In a new Yale-led study, researchers find that autism may develop in different regions of the brain in girls than boys and that girls with autism have a larger number of genetic mutations than boys, suggesting that they require a larger “genetic hit” to develop the disorder. Other members of the research team included Dr. Kevin Pelphrey, from UVA’s Brain Institute.
Research by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service shows the extent of the digital disconnect in Virginia. Plotted on a locality-by-locality map of Virginia, those with the most abundant access to high-speed Internet connections including fiber optic lines, cable or DSL show up in ever-darkening shades from the least (tan) to the most (burnt umber). Those where fewer than half of the households have such access show up as beige. This interactive image shows enormous pale-shaded digital deserts in rural areas, especially the Southside and Southwest Virginia regions.
Medicare and private insurers must quickly transition to a value-based-care payment model to meet the needs of an aging population, the head of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Virginia said. Dr. Justin Mutter said the fee-for-service model must be scrapped because it doesn’t align with the needs of older, sicker patients.
There has been a recent jump in health care workers providing home services for Medicare patients, but researchers at UVA Health say it is nowhere close to meeting the surging demand. Dr. Aaron Yao and Dr. Justin Mutter say with our country’s aging population, a significant number of people need to receive medical care at home now. Unfortunately, many of these patients go unseen because there aren’t enough staff or resources to meet the demand.
The Falls Church City Council has set in stone its commitment to public art in the Little City. City council members voted unanimously April 12 to amend Falls Church’s comprehensive plan by adding a section supporting public art and establishing a public arts district. Now, staff will turn their attention to hammering out the details needed to carry out this committment. The vote culminates about a year of work that involved various city groups that reviewed the policy and consultants from the University of Virginia who helped craft it, city planner Emily Bazemore said.
1. Digital Transformation (Coursera): UVA’s Darden School of Business offers this beginner-level class in conjunction with the Boston Consulting Group. At an estimated 14 hours to complete, it features instructors including Darden senior associate dean and chief strategy officer Michael Lenox, BCG managing director Amane Dannouni, and others. This 101-level course outlines the imperative to change digitally, the context of digital transformation, and what such changes demand of an organization. It also trains students in the BCG framework for identifying key DT opportunities. If you want to co...
The Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail is launching a program that will let jail residents find purpose, earn college credit and position themselves for success upon their release and re-entry into our community. For the past two years, the Charlottesville Commonwealth Attorney’s Office has spearheaded bringing the UVA academic course, Books Behind Bars: Life, Literature, and Leadership, to the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. After many months of hard work and dedicated commitment, this pilot project is set to launch this fall.
UVA has not said whether it will mandate the shot, but other universities have. Attorney David Thomas of MichieHamlett says he believes it can be allowed.
(Transcript) Hundreds of Confederate statues, memorials and names have been removed from the public square in the last decade as communities rethink just what history should be venerated. But thousands of symbols remain. Now the University of Virginia is launching a new initiative around the politics of memory and how history is presented in public spaces. It’s called the Memory Project and is directed by UVA religious studies professor and Black Lives Matter activist Jalane Schmidt.
The UVA School of Engineering has welcomed a new friend. It walks on four legs and is named “Spot.” Spot can detect staircases and adapt to any outdoor environment. Engineering professor Nicola Bezzo says they’ll use Spot in UVA’s laboratories and classrooms, but Spot will mainly be used to go where humans can’t.
They’ve taken it into juvenile detention centers, onto film and over television, but this fall, UVA students and their professor will take Russian literature into the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. The program – Books Behind Bars: Life, Literature, and Leadership – will bring UVA students into the jail each week to meet with inmates and explore life’s meaning, its value and concepts of social justice through the prose of Russian writers.
Virginia swimming and diving head coach Todd DeSorbo, fresh off having guided the UVA women’s team to its first national title, has signed a five-year contract extension through the 2026-27 season.
Black Maternal Health Week runs from April 11 to 17. It aims to heighten awareness of maternal mortality in the Black community. “Our maternal mortality rate is specifically much higher than other countries and specifically for Black women, it’s even higher, so they are three to four more times more likely to have complications related to pregnancy,” said Rochanda Mitchell, a Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellow at the University of Virginia.
Federal and Virginia health officials said it is important to note only six cases of severe reaction to the J&J shot have been identified out of nearly 7 million doses administered in the U.S. “This is literally a less than a one-in-a-million chance of getting this complication,” Dr. Patrick Jackson, assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UVA Health, said.
Federal and Virginia health officials said it is important to note only six cases of severe reaction to the J&J shot have been identified out of nearly 7 million doses administered in the U.S. “This is literally a less than a one-in-a-million chance of getting this complication,” Dr. Patrick Jackson, assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UVA Health, said.
(Written by professor Benjamin Converse, Gabrielle Adams, Andrew H. Hales and Leidy Klotz) Most people who are now adults learned to ride a bike by first plugging along on tricycles and then wobbling around on bikes with training wheels. Thanks to Ryan McFarland, our kids have it better.
(Commentary by Mark Edmundson, professor of English) Walt Whitman did all he could to advance the fortunes of his own book, “Leaves of Grass.” He reviewed it himself, not once but three times.
UVA researchers say Medicare may need to reconsider how it compensates providers for home care. According to a release, the recent growth in the number of health care workers who provide home care for Medicare patients is “small and inadequate” compared to the increase in demand.
CBD oil used to curb seizures in a 2-year-old with epilepsy may be linked to the boy developing signs of a very early puberty, a British case study reports. An outside expert who reviewed the case study cautioned that the murky circumstances surrounding the case make it hard to draw firm conclusions. “This boy undoubtedly had central precocious puberty by clinical and laboratory findings,” said Dr. Alan Rogol, a UVA professor emeritus of pediatrics and endocrinology.
The University of Virginia’s Miller Center is spearheading an effort to create an analysis of lessons learned during the coronavirus pandemic.