The UVA Medical Center says 111 patients were reported with flu symptoms at the hospital last week.
For 12 years, Dr. Adam Goldfarb’s lab at the University of Virginia has studied the causes of iron-restricted anemia. Now, a discovery in Goldfarb’s lab is helping to shed light on how red blood cells are created and how anemia can be treated.
Teenagers who regularly fall out with friends age faster than their peers, according to a 15-year study. UVA researchers monitored 127 volunteers from the age of 13, asking how they got on with friends and others. When the volunteers turned 28 they were given blood tests, which found that those who’d experienced the worst social conflict had the highest level of interleukin 6, a protein associated with cancer, arthritis and other problems associated with ageing.
In Virginia, 108 localities have a meals tax higher than 4 percent, according to a UVA study. The highest meals tax is in Covington, a small city in the western part of the state, where diners are charged 8 percent.
Iron-restricted anemias – which are characterized by a lack of red blood cells – leave millions of people weak, tired and unable to concentrate. New research by the UVA School of Medicine sheds light on the process that causes the body to create insufficient numbers of these vital red blood cells, and could lead to new treatments for the condition.
Sen. Ben Chafin, R-Russell, and Del. Terry Kilgore, R-Scott, introduced budget amendments requesting more than $10 million for a proposed expansion of UVA-Wise.
UVA psychologist Tim Wilson has found that the best way to change our identity is to change our behavior first. “If we want to become a little more extroverted, then act that way for a while. Force ourselves to act in an extroverted way,” he said. “If we want to become better, more pro-social, helpful people, well then go out and do some volunteer work. Often, the story follows the behavior change.”
"Maintaining a healthy, sustainable fishery in southern New England into the future will be increasingly challenging with further climate change and ocean warming," said Scott Doney, UVA’s Joe D. and Helen J. Kington Professor in Environmental Change and a co-author of the new study.
(Commentary) Other than our people themselves, Virginia’s single greatest asset — the one that produces the strongest economic return for our commonwealth — is our stand-out public and private higher education system.
Charlottesville's Champion Brewing Company and Brasserie Saison have raised more than $4,600 to support rural communities in east Africa. Champion Brewing Company raised most of the money through the sale of its Waterboys IPA - a beer brewed in collaboration with former UVA All-American Chris Long.
Children with married parents also have access to more engaged parents, better resources, and larger networks to draw from when looking for jobs, said W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. “Most kids who are raised in a single-parent family turn out fine and we can’t lose sight of that,” Wilcox said. They are, though, two to three times more likely to experience delinquency, depression and drop out of high school.
Sidney Milkis is part of UVA’s Miller Center. He and others at the Miller Center are specialists on U.S. political history. Milkis says that, when it was created in the late 1700s, the U.S. presidency was unlike any other position in world history.
Whether the continuing standoff will wound Trump remains to be seen. "The political stakes as to who gets helped and who gets hurt are so uncertain," said Chris Lu, a former Obama administration official who is now a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center. And in today's fast-paced and volatile political environment, any "advantage or disadvantage could be mitigated next week by another news event."
The way a department handles misconduct, enforces its rules and instructs its officers – or doesn't – influences police conduct, according to a 2004 report, "Organizational Culture and Police Misconduct," by UVA law professor Barbara E. Armacost. When an incident of police misconduct becomes public, departments tend to distance themselves from the officer by characterizing them as "rogue" instead of looking at the organizational norms and policies that framed the cop's judgment in the first place, she said.
Gibbons and Renacci have much in common on the face of it. Both are northeast Ohio Republicans and both area very successful and very wealthy businessmen. Renacci starts out with more name recognition, but not a whole lot more. Kyle Kondik, an Ohioan is who is managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a highly-regarded weekly politics newsletter published by UVA’s Center for Politics, is not convinced that Renacci is unbeatable in a GOP primary. "Mandel was a candidate who didn't have a federal voting record that could come back to haunt him,'' Kondik says.
The UVA Medical Center is improving its processes, officials said. Dr. Tracey Hoke, chief of quality and performance improvement, said the hospital has seen its rates of several hospital-acquired infections decrease by as much as 70 percent in the past four years due to deliberate, methodical adjustments in all stages of care.
Each year, the congregation honors one Charlottesville citizen with the MLK Community Award. This year, UVA President Teresa Sullivan was the honoree. “I'm terribly honored, and frankly I was quite surprised – I didn't know this was coming,” says Sullivan. Recipients of this award are chosen for their efforts in fostering King’s principles and ideals within the community. Church leaders believe that Sullivan embodied those traits over the past year.
“Today’s adults are not spending a lot of time shopping like my parents’ generation did,” said Kim Whitler, a marketing professor at the UVA’s Darden School of Business. “Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z, they’re all time-starved and want to order groceries while they’re riding a bus to work.”
As colleges and universities look ahead to their spring terms, or welcome students back for January winter sessions, the new year of 2018 promises to be a critical one for higher education. From the impact of new federal tax legislation to the debate about immigration, these and other national and global issues have relevance to institutions large and small, wealthy or not.
The annual event featured the presentation of an annual award given to an individual who fosters the principles and ideals of The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The Rev. Alvin Edwards, pastor of Mount Zion First African Baptist, presented the award to UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan.