It's important to properly care for your newborn's umbilical cord to prevent infection and related complications. Here are warning signs, courtesy of the University of Virginia Health System, that should prompt you to contact your doctor: ...
The next generation of voters also gave Barack Obama a landslide victory. A mock election involving one million of America's youth–the vast majority of whom are too young to vote–went 60%-36% for Obama. It was also a record turnout for the online, K-12 student-only election hosted by the Youth Leadership Initiative of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. The polls were open Oct. 20-30.
A so-called "anti-frailty" drug has shown promise in a small study, increasing muscle mass in the arms and legs of healthy older adults without causing side effects. ...The study, by researchers at the University of Virginia Health System, involved 65 men and women ranging in age from 60 to 81.
...In today's show, we will relive and reflect on the events of this year's Virginia film festival.
... James W. Ceaser, professor of politics at the University of Virginia, writing in the Claremont Review of Books, notes that, contrary to conventional understanding, the Constitution created not three but four 'national institutions.' They are the Congress, the Supreme Court, the presidency-and the presidential selection system, based on the Electoral College. 'The question of presidential selection,' Ceaser writes, 'was just that important to the Founders.' ...
By Thomas A. Harkins, chief environment of care officer at the U.Va. Health System
As the University of Virginia Medical Center continues to expand in order to meet the growing health-care needs of our community, decisions made 20 years ago dictate that we stay at our current location in the heart of Charlottesville. ...there are actually many advantages to us staying in our current location. In summary...
...The scene at UVA echoed efforts by the Obama campaign at college campuses nationwide. Election Day culminated a youth-voter-outreach strategy that began as early as the primaries, and has focused on combining on-the-ground campaigning with technology applications such as the online social network Facebook and text messaging.
Joe Caissie
Law student who was first in line at the local Venable School polling place
...Around 10 this morning, University of Virginia students streamed in sweatpants along the sidewalk to Venable School, a polling location in the heart of the so-called student ghetto.
... Jason Hogan, a 22-year-old University of Virginia student, said foreign policy also tops his concerns. 'I don't want people to hate me because I'm an American.' The economy comes next for him, and more importantly, Obama's 'spread the wealth' vision. 'I think it's something that needs to happen,' Hogan said. 'Everyone's so proud to be an American but you're not proud to take care of your own.'
Cordel Faulk
Communications director for the Center for Politics
'President Obama' Will be Greeted by a Stack of Problems
Afro American (MD) / Nov. 5
http://www.afro.com/tabid/456/itemid/2031/President-Obama-Will-be-Greeted-by-a-Stack-of-Pr.aspx
Dr. Patrick G. Northup
Assistant professor of internal medicine
AASLD: Mortality Risk in HCV-Positive Transplant Patients Similar ...
MedPage Today / Nov. 4
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AASLD/11601
Bryan Pfaffenberger
A professor of Science, Technology, and Society
The case for lever voting machines
DVICE / Nov. 4
http://dvice.com/a...
This year's Virginia Film Festival may have been the best ever. And we're not just saying that to suck up to festival artistic director Richard Herskowitz, whose imminent departure lent a certain poignancy to the four days of moviegoing.
An oral drug that mimics ghrelin, an appetite hormone, reverses the normal age-related decline in growth hormone and fat-free mass in elderly adults, according to an article in the Nov. 4 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
... At the University of Virginia Health System, doctors studied the use of a combination of Avastin with another chemotherapy drug, CAMPTOSAR (irinotecan), in patients with recurrent glioblastoma [brain tumors]. The researchers found the drug combination was able to shrink the tumor in 63 percent of patients. ... Neuro-oncologist David Schiff, M.D., says about 30 to 40 percent of patients who no longer respond to standard medical therapy have shrinkage of their tumor with Avastin.
... Company executives point to recent studies, including some by the University of Virginia and the University of New Brunswick, that show that interactive whiteboards, which can set a school back between $3,000 and $5,000 for each unit, can improve student learning combined with proper teaching strategies.
... [Gov. Tim Kaine] has given $750,000 to the University of Virginia to train nurses, and in July of 2007 nursing faculty received a 10 percent increase in salary.
... So what are polls? An illuminating conference at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs dealt with that question last spring, and it is worth revisiting now as the final polls emerge. ... Nick Winter, of the University of Virginia, spoke of concerns that polling tends to misrepresent public opinion by forcing respondents to answer the questions in terms that pollsters invent-not in the terms that respondents themselves use to think of politics.
... He ran for president during the best possible conditions for a politician running against the incumbent party -- a country saddled with two wars and teetering on the brink of a recession, including a Wall Street meltdown that amounted to an October surprise. "He won because he was the Democratic nominee in a year that was just perfect for Democrats," said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia.