The latest Reuters poll now has Republicans leading the Democrats. If the trend continues, Republicans could actually get to the 60 seats needed for a filibuster-proof Senate, enough to overcome any Democratic objections. The math tilts Republican. As explained by Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics, “Democrats are defending 26 of the 35 Senate seats being contested this year, including 10 seats in states that President Donald Trump won in the last presidential election. If one uses such seats as a proxy for the most vulnerable Democratic-held Senate seats – a reasonable metric – th...
In May, UVA held an LGBTQ Health Care Symposium to discuss the unique needs of those patients, and what hospitals and health care providers can do to provide the best care.
(Co-written by Brian Moriarty, professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business) Despite the global dominance of the Coke brand, its independently owned bottlers make the brand a local business for many communities. For the community of Kerala, India, criticism of the brand became a flashpoint both locally – and globally.
Our entire top three is different this year. Chicago is at No. 1, the University of Virginia School of Law is No. 2 and Duke Law is No. 3.
Efforts led by a UVA Medical Center doctor have led to a recommendation that more Americans should be screened for colorectal cancer. “In the last 10 years, we’ve gotten a variety of new evidence in colorectal screening,” said Dr. Andrew Wolf, an associate professor of medicine and a general internist at the Medical Center. “Colorectal cancer is really reaching into younger and younger populations.”
“The 10th is a district that Hillary Clinton carried, but has a Republican member of Congress in Barbara Comstock, so it’s a high-level target for Democrats,” said Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Comstock will, to some degree, probably be hanging on for dear life. She may be able to pull it out. But at the same time, we rate that race as a toss-up.”
Documentary filmmaker Leslie Cockburn won the Democratic nomination earlier this month for the House of Representatives race in Virginia’s 5th district. Almost immediately afterwards, the Republican Party of Virginia accused her of being a “virulent anti-Semite,” citing a book she had written years ago that was highly critical of U.S. policy toward Israel. “For a Democrat to win in this district, they have to win very large margins in the Charlottesville region,” Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics said. “That’s really your only path. … [The accusation] puts her on the defensive, it ...
The new bargaining system, which resembles what is known as plea bargaining in the West, allows criminal suspects to negotiate deals with prosecutors in exchange for information on another criminal. Out of 330 DNA exoneration cases in the U.S., 22 percent involved informant testimony that was used as evidence to convict, according to Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the UVA School of Law.
Some experts have worried about pre-50 risks of colon cancer in some racial and ethnic groups, and at least one specialty society for gastroenterologists has urged screening of black adults starting at age 45. Dr. Andrew Wolf, the lead author of the latest guidelines, said they considered and rejected that reasoning. "We should be able to do both," said Wolf, a UVA internist.
The Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corp., known as the Virginia Catalyst, announced a $500,000 grant award Wednesday for research on brain injury detection. The collaborative team includes UVA, the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Carilion Medical Center and BRAINBox Solutions Inc., which has its headquarters in Richmond. BRAINBox Solutions will provide a $500,000 funding match.
Researchers have discovered two new vulnerabilities in voice-powered assistants, like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, that can allow attackers to steal sensitive information. In the first security analysis of the VPA ecosystem, researchers from Indiana University, the Chinese Academy of Science and the University of Virginia demonstrated how VPAs could be tricked by simple homophones - words that sound the same but have different meanings.
Benzocaine can lead to a rare but deadly condition called methemoglobinemia, where there is reduced oxygen delivery to the body. Dr. Nathan Charlton, a UVA medical toxicologist, believes that this is a true public safety concern. “While complications are rare, methemoglobinemia does occur and is not something that consumers are generally aware of or understand that they should look for signs and symptoms,” he said.
“We hear ‘Disney,’ and we think kids’ movies and things that everyone just kind of loves,” said Carmenita Higginbotham, a UVA professor who is one of the country’s leading Disney scholars. “And the company likes riding the middle, because that’s where the money is. But now they’re taking all these public hits – they’re going from the middle to riding the edges – and it’s just startling to watch.”
In a paper published in early May, researchers from UVA, Indiana University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified two techniques that could be used to manipulate users into sharing private data with malicious apps.
The Landscape Architecture Foundation has announced the two winners and six finalists for its 2018 Olmsted Scholars Program, a leading national leadership award program for landscape architecture students. Elizabeth Camuti, a master’s student at the University of Virginia, was selected as the 2018 National Olmsted Scholar, receiving the $25,000 graduate prize.
Although the overall cost of hypertension rose, the study found that individual expenses remained stable over time. Patient spending, however, shifted from inpatient to more outpatient, perhaps due to better patient access to preventive and outpatient care under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, Kirkland said. “A reduction in inpatient costs is good,” said cardiovascular endocrinologist Dr. Robert M. Carey, vice chairman of the committee that wrote the 2017 AHA/ACC blood pressure guidelines and dean emeritus of the UVA School of Medicine. “It may mean we’re getting a better handle on blood pressur...
He similarly retweeted University of Virginia Center for Politics director Larry Sabato’s Twitter post praising former President George H. W. Bush’s tweet in which he expressed his "regret” for missing a Memorial Day parade. “What a sane, modest contrast to Trump’s narcissistic tweet this morning making Memorial Day all about him,” Sabato wrote. “But then Bush 41 is a genuine war hero who would have served even with a bone spur in his foot.”
The party is unlikely to select a current General Assembly member, according to Larry J. Sabato, a political analyst and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Selecting a current House of Delegates member would upset a delicate GOP majority in Richmond, Sabato said. The party currently holds a one-seat majority in the Virginia House. “There could be 10 to 12 candidates throwing their hats in the ring,” he said. “It’s such a short time before the filing deadline that they could run for as little as $10,000 to $25,000.”
Then there are the more logistical concerns. Brian Nosek, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who was consulted on the training, worried that Starbucks was moving ahead too quickly. Productive sessions, he said, require concrete goals, specific behavioral standards and a clear metric for evaluating performance. “Training to make a caramel macchiato can be quite effective,” he said. “Training to be unbiased toward your fellow human doesn’t achieve any of those criteria.”
Trump’s habit of making unsubstantiated claims has no precedence in modern U.S. history, said Barbara Perry, the director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia. Before Trump, “Richard Nixon was the closest thing we had to a prevaricating president,” Perry said. “Nixon had always been viewed as a shady character. His nickname was Tricky Dick. But Nixon didn’t typically go out to the American people and tell a big lie every day.”