Colleges, which aim to create environments where all students can be safe, are right to set codes of conduct defining rape more expansively than criminal laws that carry jail time, said U.Va. law professor Anne M. Coughlin. The challenge, she said, is to ensure that everyone is aware of the distinctions.
"[The] DSCC has the resources to play in Kentucky," Kyle Kondik, with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told FoxNews.com. "But if they end up having a bad night and McConnell wins, there may be some Monday morning quarterbacking on whether that money was well spent." ... Kondik said he does not think vulnerable Democratic candidates are hurting for cash, or have been abandoned by the national party. But he said it is clear Democrats would love to oust McConnell, noting the campaign has a "certain level of PR value."
Fox News is also taking notice. On Thursday Larry Sabato - a nationally known political analyst from the University of Virginia - said Rounds, Weiland, and Pressler are all splitting up the vote in South Dakota. "Right now Rounds and Pressler and Weiland are in a relatively close three-way battle though Rounds is still ahead. Polls differ on what the margin is," Sabato said.
The overwhelming conscience in the clinical and child welfare world is that such prosecutions are wrong, and for many reasons, said Mary Faith Marshall, director of the Program in Biomedical Ethics at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Virginia. “It’s not healthy for pregnant women, or for fetuses in development. It’s harmful, and it’s hypocritical,” Marshall said. “Addiction is complex disease, as opposed to simply a moral failing.”
Brad Wilcox, director the National Marriage Project and associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, says the promotion of LARC methods as a solution to social problems "will only augment the culture where sex is disconnected from love and commitment." It will not help build stronger relationships or do anything to promote male responsibility, he says. "I don't think there is any magic pill here that's going to solve the challenges of family formation and family stability," he says.
By Carolyn Long Engelhard, director of the Health Policy Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences.Unlike other wealthy countries, the United States has a low ratio of primary care physicians relative to medical specialists. Currently, only one in three physicians practice primary care, and only one in six medical graduates chooses primary care. ... Direct primary care is not a perfect solution to the coverage and access problems in healthcare today, but in combination with wraparound catastrophic insurance protection, it may be one inc...
The University of Virginia Breast Care Center is giving its new mobile mammography van a makeover and wants your help to pick a design. The unit will feature state-of-the-art digital equipment to reach more people in the community. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so doctors at UVA are encouraging all women to get a screening mammogram. The new bus is built to help bring that service right to the patients.
Giving a common local anesthetic to women undergoing breast removal surgery -- a mastectomy -- reduces their risk of persistent pain after the procedure, a new study says. More than two-thirds of mastectomy patients experience chronic pain after surgery, which can significantly affect physical activity, physical and mental health, and quality of life. "Unfortunately, chronic pain is a condition that many breast cancer patients endure after mastectomy," said lead author Dr. Mohamed Tiouririne, associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Virginia.
In 2009, researchers led by University of Virginia infectious disease expert J. Owen Hendley tested these claims by measuring the intranasal pressure of test subjects as they sneezed, coughed, and blew their noses. ... According to the researchers, the degree to which nose-blowing contributes to fluid accumulation in the sinuses is unclear, but their findings suggest that it may actually work to confound your natural plumbing by reversing the flow of mucus and slowing the draining process. The jury is out on whether this is harmful or just irritating, ...
The five-year study, which Rhoades co-authored with psychology professor Scott Stanley, co-director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver, was commissioned by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is in the forefront of national and international issues once again as researchers there try to help unlock the puzzle of Ebola. The scientists are to be commended for their work, which began two years ago but in recent months has become critical in helping solve an international health crisis.
The parents of Hannah Graham released a statement Monday pleading for information about her whereabouts, 30 days after she disappeared.
There is no similarity between what Hannah Graham may tragically have experienced and the drunken hookups that form the core of what many feminists label “campus rape.” It’s a mistake to conflate the two.
Jasmine Chiu enrolled in the new U.Va. in Shanghai summer session for two reasons: to improve her fluency in Chinese and to reunite with family members, some of whom she hadn’t seen in 12 years.
Rest easy, Culpeper. UVA Culpeper Hospital is here to stay. They are committed to our community; they are committed to serving your family; they are committed to serving you. And their commitment is personal and passionate - what more can we, as a community, ask for?
Grad School Hub showcases 30 of the most amazing eco-friendly science labs in colleges throughout the world including (No. 12) U.Va.’s Physical and Life Sciences Research Building, completed in 2011. Home to biology, chemistry and physics labs, the facility includes specialized spaces to study sleep disorders and nerve regeneration, among other topics.
The Central Virginia community is stepping up to support police and search teams in their relentless effort to find Hannah Graham. Individuals and nearly 150 Central Virginia businesses have donated food, supplies, even treats for the K-9s.
Two faculty members at the University of Virginia Curry School now have more than $6 million from the National Institutes of Justice to help research ways to keep students safer in schools.
John Herr, a U.Va. professor of cell biology and urology, used his 4 minutes to share a new insight into the “fundamental nature of cancer” that could enable treatments that “kill cancer cells while not harming any other cells in the body.” The audience favorite who earned a spot at the Nov. 14 TEDx event was Jim Harshaw, assistant director of the Virginia Athletics Foundation and a former member of U.Va.’s wrestling team, whose talk was titled “Why I teach my children to fail.”
Dahlia Lithwick talks with U.Va. law professor Douglas Laycock, who argued one of the Supreme Court term's first big cases on Tuesday (Holt v. Hobbs), the case of a Muslim prisoner who wants to grow a beard. (Audio, begins at 14:00)