“We see lifestyle modification as the cornerstone for treatment,” said Dr. Roebrt Carey, vice-chair of the guidelines committee and professor of medicine at the UVA School of Medicine.
The change is expected to triple the number of men under age 45 diagnosed with hypertension and double the number among women the same age. The vast majority will be told to improve their lifestyles, with a healthier diet, weight loss, exercise and cutting back on alcohol and salt. Only those who have other factors that put them at risk of heart disease should be given medication, said Robert Carey, professor at the UVA School of Medicine.
“Lifestyle modification is the cornerstone for treatment of hypertension,” said Dr. Robert Carey of the University of Virginia, who helped write the guidelines.
The Foothills Forum, funded mostly by individual donors, is producing in-depth enterprise well beyond the capability of the single editorial staffer employed by the weekly Rappahannock News, the only news source in Rappahannock County. Although its output is modest—four multi-part series in the last 18 months—the Forum is changing news expectations for the county’s 7,400 residents scattered across the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In the end they settled on a nonprofit that would steer away from the traditional step of setting up a newsroom; rather, it would commission major freel...
Inside a solar cell, sunlight excites electrons. But these electrons often don't last long enough to go on to power cell phones or warm homes. In a promising new type of solar cell, the solar-excited electrons have better odds going on to work. Why? A team led by UVA researchers discovered the dominant mechanism for the higher carrier lifetime that is responsible for the superior hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite solar cell performance. The mechanism involves screening excited charge carriers by the rotating positively charged (cationic) organic molecules in the crystal.
UVA unveiled a memorial Friday afternoon that was years in the making. Proposed and executed by students, with guidance from UVA professors, staff and local architects, the University Remembrance Garden features a curved concrete wall and is designed to be a place for the UVA community to commemorate and grieve lost friends, family and peers.
Hundreds of women leaders from around the country and the world have descended on UVA for the first Global Women's Leadership Forum. The event, which will conclude Tuesday with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is part of UVA's bicentennial celebration, says the forum's steering committee chair, Stewart Gamage.
Brad Wilcox, a UVA sociologist who studies marriage and families in the United States, said that while people tended to date and marry younger in the 1970s and 1980s, when Moore allegedly was dating teenagers, an age gap such as that between Moore and the girls would still have been highly unusual.
(By Sarah Kenny, Student Council president) We, the student body presidents of colleges and universities across the United States, are joining forces this evening to share a message with our nation. Exactly three months ago, white supremacists and neo-Nazis rallied in Charlottesville to incite violence and intimidation.
Under new guidelines formulated by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, the number of men under age 45 with a diagnosis of high blood pressure will triple, and the prevalence among women under age 45 will double. “Those numbers are scary,” said Dr. Robert M. Carey, a UVA professor of medicine and co-chair of the committee that wrote the new guidelines.
People were helping a former UVA baseball player find a cure for multiple sclerosis on Sunday. Ryan Zimmerman, who now plays for the Washington Nationals, hosted his annual Strike Out MS bowling event at Kegler's Lanes.
A Major League Baseball star and former Wahoo baseball player returned to Charlottesville on Sunday for a bowling fundraiser to support research in the fight against multiple sclerosis. Washington Nationals first baseman Ryan Zimmerman and his foundation are looking to strike out MS. This bowling event has been going on for years as a way to raise money for the multiple sclerosis clinic at the University of Virginia.
“Certainly Tuesday night was a triumph for McAuliffe, who looks like a potential if not likely presidential contender. His pitch is simple: ‘We took on Trump in Virginia and won,’” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of the UVA Center for Politics Sabato Crystal Ball.
In a paper entitled “Is Kindergarten the new first grade?” Daphna Bassok, a UVA assistant professor of education and public policy, noted that in 1998, only 30 percent of teachers believed that children should learn to read while in kindergarten, a figure which rose to 80 percent in 2001.
(Commentary by Brantly Womack, professor of foreign affairs) President Trump may check his seat belt and life vest twice as he flies between Hanoi and Manila over the South China Sea. The problems of the water below him begin with its name. Trump’s hosts will call it the “South Sea” (China), the “East Sea” (Vietnam), and the “West Philippines Sea” (guess who), while Indonesia calls it the “North Natuna Sea.”
William H. Macy attended the Virginia Film Festival on Friday for the premiere of his new film "Krystal." The film focuses on a young man who develops a crush on a stripper. Macy and co-star Nick Robinson answered questions about the film on Friday.
Spike Lee does not mince words. The Academy Award-winning director attended the 30th annual Virginia Film Festival on Saturday and spoke frankly about America’s divisive history, Charlottesville’s own recent clashes with white supremacy and the ongoing issue of violence against African-Americans and other minorities.
Local journalism makes all journalism and, eventually, movies about journalism possible. That was the message of Wyatt Andrews, a UVA professor and former CBS News correspondent, and Jim Lehrer, former executive editor and anchor for PBS’s “NewsHour,” after Sunday’s viewing of the 1987 movie “Broadcast News” at the Virginia Film Festival.
Local journalism makes all journalism and, eventually, movies about journalism possible. That was the message of Wyatt Andrews, a UVA professor and former CBS News correspondent, and Jim Lehrer, former executive editor and anchor for PBS’s “NewsHour,” after Sunday’s viewing of the 1987 movie “Broadcast News” at the Virginia Film Festival.
A new documentary focuses on the events of Aug. 12 through the eyes of journalism. “Charlottesville: Our Streets” premiered on the final day of the Virginia Film Festival on Sunday.