The American College of Cardiology has recognized the University of Virginia Health System for its care of heart attack patients.
The four ranked specialties are: Neonatology: 30th; Diabetes and endocrinology: 34th; Orthopedics: tied for 41st; and Cardiology and heart surgery: 44th.
Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery provides outcomes that match those of conventional sternotomy without increasing use of resources, and lower costs after surgery offset potentially higher operation costs, according to a single-center, propensity-matched analysis of almost 500 patients presented at the meeting sponsored by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. “Minimally invasive mitral surgery has excellent outcomes with fewer transfusions and less time ventilated in this representative cohort,” said Dr. Robert Hawkins of the University of Virginia, in reporting the results.
One novel therapy undergoing testing in clinical trials is a synthetic form of lacritin, a protein that stimulates basal tear production. More than two decades ago, NEI-funded researcher Gordon Laurie, a UVA cell biologist, set out to identify a naturally produced eye substance to combat dry eye. At the time, dry eye research focused on inflammation. “Our goal was to find out what’s going on before the inflammation starts,” he said.
A new UVA summer program exposes high school students from around the U.S. to the history of slavery and its legacies.
In order to get more young women interested in construction and the building trades, UVA’s Facilities Management department has participants shadow facilities employees in various planned events throughout the day.
The memorial is the University of Virginia’s answer to the question many other colleges face: How should an academic institution reconcile its physical ties to slavery or the Confederacy with the desire to become a welcoming campus?
UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science is hiring more faculty in the growing field of Internet of Things, a network of internet-connected devices including smart watches, such, as the Fitbit and smart speakers, such as the Amazon Echo. The university also is home to the Link Lab, which focuses on IoT research.
Jefferson saw himself as a Christian in what he thought as the truest sense, as one who saw Jesus as a moral exemplar. Making a new Bible, he called it “The Life And Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.” The Smithsonian exhibit includes both a Bible that Jefferson cut apart and one he created from his pasted clippings.
Last week, Robby Andrews upset Matthew Centrowitz, the reigning Olympic champion and former University of Oregon standout, for the U.S. title at 1,500 meters in Sacramento, California. The 26-year-old former UVA standout's winning time at Hornet Stadium was 3 minutes, 43.29 seconds.
May UVA graduate Leah Smith recorded a World Championships-qualifying swim Wednesday in the Phillips 66 National Championships and World Championships Trials at the Indiana University Natatorium.
Kathleen Flake, a UVA professor of Mormon studies, said that the LDS Church relies largely on volunteers and probably hasn’t needed to offer the same kinds of incentives as larger businesses.
Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says Republicans first used a statewide primary back in 1949.
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia promotes visual literacy as part of a broader, comprehensive education for all and seeks to enhance its visitors' perceptions and understanding of world cultures throughout history and of art as an enduring human endeavor.
UVA was among 193 U.S. hospitals to earn the 2017 National Cardiovascular Data Registry ACTION Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award for providing high-quality care to heart attack patients based on national guidelines and recommendations from the ACC and the American Heart Association.
The University of Virginia Medical Center has received $8.6 million in federal grant money to help advance lung transplant research.
Southwest Virginia health officials continue to see increases in Hepatitis C linked to drug abuse in the region. That issue leaves community leaders looking at new options to combat the consequences of the epidemic. Right now, they are using telemedicine services through the University of Virginia.
John B. Boles, author of “Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty,” mentions Peter S. Onuf and Annette Gordon-Reed, who published “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs” last year. “Another group – and Onuf and Gordon-Reed are among those – who say, Look, here’s an imperfect person, a very complicated kind of person, but let’s look at him holistically and in context and see if we can’t have a more sophisticated, better-nuanced understanding of him.”
(By Sarah Milov, UVA assistant professor of history) Congress has never passed a Non-Smokers’ Rights Act. Instead, 41 states and 1,354 cities have enacted laws to protect the health of citizens. They did so in response to the sustained activism of men and women who argued that the government was not doing enough to protect their rights.
(By Craig Volden of UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and Alan E. Wiseman of Vanderbilt University) Our new data analysis suggests that senators’ success in moving bills through the legislative process has declined markedly over the past several decades, undermining the Senate’s capacity to resolve public problems.