation in animals.
According to the University of Virginia COVID-19 projections, the model projects that with the delta variant, cases will surge through the fall, reaching levels not seen since April in mid-September. If the delta variant continues to spread, cases could possibly peak at levels higher than previous January peaks.
A University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute projection from last week indicated if the delta variant continued to spread at its current rate, this region — along with the southwest and northwest parts of the state — could start to hit capacity in September.
As more and more people get immunized, and cases continue to rise, Murphy pointed out that a higher number of breakthrough infections is an expected outcome. In an interview earlier this month, state epidemiologist Dr. Lilian Peake gave the example of a 2006 mumps outbreak at the University of Virginia. The college required students to be immunized, so 100 percent of the cases were in a fully vaccinated population. But the high level of vaccination still meant very few people contracted the virus.
George Vest, a long-serving U.S. diplomat who helped lay the groundwork for the Helsinki Accords with the Soviet Union in the 1970s and later was the State Department’s chief of recruiting and training, died Aug. 24 at his home in Bethesda, Maryland. He was 102. Vest received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia in 1941.
The local Virginia Headwater Council of the Boy Scouts of America sponsored an event called “Salute to Our Heroes” as a way to say thank you to UVA Health's front-line workers, especially throughout COVID.
Michael Gilbert, vice dean of the University of Virginia School of Law and a specialist in election law, questioned the legal basis for the state GOP’s lawsuit. The missing signature “appears to be a clerical error,” he said. “My guess would be this lawsuit doesn’t go anywhere.”
On Tuesday, the W Gallery will host a performance by Colorado-based singer-songwriter Shanna In A Dress. She's touring the country this summer mostly on her bike, playing dozens of shows from Astoria, Ore., to Wayland, and also raising money for the Pangea World Foundation. Shanna, 32, got her start as a musician while a student at the University of Virginia, which has a history of turning out alternative musicians like Pavement founders Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich, David Berman of the Silver Jews and Yo La Tengo bassist James McNew.
Dr. Jennifer Payne, vice-chair for research in psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia and an expert in women’s mood disorders, noted that the high amount of inconclusive data on the benefits of psychotropics does not imply they are ineffective in pregnant women. “We know they are just as likely to work during pregnancy as before or after,” she said. “What we don’t know is if we should manage these medications differently.”
(Commentary) Robert Fatton, professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia, contests that the Biden administration should facilitate the creation of a government of national unity. He argues that Haiti needs “civil society leaders who are above the traditional politics that has been rather disastrous for the country.” Let us heed his call and welcome political reformers and advocates of peace in a country that has seen far too much heartache.
Picking a Fed chair for an administration is not the same as picking a secretary of defense or a Supreme Court justice. Senators tend to be very picky about who sits on the Fed — two of Trump’s nominees, Marvin Goodfriend and Judy Shelton, were denied seats on the board of governors because of controversial views on monetary policy. But four other nominees passed with bipartisan votes. Saikrishna Prakash, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, says senators tend to look for independent subject matter experts to fill Fed seats and dismiss unqualified or controversial picks. “M...
(Commentary) Today, it is unknown exactly how many patents in which Dr. Fauci has a direct or indirect financial interest. But, according to David E. Martin, a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia and an expert on Intellectual Property rights (patents), the answer could be as high as 3,500.
Privacy questions also may arise when considering how insights from an algorithm are applied to a patient’s care, said Dr. Amy Salerno, a practicing physician in geriatrics and palliative medicine with UVA Health. She used the example of including housing-related data in a patient’s record as an indicator of higher risk for comorbidities such as substance-use and mental health disorders. “There's a lot of bias in health care against people who are experiencing homelessness,” Salerno said. “And so just because we have it documented in the medical record doesn't mean that people who are experien...
The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia works with population data year-round — not just once every 10 years — and releases population estimates regularly. Hamilton Lombard, a research and policy analyst with the center, said that the center’s estimates generally lined up with the new census numbers, and he wasn’t surprised by most of the state’s growth occurring in northern Virginia. But county-level data alone doesn’t give the full picture of that growth. “The growth itself within those areas is typically happening in the outskirts,” Lombard said.