Pediatrics experts gathered at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital Thursday to discuss obesity and other problems that face youngsters. Research shows more and more kids in the U.S. are growing in ways they really shouldn't, leading to long-term effects on their health.
The governor’s task force on college campus sexual assault will release its recommendations Thursday, which Gov. Terry McAuliffe said will include suggestions for legislation and executive actions designed to further protect students. Lawmakers addressed the issue during this year’s General Assembly session following a series of incidents on college campuses and in response to a now-discredited Rolling Stone magazine story detailing an alleged gang rape of a University of Virginia student.
It's part of the lab's Incubator Program that teaches people how to turn a business idea into an actual business. The iLab is part of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
Students with the University of Virginia and Charlottesville entrepreneurs are building new businesses from the ground up over the next 10 weeks. Twenty-three groups are participating in the university's i.Lab Incubator Summer Accelerator, which gives them $5,000 to develop their business ventures over the next few months. The groups made their 1-minute pitches on Wednesday, the first day of the session.
University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have unraveled the mystery of a strange virus in the hopes of creating more effective tools in the war against human disease. The secret weapon this virus may offer? "Armor" for disease-fighting DNA courtesy of the SIRV2 virus, who calls acid at almost boiling temperatures home.
Eugene Melnyk isn't well-known in the United States. But he's a household name in Canada, where he has been the owner of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League since 2003. Since earlier this month, he has also been at the center of a remarkable and much-debated medical and ethical saga. The public side of the saga began May 14, when Melnyk's NHL team issued a public appeal, via a press conference, for a live liver donor to step forward to save the 55-year-old businessman's life. "A public solicitation raises a lot of ethical considerations," observes ethici...
It hasn’t been a smooth road for Hillary Clinton since she announced in April she was running for president. The Democratic presidential candidate seems to have been mired in controversy and scandal ever since — from Clinton Foundation donations, to her private email server while she was secretary of state, to her speaking fees. And it also didn’t help that she didn’t answer reporters’ questions for 28 days as her campaign spun that she was taking questions from real Americans. Larry Sabato, director at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, ...
According to the New York Times, some electronic health record vendors, hospitals and laboratories intentionally prevent the exchange of health data, as detailed in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's recent report on information blocking. Meanwhile, Amalia Miller, an economist at the University of Virginia, said, "Even when hospitals have the technological capability, they do not always share information with hospitals outside their system" because "[i]f information is portable, patients can switch providers more easily, and that could hurt the business o...
(By Elly Leavitt, a student at the University of Virginia and a summer 2015 USA TODAY Collegiate Correspondent) Losing your wallet is an unfortunately common occurrence. Whether it was stolen or simply misplaced, it is a serious matter because it contains key information about yourself as well as things that you need to use every day. And for college students, who usually carry several vital cards — university ID, room keys, or public transit passes to name a few — it is doubly important to act quickly. If searching where you last saw it turns up nothing, here are five things...
Students from America – including Kylie Grow, 20, from the University of Virginia – experience change in a one-of-a-kind program run here by Arcadia University. They were among the first eyewitnesses to the reactions and aspirations of ordinary Cubans as the U.S. and Cuba start to repair ties severed a half-century ago.
(By Kyle Kondik, a Political Analyst at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia) If Hillary Clinton wins the White House, there's a decent chance that she will achieve a historic first, but not the one everybody talks about. Clinton could become the first Democratic president in the party's nearly two century-long history to never control the House of Representatives while she's in office.
What songs get you moving? For cognitive scientists, researchers and now music streaming apps, the answer is in your brain. Computer scientist Shahriar Nirjon, working with a team at the University of Virginia, found that the tempo of songs played a role in producing a certain heart rate in study participants. They found that people who listened to calming music reported lower anxiety and heart rate; similarly, they could increase a person’s heart rate by playing songs at a faster tempo, he said.
Since President Obama took office, the federal government has poured more than $29 billion into health information technology and told doctors and hospitals to use electronic medical records or face financial penalties. Amalia R. Miller, an economist at the University of Virginia who has studied the industry, said: “Even when hospitals have the technological capability, they do not always share information with hospitals outside their system. If information is portable, patients can switch providers more easily, and that could hurt the business of some hospitals.”
In an interview with The Washington Post last week, U-Va. president Teresa Sullivan spoke about the challenging series of events on campus during the past school year, including sophomore Hannah Graham’s death, the since-debunked Rolling Stone story about rape at U-Va., and the bloody arrest of a black student leader at the hands of state alcohol enforcement officers. Though the elite public university had almost nothing to do with any of the three events, its campus was thrust into the national spotlight for reasons other than the successes of its students in academia and beyond.
The University of Virginia found that over a three year period the Commonwealth’s population grew 3.2 percent. Loudoun County experienced the highest population increase at 11.4 percent and, even without a mass casualty event, is woefully unprepared with inadequate capacity to treat patients overnight – there are only .54 beds per 1,000 residents in Loudoun compared to the national average of 2.9 beds per 1,000 residents – that’s less than 1/5 of the national average. So much for COPN ensuring access to healthcare for Virginians.
The SIRV2 virus is unlike other viruses. For one, it can survive in very harsh environments, but researchers from the University of Virginia who study this bizarre pathogen hope that this could be used beneficially in genetic therapy to treat diseases. The researchers reported that the virus, which can survive regardless of being placed in extreme environments, offers a blueprint that could serve as key for fighting human diseases.
Scientists at the University of Virginia studying the SIRV2 virus discovered how it survives in very harsh environments and hope it will help them to use genetic therapy to battle diseases.
Researchers from the University of Virginia are using an underground microscope to make discoveries about different strains of bacteria. The Titan Krios microscope is buried below the Fontaine Research Park, under tons of concrete, to keep it completely stable.
The Australian who runs the only museum in the United States dedicated to Indigenous art was recognised today with an Order of Australia honour. Eleanor Hall, the Australian who runs the only museum in the United States dedicated to our Indigenous art was recognised today with an Order of Australia honour. Dr. Margo Smith was awarded an AM for promoting Aboriginal art and culture in the USA. She's been telling our reporter Simon Lauder about the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia.
Across the country, the criminal justice system is grappling with the fallout from decades of faulty analysis in criminal cases that may have resulted in thousands of wrongful convictions. Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said that forensic disciplines like microscopic hair analysis are, at the most, useful “as a tool to exclude” suspects, not a tool to specifically identify them. But they are rarely treated that way by forensic scientists.