This year, there’s a 20% increase in dementia-related deaths compared to the same time last year. So why is there such a big difference between this year and last year? Dr. Laurie Archbald-Pannone with the University of Virginia says these findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention correspond with her work.
Mass General Brigham is out with a plan to dismantle racism within its 12-hospital network. Dr. Taison Bell, who trained at Mass General, now an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, applauds MGB’s plan as a whole. He urges the hospital to consider adding a community health center in one of Boston’s predominantly Black neighborhoods.
With less than a week before Election Day, President Donald Trump held a pair of in-person campaign rallies in Arizona on Wednesday despite a U.S. surge in COVID-19 cases and criticism he is prioritizing his re-election above the health of his supporters. Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, said the rallies could backfire.
After Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential election, he got to work on a Republican promise to “attack the root causes of poverty,” agreeing to support a basic income payment, tied to work. “But, you know, it cost a lot so he really wasn’t for it and just expected it to die in committee, and it did,” said Ken Hughes, a historian at UVA’s Miller Center.
Thanks to secret ballots, no one can confirm how you vote this November, but it wasn’t always that way. Voting used to be a public affair. The University of Virginia website recounts how eligible American voters – “all men in those days” – would do so either by viva voce (calling out their preferred candidates) or by depositing “a highly visible ticket in a box or transparent jar or hand[ing] it in to an election clerk.”
Leaders from Albemarle County, the City of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia met virtually on Wednesday to work on improving equality in the area.
UVA’s Darden School of Business/Batten Institute offers a Master of Business Administration degree program with a major concentration in entrepreneurship and innovation that is recognized among the best masters in entrepreneurship programs in the United States. The program is ranked #8 on the list.
With the pandemic putting an end to lots of human activities that bring us joy, plenty of people have contracted a case of the blues, but at the University of Virginia some students are hoping to help with a new service based on an old idea – the singing telegram.
Halloween is on Saturday and children currently at UVA Children’s will be celebrating with onesies, coloring books and, of course, candy.
Charlottesville, Albemarle County and UVA officials are taking steps to be more collaborative as they work to increase equity and inclusion in their respective organizations.
Will we see a COVID-19 vaccine before the end of the year? UVA researchers say no, but they are making progress.
The raw numbers are staggering. As of Tuesday afternoon, at least 69 million Americans had already voted in the 2020 election. “There is definitely a spike in early voting for young people,” says John Holbein, a University of Virginia professor and author of the book “Making Young Voters.”
Trump has kept a number of pledges, including tax cuts and conservative judges. But not on others such as bringing back coal and replacing Obamacare. Larry Sabato, director of Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said the president “has certainly fulfilled some promises.”
Syaru Shirley Lin, visiting professor at the University of Virginia and non-resident senior fellow at Brookings Institution, discusses increasing tensions between China and Taiwan.
"Biden seems poised to flip back three key states in the Rust Belt that Trump carried in 2016: Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Biden's average leads in those first two states are around 7-8%, while his edge is Pennsylvania is smaller, at about 5%," said J. Miles Coleman at the University of Virginia's Centre for Politics.
Richmond City Circuit Court Judge W. Reilly Marchant found the 130-year-old restrictive covenant which deeded the statue and the land underneath it to Virginia is no longer valid due to changes in public policy. Rich Schragger, the Perre Bowen Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the inclusion of both arguments for public policy reasons is important, but the deference given to the legislature is what will help the state if and when the decision is appealed to the Supreme Court of Virginia.
For the ninth consecutive year, the University of Virginia School of Medicine has earned a national award for its “outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion.”
UVA Health is ramping up its community COVID-19 testing efforts, now offering hundreds of tests a week at four locations.
Black and Hispanic patients had a more rapid decline in kidney function after new-onset CKD compared with white patients. "[T]his was truly driven by a greater risk of kidney failure due to faster decline in kidney function after CKD onset, rather than because of lower risks of death prior to kidney failure," the study's lead author, Guofen Yan of the University of Virginia, pointed out in a statement.