Speech-language pathologists rely on the totality of the face during sessions, but with the requirements of a mask, a local speech-language pathologist has had to get creative. “For example in a clinic visit, I will come in, sit down and greet the child and I kind of talk to the parent get the back information that I need,” said Kathleen Borowitz, a speech-language pathologist at UVA Children’s. “Then, I will engage the child either just some real basic conversations things I know that they will be able to answer.”
(Commentary) David Nemer, UVA assistant professor of communication, said that there is no single explanation to understand how conspiracies spread. The two most common ways they spread, however, are through the action of organized groups seeking to impose an agenda on a global scale and individuals who seek information (such as parents trying to understand more about their children's autism).
A new public awareness campaign aims to urge people to call 911 for emergency medical care if they are experiencing the symptoms of a heart attack or stroke. According to a release, the American Heart Association and UVA’s Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital created the campaign, which is called “Don’t Die of Doubt.”
Acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks met virtually with the UVA Karen S. Rheuban Center for Telehealth on Tuesday to discuss the telemedicine work that is being done at UVA and how it’s expanding virtual services for patients.
UVA economics and education professor Sarah Turner shares some of Rothstein’s concerns. As more institutions shifted to test-optional admissions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Turner wrote a column in which she outlined why this system may not increase opportunities for low-income students
Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors may help prevent dry macular degeneration, according to researchers at the University of Virginia.
A new study comprised of more than 100 million adults in America finds that HIV drugs may prevent vision loss. It was led by a University of Virginia doctor.
According to Hamilton Lombard, a researcher at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, his study indicates the homeschooling (for K-12 children) and telecommuting that has prevailed since March 2020 could be here to stay.
A team of UVA researchers have developed an AI system that attempts to detect and quantify the physiological signs associated with racial bias. In other words, they’re building a wearable device that tries to identify when you’re having racist thoughts.
Clinical trials at UVA suggest Regeneron’s antibody cocktail treatment is 100% effective in blocking symptomatic COVID-19 infections. Dr. William Petri, a trial leader, said the treatment will greatly help prevent the spread of the virus between household members, especially for those who may be caring for infected family members.
An antibody cocktail in phase three trials at UVA Health may be able to prevent significant reactions to the coronavirus or prevent people from contracting the virus altogether.
UVA Health is testing an antibody cocktail that so far has blocked 100% of symptomatic COVID-19 cases among people who were exposed to the coronavirus.
An antibody cocktail now used to treat patients fighting COVID-19 could help prevent infections in those living with or caring for COVID patients, University of Virginia researchers involved in studying the drug say.
Among the VIPs of the National Football League in Tampa for Super Bowl LV will be a lifetime Washingtonian who is a powerful force in professional football. He’s not a star quarterback or powerful lineman, a well-known coach or an owner. DeMaurice Smith, a UVA Law alumnus, is the executive director of the NFL Players Association, one of the oldest and most influential labor unions in sports.
Researchers use a basic model as a platform to address whatever specific question they need to answer. For pandemic-related questions, they specify realistic probabilities, based on available data, that each cyber-person will do things like wear a mask or refuse a vaccine, given their age, ethnicity and location. Then they turn their agents loose to go to work (at office or home), shop, meet friends and carry out all the other activities of daily life. “I call that putting agents in motion. You have to make the city come alive, because that’s where the action is,” says Madhav Marathe of UVA’s ...
There are many reasons to breathe a sigh of relief after you get your second COVID-19 vaccination, but a UVA Health doctor says life will not return back to normal immediately after receiving both doses. “Once we’ve seen the vaccine behave in the real-world conditions, we’ll get a better sense of can it prevent you from getting infected and can it prevent you from spreading if you were to get infected,” Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA assistant professor of medicine, said.
Older people and patients in long-term care facilities often face the issue of loneliness, which has been made worse by restrictions put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has prevented in-person visits in hospitals and nursing homes, but patients don't always have other means to connect to their loved ones. "Hearing that people were in isolation and unable to connect with their loved ones was just heartbreaking," said University of Virginia graduate Sara Rodell.
“We recognize that these guidelines are sometimes difficult to follow, but they are the best strategy to protect your baby for a sudden and unexpected death. We urge parents and other caregivers to follow these guidelines at nap time and night time,” says Rachel Y. Moon, pediatrician and safe infant sleep researcher at the UVA School of Medicine.
“There is a divide between Republican elites and the voters,” J Miles Coleman, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, told Al Jazeera. “You still have this faction in the House, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who are still on the Trump train.”
(Commentary by Jeff Bergner, an adjunct professor in the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) It is a media commonplace that Joe Biden faces a uniquely daunting set of challenges. Some have gone so far as to compare his challenges with those of Abraham Lincoln, conveniently forgetting Reconstruction, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, the difficult passage of civil rights legislation, Vietnam and 9/11, to name but a few of the many serious challenges the country has faced.