As researchers take a closer look at the long-term effects of COVID-19, two new studies funded by the National Institutes of Health found some people may develop diabetes after a COVID-19 infection. The studies found that the virus destroys cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, and that the decrease in insulin leads to high glucose. Dr. Ananda Basu, a professor of medicine at the University of Virginia, said the findings are early, but concerning. “It’s like a double-whammy,” said Basu.
There are still many unsolved mysteries about the human brain and its development. Now, a novel study published in Frontiers in Psychiatry sheds new light on the neurobiological origins of our individual traits. … The neural connections in our brains that determine human behavioral traits are already present from birth and are unique to each individual. “Our main findings show that soon after birth, greater connectivity between frontal and parietal brain regions is linked to improved behavioral regulation in human infants. To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate that connectiv...
Dr. Bill Petri has been working at the University of Virginia since he was 20 years old. His dedication to helping the community through the coronavirus pandemic is now being recognized by the University. Petri risked his own health to care for patients inside the COVID ward, and now UVA is honoring his sacrifice with the Thomas Jefferson Award for Excellence in Scholarship.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine will have a new leader. Dr. Melina Kibbe has been selected as the 17th dean of the school and the chief health officer for UVA Health. She will be starting at UVA in September.
The head of the University of North Carolina Department of Surgery has been named dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and chief health affairs officer for the University of Virginia Health System. Dr. Melina R. Kibbe will serve as the 17th dean of the medical school, taking over for Dr. David S. Wilkes, who held the position for the last six years. Kibbe will take over Sept. 15.
The University of Virginia has named Dr. Melina R. Kibbe the next dean of its medical school and chief health affairs officer for UVA Health, the university announced in a news release Wednesday.
The researchers found no evidence that people are any more likely to start working when they lose SNAP benefits. “If the goal is to encourage people to work, then this is not a policy that is working as intended,” said Adam Leive, who worked on the study and is also a professor at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary by W. Bradford Wilcox, sociology professor) America is a big country, and an increasingly diverse one at that. This diversity extends to how we educate, socialize, and care for our children – including our infants and toddlers. Some parents prefer to rely on a stay-at-home parent, others day care, others grandma, and still others a mix of these arrangements. Unfortunately, the American Families Plan that President Joe Biden put forward to help parents did not take account of this diversity.
New York City has a forceful, yet poignant message to Kim Jong Un. The street where the North Korean regime’s mission to the United Nations is located could soon be named “Otto Warmbier Way,” after the 22-year-old UVA student who was brutally tortured and sent home to die by Kim’s regime in 2017.
On a day that the University of Virginia advanced to the super regionals, inching closer to the College World Series, former Cavalier Chris Taylor hit a two-run home run in the sixth, widening the Dodgers advantage. “I woke up early and watch that one,” Taylor said of the college baseball game that started at 9 a.m. ET. “That was a big one for us. I’m proud of them.”
Statistics reports that health care-related jobs were expected to grow by 15 percent from 2019 to 2029, adding 2.4 million new jobs, or “more jobs than any of the other occupational groups.” All of them need clothes for work. And though some doctors had been moving away from scrubs before the pandemic, the last year has made them even more important. “It’s the one way that everyone in the hospital can express themselves,” said [UVA alumnus] Chaitenya Razdan, the founder of Care+Wear, which he started in 2014 on the premise that people dealing with medical issues should feel like people, not pa...
(Commentary by Hanna Hassan, undergraduate student and intern at the High Atlas Foundation) August of this year will mark the one-year anniversary of the end of South Sudan’s civil war, yet recent surges of violence suggest that peace is far from being realized. These attacks by armed groups include instances of sexual violence against women and girls. Sexual and gender-based violence continues to be a significant characteristic in South Sudan’s conflict, threatening the livelihood and human rights of women and girls.
What makes the Fulton case unusual is the dearth of legal precedents that might help predict how the court will rule. "There really are no cases at the Supreme Court level that are close to this one," said Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. "All the precedents are pretty general, and the facts in Fulton are unbelievably complicated. They could write this decision all kinds of different ways. It's really impossible to predict."
“There are no mechanisms to ensure investors that the green investment will actually occur," said Mitu Gulati, a law professor at the University of Virginia. “The only conclusion I can draw from that is that investors don’t actually care. It’s so much eyewash."
David Nemer, a Brazil political analyst and assistant professor at the University of Virginia, said, “Bolsonaro is doubling-down on his bet on early treatment to give people a sense of security to keep going to work,” said Nemer, adding that Bolsonaro’s strategy appears to favor an open economy over health and distract citizens from his vaccine failures. “He needs something to contain his rising rejection rates.”
One challenge is that directors don’t tend to leave their board seats very often. Board members generally stick around for about a decade, said Yo-Jud Cheng, a business professor at the University of Virginia. “I mean, it’s very uncommon for someone to be, you know, pushed off of a board.”
“When I heard they had closed Bethlehem Steel, I thought, ‘How do you do that? What do you do when it’s in the middle of a town?’” asked June West, a University of Virginia business professor who uses the Bethlehem Steel transformation as a lesson in brownfield redevelopment.
Dr. Bruce Greyson, professor emeritus in psychiatry at the University of Virginia, had also suggested that humans have a non-physical part. He also added that NDEs have transformed people's attitudes, values, beliefs, and behaviors.
(Video) Top U.S. officials are urging young people to get vaccinated as the Delta variant begins to spread. The dangerous variant has already become the dominant strain in the U.K. As CBS News' Nikki Battiste reports, Dr. Anthony Fauci says we "cannot let that happen" in the U.S. Then, Dr. Taison Bell, a University of Virginia critical care and infectious disease physician and medical ICU director, joins CBSN's Elaine Quijano with his analysis.
Jalane Schmidt, a religious studies and director of the Memory Project at the University of Virginia, has also worked to remove the statues and told CNN she was impressed by the number of community members who warned the city council not to simply shuffle the statues to another community where they “would continue to promote Lost Cause ideology. … This represents a shift in the conversation about monuments from mere demands for removal to concern for what happens to statues after they’re removed,” Schmidt said Tuesday.