Elderly individuals – those age 65 years or older – make up 43% of Americans undergoing an inpatient operation and are more likely than younger patients to have postoperative complications, results of multiple studies show. More than one in 10 of the elderly patients in the new study had an unexpected readmission, according to study authors. "Readmissions are stressful and expensive and Medicare reduces payments to hospitals with excess readmissions," said Dr. R. Scott Jones, a study coauthor and emeritus professor and chair of the University of Virginia's surgery department. "We want to antic...
The University of Cape Coast has released seven new varieties of cowpeas to help increase yields and promote food security. The research was funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Treaty on the Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, with support from the University of Virginia, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
(Commentary by Dr. Patrick Northrup and Dr. Shawn Pelletier of the UVA Medical Center) Seriously ill Virginia residents in need of lifesaving liver transplants face longer wait times and a greater chance of dying under ill-considered regulations implemented Feb. 4 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We will do everything in our power to fight what we see as a misguided change.
Researchers at the University of California Davis and the University of Virginia found that internet skills and experience with photo-editing software, like Photoshop, predicted how well people could tell if a still image was faked.
Consider UVA’s College Republicans, a chapter that has focused on training future party leaders. Members described how belonging to the group tempered their more extreme impulses. Meeting and working for politicians helped them appreciate electability over fiery rhetoric, while debating public policy with visiting experts led them to see compromise as a way toward the greater good.
Political insiders are looking ahead to Super Tuesday, Virginia’s Democratic Primary that takes place on March 3. Larry Sabato with the UVA Center for Politics says getting to the polls will be crucial as Democrats are “muddled this year.” He says the moderates are splitting their votes, which has worked to Bernie Sanders' benefit.
"While flu remains quite active throughout the nation, the season is beginning to weaken and slow down," Dr. Bryan Lewis, a professor at the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia, told AccuWeather. "However, make no mistake, this season is strong and still in full swing."
Political experts say that Sanders has moved to the left along with the rest of his party after the issue became a major vulnerability for him in his 2016 primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, who found and exploited Sanders' rare vulnerability on the left. "Bernie shifted with the Democratic Party (even as an independent)," Professor Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said. "And he saw in 2016 his gun record could be a real detriment to his presidential ambitions."
John Holbein is attempting to solve the mystery. An assistant professor of public policy at UVA, his research focuses on education and political participation. His new book with Duke University professor D. Sunshine Hillygus, “Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action,” will be released Thursday.
John Holbein is attempting to solve the mystery. An assistant professor of public policy at UVA, his research focuses on education and political participation. His new book with Duke University professor D. Sunshine Hillygus, “Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action,” will be released Thursday.
Charlottesville Public Schools is getting $124,000 to help expand its computer science programs. The grant will help Charlottesville Public Schools create partnerships with the University of Virginia, Tech-Girls, and Computers 4 Kids to develop resources, train teachers, and engage students in computer science.
Charlottesville Public Schools were granted $124,000 to create a partnership with the University of Virginia, Tech-Girls, and Computers4Kids to develop resources, train teachers, and engage K-8 students in computer science.
UVA’s School of Medicine received its largest amount of funding in school history with $146.3 million from the National Institutes of Health in fiscal 2019.
Four public universities were also granted awards to develop partnerships with school agencies and school divisions in their regions. George Mason University, Old Dominion University, University of Virginia’s College at Wise and Virginia Commonwealth University were each allocated approximately $125,000 in funding.
Students, faculty, and staff at the University of Virginia were part of a big conversation at the Rotunda on Monday. The woman who helped create the New York Times' 1619 Project spoke with UVA President Jim Ryan about it.
UVA alumna Dr. Vivian W. Pinn, founding director of the Office of Research on Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health, has been awarded the 2020 Women’s Leadership Award by the Emily Couric Leadership Forum.
“Here we have two employees with parallel and roughly equal claims to personal dignity by their own understanding,” UVA law professor Douglas Laycock said. “The religious claim is protected by federal law; the trans claim is not, although it is probably protected by state law in nearly half the states. I have trouble seeing undue hardship in letting the religious employee use pronouns that conform to her own sense of reality.”
Research by UVA’s Amar Cheema and a colleague shows that giving people two savings accounts can lead to greater overall contributions, as they feel compelled to contribute to both accounts.
In our next installment of ‘Training Blocks’, we connected with University of Virginia head coach Todd Desorbo, who provided workouts from UVA’s training plan with star freshman Kate Douglass.
When UVA began alerting students to the threat of a new coronavirus, Soukarya Ghosh and James Yun started talking. Friends from high school in Northern Virginia now majoring in computer science, they thought they could help educate and inform the public.