In the past, the only way to determine salt sensitivity was by placing a patient on a stringent, two-week long salt-restricted diet. A faster, more convenient test has been developed by a team of researchers led by Kwabena Sarpong of the UVA School of Medicine.
Anderson raised his concerns in April, after he says new information came to light during the testimony of a researcher involved in an unrelated recent case. At that time, Anderson released sworn testimony from University of Virginia professor Janet Warren, who was hired by the Boy Scouts to conduct a study of the organization's sexual abuse files. That report found that 12,254 children were allegedly abused by 7,819 Scout leaders.
"So many kids do get services while they are in high school, and then when they leave, there may not be a safety net or services available to them," said Dewey Cornell, a forensic clinical psychologist and education professor at the University of Virginia. He said the age of greatest risk "for serious acts of violence is in the late teens and early 20s, after the high school years."
Another Democrat has joined the contest to attempt to wrest Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District from Republican control. Dr. Cameron Webb is a hospitalist, assistant professor of medicine and a director of health policy and equity at the University of Virginia.
Over the past two decades as crime rates fell and incarceration rates rose, some have argued, according to UVA Professor Brandon Garrett, “that one way to begin dialing down ‘mass incarceration’ without simultaneously jeopardizing the historically low crime rate is to put risk assessment back into sentencing.”
(Commentary by Neeti Nair, associate professor of history and Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars) BJP is so convinced about the lack of support for its move in Kashmir that it has brought in even more troops to maintain ‘law and order’. Kashmir is in lockdown. The special status of Jammu and Kashmir has been ‘scrapped’ as though it were a mere doodle, and not the only semblance of legal fiction that continues to tie India to Kashmir. To be fair to the Bharatiya Janata Party, this had always been on its agenda.
(Commentary) Philip Zelikow, a former State Department official who teaches at the University of Virginia, warned that he sees “a one-in-three chance of major crisis over Taiwan in the next year or so.”
“For many reasons, I agree that our adversarial system is a very flawed way to assess expert testimony. I don’t agree, however, that the qualities of a good scientist would necessarily be incompatible with persuasiveness,” said Barbara A. Spellman of the UVA School of Law. “A good scientist, who is also a good teacher, should be able to explain things in ways that jurors would find understandable and, therefore, if appropriate, persuasive.”
The human body is made to move, and physical activity is a requirement for lifelong health. But exercise-related injuries are a significant concern few people think about until it’s too late. “I think a lot of people, especially those in their 20s and 30s, are interested in doing a lot of exercise, but they’re not really thinking about injuries,” says Dr. Brian Werner, a UVA orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist.
Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics says most people do agree on at least one move: universal background checks. But he says the reason bills failed during last month's special session is partisanship and mixed government.
(Commentary by W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project) Up until now, there hasn’t been a study of the impact of internet fidelity – or the lack thereof – on real-world relationships. So, with a new nationally representative survey from YouGov, The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University set out to explore the association between people’s attitudes and behaviors regarding what social scientists call “attractive alternatives” online and the quality of their relationshi...
One in five mothers suffer from postpartum depression. Now a UVA Health biomedical research project is giving an $80,000 grant to research teams to help women across Virginia.
(Subscription required) Researchers at the University of Virginia discovered that 31% of kindergarten teachers in 1998 agreed that children should learn to read in kindergarten. By 2010, that number had risen to 80%. Children who can’t meet this evolving benchmark may find themselves labeled or medicated.
“Legacies are protean things,” said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at UVA’s Miller Center, “and the prism through which we view these presidencies changes depending on the circumstances.” As “political conditions of the time” change, Riley said, Clinton, Obama, and even Reagan will see their standing rise and fall.
Researchers are hunting for nuclear debris, mercury pollution and other fingerprints of humanity that could designate a new geological epoch. UVA palaeoclimatologist William Ruddiman and others have pushed for starting the Anthropocene when humans first began terrascaping Earth with agriculture thousands of years ago, or when they wiped out the megafauna of Australia and North America many millennia before 1950.
Since 2014, UVA has admitted in-state students who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children. Those students previously have been required to pay the full cost of tuition out-of-pocket. Beginning this fall, in-state undergraduate students with DACA status will be eligible for financial aid. The money will come from private funding.
Too much of one thing is never good. University of Virginia sports medicine orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Winston Gwathmey, suggests parents should encourage their children to play more than one sport to prevent injury and burn out.
Richard Schragger, Perre Bowen Professor of Law at the UVA School of Law, talks with Les Sinclair about the similarities and differences in these two Virginia statues cases.
More women in Southwestern Virginia get cervical cancer, and more die from it, than in other parts of the country. But, for one of its most common forms, caused by the human papilloma virus or HPV, there’s a vaccine that’s been available for the last 10 years that prevents it entirely. Jess Malpas is a nurse scientist at the University of Virginia. She’s a point person in an upcoming five-year study of human papilloma virus prevention. “Upwards of 50% of people are exposed at any given time. And this vaccine is one of the only forms of prevention we have, in terms of a vaccine for cancer, whic...
Saikrishna Prakash, professor at the University of Virginia, said "nothing in the American legal system precludes a prosecutor from commenting upon a case she investigated."