Visits to health care providers for influenza-like illnesses (ILI) increased for a third straight week to 6.7% compared to 6% the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s not surprising for researchers at the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia who work in a research partnership with AccuWeather. They predicted what is now a second peak of ILI activity for the 2019-20 season a month ago when ILI activity was at its first peak of 7%. However, it doesn’t mean the season isn’t surprising in some ways. “It’s hard to believe we are this de...
A UVA researcher — as part of a study published in the scientific journal Pediatrics — finds more than half of new moms don’t follow safe sleep practices with their babies. The study in which UVA pediatrician Dr. Ann Kellams participated found “only 45.4% of new mothers surveyed both intended to comply and then did comply with the recommendation to sleep in the same room but not the same bed with their baby.”
Dr. Ann Kellams, a researcher at the UVA School of Medicine and pediatrician at UVA Children’s, says more new mothers need to act to protect their babies while they sleep. She found that among 3,260 new mothers surveyed, 59% intended to follow safe sleep recommendations to prevent sudden unexpected infant death syndrome, but only 45.4% followed it in practice.
(Video) Researchers at the University of Virginia are working on a way to test for autism when a baby is born.
Whether it’s hormones, or friends, or fear of the future, is teen angst here today and forgotten tomorrow? UVA social scientist Joseph Allen said, “We’d like to think we’re beyond it and we’re not as far beyond it as we’d like to be and it matters more, and sticks with us longer.”
Decision Desk HQ in partnership with the University of Virginia Center for Politics estimates that Sanders and Buttigieg will win nine national pledged delegates each from New Hampshire compared to six for Klobuchar, with Biden and Warren picking up zero delegates from the state.
The Virginia House of Delegates has passed a bill that would grant in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants. People who attended a meeting last week on the University of Virginia Grounds on that topic are likely pleased to see this proposal advance. Just like other students who are hoping to get in-state tuition, immigrants would be required to have lived in and attended a school in Virginia for at least one year.
The law journals of the 16 top-ranked U.S. law schools (including UVA) are all currently helmed by female editors-in-chief. This is wildly unlikely: By pure statistical chance, that has an approximately 1 in 100,000 likelihood of happening.
For the first time, the law reviews at the top 16 law schools in the U.S. – including UVA – all have a female editor-in-chief. (These schools are the top-ranked schools according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Law Schools list.)
(Commentary co-written by Christine Kennedy, associate dean for academic programs and professor of nursing) The Virginia General Assembly approved expansion of Medicaid last year, providing access to health care for 400,000 Virginians. The question is: Who will provide care to all of these citizens? One viable option for providing high-quality primary care is nurse practitioners.
(Commentary by Aynne Kokas, assistant professor of media studies) Images of Bong Joon-ho reveling in his awards for best picture and best director for “Parasite” circulated widely after this year’s Oscars ceremony. But those charming, meme-able moments don’t just capture Bong’s personal triumph – they also symbolize a breakthrough for Korea’s film industry, which for decades has been trapped between the demands of two powerful markets.
UVA fourth-year student Kate Bollinger writes smart, melodic indie pop music. It makes for easy listening, but there’s real insight in her lyrics. Dig deeper and you’ll discover a thoughtful songwriter coming into her own.
Thousands take Metro-North to get in and out of New York City, and from the Harlem, Hudson and New Haven lines, one woman has her eye on it all. In the sea of commuters, tourists and locals is someone who blends right in – Catherine Rinaldi, the first female president of Metro-North. Rinaldi was an English major at Yale, and then went to law school at the University of Virginia.
Broadcast journalist Emerald Robinson has joined Newsmax TV as its new White House correspondent. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Robinson began her journalism career as host of "The Daily Orbit," a syndicated science and technology news show. Her experience also includes entertainment, political, and economic beats.
It’s one of the best food deals in town in one of the most unique dining atmospheres around. Every Wednesday, The Haven in Charlottesville offers up lunch with some of the very homeless it helps, making sure you’re well taken care of. For $10 dollars you get a three-course meal prepared by various restaurants, home cooks, refugees, or University of Virginia students.
This week, we're taking you on our Sense Of Place trip to Charlottesville, Va., and exploring the city's music scene. Charlottesville is a picturesque college town that's home to the University of Virginia, or UVA. If the name rings a bell, it might be because their men's basketball team won the NCAA March Madness tournament back in 2019, and the Cavalier Marching Band was along for the ride. If you've ever wondered how a marching band chooses songs, or how hundreds of musicians can be so perfectly coordinated, then you're in for a treat. Today we go behind the scenes with the Cavalier Marchin...
President Donald Trump is calling out University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato on Twitter. Sabato is the director of the UVA Center for Politics and runs Sabato’s Crystal Ball.
(Commentary) This week, House Democrats will reportedly pass a measure to lift the 1982 deadline on a feminist amendment to the U.S. Constitution, although the Supreme Court, legal scholars, and the U.S. Department of Justice have said the attempt is unconstitutional. The so-called Equal Rights Amendment was defeated in the 1980s by a woman-led coalition that argued women’s rights will be damaged by attempting to eliminate all distinctions between men and women in federal law. That argument received unlikely support in the wake of Virginia’s legislature attempting to ratify the expired amendme...
The swing states that took the biggest hit in the Panjiva data are Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan. Those states endured a net loss of exports overall, and to China in particular from 2017 to 2019. Maine lost exports to China while overall exports were flat. Trump won Michigan and Wisconsin in 2020, and the four states combined account for 34 electoral votes. That could be enough to tilt the 2020 election one way or the other, according to early predictions of the vote total at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
During the John F. Kennedy presidency, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was the administration enforcer. Even President Jimmy Carter had a mean streak that leaned toward reprisals, according to his White House counsel, Lloyd Cutler. This was perhaps a holdover from President Carter’s days as governor of Georgia, where political payback was common. “There were some petty revenges that were taken,” Mr. Cutler said in an oral history at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.