Erica Taylor has a pedigree seemingly built for orthopedic surgery. She comes from National Football League royalty – her father, Hall of Fame receiver Charley Taylor, played 13 seasons with Washington’s football team – and she has degrees from a top-notch biomedical engineering program at the University of Virginia and one of the nation’s best medical schools, Duke. Spending every other childhood Sunday seeing doctors in action on gridiron sidelines, she’d wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon since she was 15.
“Unfortunately, hepatitis C has continued to increase dramatically and does track along with the growth of substance use disorders,” said Dr. Rebecca Dillingham, director of UVA’s Center for Global Health Equity. As more experts worry that the ongoing pandemic is fueling an already critical drug crisis, providers and advocates across Virginia are pushing to expand the treatment of the virus. “I think we can say that the epidemic is not getting better and in fact we have a lot more work to do,” Dillingham said.
The new maps were intended to be objective and made so that no incumbent could be prioritized. J. Miles Coleman with the University of Virginia Center for Politics says big changes can be expected in the 2022 midterms. "This is the first time that Albemarle County has been split in 20 years.," he said. "Everyone in Charlottesville, or potentially everyone in the Charlottesville area, could be in a competitive district.”
(Commentary) Still, following Trump’s unsuccessful coup, there was a brief moment of opportunity. While his base, fed an endless stream of lies, remained in Trump’s corner, the “Grand Old Party” was in disarray, and Republicans in Washington seemed unsure whether to continue to be subservient to the former president. “This was a last chance for democracy, but there was no sense of urgency,” said Larry Sabato, a former political science professor at the University of Virginia, from his exile in California. “So many of us saw the writing on the wall, but, I suppose, after more than two centuries...
(Commentary) Larry Sabato, the highly-respected Director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics said on Twitter the 38-page document was “COMPLETE HORSESHIT.”
The director for the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, Larry Sabato, wrote: “I’m old-fashioned but treason seems like a serious crime. I’m not a lawyer but the PowerPoint seems like real evidence that a treasonous coup was planned.”
Experts say some factors give private schools an advantage when it comes to curbing the threat of bullying. "Private schools generally have an advantage over public schools in that they have more choice in whom they enroll and they can exclude or remove students who are disobedient," says Dewey Cornell, an education professor at the University of Virginia and an expert on bullying. "Therefore, private schools have the capacity to exert more control over problems like bullying."
Dewey Cornell, a forensic clinical psychologist and University of Virginia professor whose Student Threat Assessment Protocol is used widely in the United States and Canada, said he’s hearing from districts around the country that there’s been a “surge of student threats,” many of them coming from social media and possibly part of a “contagion effect of copycat threats following a highly publicized incident.”
Educational experts have reported 31 school shootings in the United States this year. University of Virginia professor of education Dewey Cornell joins CBSN to discuss more.
The University of Virginia has an ultrasound treatment changing the lives of people with tremors. For years, health systems have used invasive brain surgery for tremor correction. The ultrasound is especially helpful because no incision is made, but rather completed while a patient is wide awake.
The omicron COVID-19 variant has been in the headlines and is now in Virginia. But the delta variant is firmly entrenched in our community, according to University of Virginia Health experts. Right now, doctors with UVA Health say delta is the bigger threat as we head into this winter season, and we are seeing the effects from Thanksgiving now.
On Friday, doctors at UVA Health spoke about what they know so far about the variant. Right now, they believe it is not more deadly than the currently dominant delta variant, but omicron may spread faster. "Omicron seems to be fit in those places, and has a level of fitness that can out-compete delta. I think we should be prepared for that but again I don't think it's a guarantee,” said Dr. Costi Sirfri, an infectious disease specialist at UVA Health.
Cases of COVID-19 are once again on the rise in the Blue Ridge Health District because of a resurgence of the delta variant, doctors with the University of Virginia Medical Center said Friday. The increase comes after families gathered together for the Thanksgiving holiday and with a potentially worse variant, omicron, on the horizon. UVa hospitalizations related to COVID-19 stood at 36 patients as of Friday.
(Commentary) But liberals are interested, too. In a July 2021 University of Virginia poll, 41% of Biden supporters (as well as 52% of Trump voters) were at least somewhat in agreement with the idea “that it’s time to split the country, favoring blue/red states seceding from the union.”
Half a million Americans develop an illness called C. diff per year, and about 30,000 of those people die from it. It’s a life-threatening infection that mainly impacts hospitals and nursing homes as a result of long-term antibiotic use. Researchers with the University of Virginia Health System are working to help those impacted by the illness, by transplanting fecal matter from healthy individuals into those who are sick. This process can be compared to a colonoscopy.
Specific to divorcing couples is the work of Dr. Robert Emery, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and respected expert in the divorce field. He differentiates grieving an irrevocable loss like death from grieving a revocable loss like divorce, where the possibility of reconciliation remains for the former spouses and the children. Based on his case observations and research, he developed a cyclical theory of grief in divorce that describes the cycle of grief for the divorcing couple.
Brennan Armstrong's record-breaking season with the Cavaliers is now an award-winning season, as the quarterback received the 2021 Dudley Award for the player of the year at a Virginia state school.
The push for improved football facilities at Virginia received a boost on Friday on the same day the Cavaliers announced their next head coach. The University of Virginia Board of Visitors approved a request from the athletics department to pull $10.3 million from the "special gift fund" to put towards the planned new football football operations center. The $10.3 million is seen as a jump start for fundraising for the $65 million and 160,000 square foot facility, which is Phase I of the University's Athletics Master Plan.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted on Friday morning to approve a request from the UVA Athletics Department for a $10.3 million transfer of funds from the endowment to go towards fundraising for construction of a new facility for the Virginia football program.