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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has brought transformational changes to the healthcare system, including, in some ACA programs, movement away from a pay-for-volume system to pay-for-performance or ou...
Over the past decade, several leading U.S. medical schools have developed courses combining art appreciation and clinical observation skills. Medical students venture from the clinical setting to t...
The history of eugenics is often characterized as a cautionary tale of life in the bad old days, when pseudoscientific assumptions about genetic determinism provided a respectable veneer that enabl...
We hear much these days about the widening gap in America between the rich and the poor, the haves and the have-nots. Inequality is all around us, and it exacts a serious toll on health. The poor d...
Nimura, Janice P.; University of Virginia. School of Medicine
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The world recoiled at the idea of a woman doctor, yet Elizabeth Blackwell persisted, and in 1849 became the first woman in the U.S. to receive an MD. Her achievement made her an icon. Her younger s...
A documentary film series and website about Virginia's history since the Civil War.
Episode 1– New Deal Virginia explores two significant changes in Virginia history: the creation of Shenandoah N...
As our companion animals grow old and infirm, veterinarians and human caregivers alike face a complex and confusing array of choices and decisions. This Medical Center Hour explores some of the cen...
With malaria a real threat to American troops' fighting fitness, the U.S. government during World War II mounted an all-out hunt for a malaria cure. Tropical-disease researchers with the Rockefelle...
In its emphasis on instrumentality, on the patient as something to be acted upon, and on the doctor as an abstracted agent of diagnosis and treatment, medicine often neglects the practitioner's inv...
This is a flythrough animation of the 3D data from laser scanner data collection at The Mews, Pavilion III, Academical Village, University of Virginia. Data was collected at different periods from...
With health care reform on the near horizon and other social realities (aging, immigration, chronic conditions, quests for prevention and wellness) dramatically changing health care in the U.S., wh...
The opioid epidemic raging in the U.S., including in Virginia and neighboring states, took nearly two decades to develop and will take years to quell. So says the recent National Academy of Medicin...
Despite their reliance on technical knowledge that requires mastery, medicine, law, and business are all deeply human professions. Medicine is more than body repair, law more than legal systems, bu...
The Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM) is perhaps the most contested document in American medicine, vital for the organization and funding of psychiatric research and menta...
With the aging of our nation's practicing physicians and the recent, steep decline in medical graduates choosing careers in primary care for adults, U.S. patients today are hard pressed to find a p...
Marijuana has had a rocky and peculiar history in the United States. The early history of marijuana prohibition is fairly well known, thanks in part to a classic work on the subject, The Marijuana ...
When it comes to matters of health, environment, and urban history, lessons of the past are often forgotten by Americans. However, in many ways, fears from American epidemics in the last 150 years ...
We hear almost daily about the rapidly increasing rate of type 2 diabetes in the U.S. population. Many pronouncements are dire, proclaiming an "epidemic," and most make it sound as though this prob...
In this 2023 testimony, Tiara Lassiter speaks about her experiences going to the Community Center in Lambert’s Point and the impact coal dust has on the drinking water supply for residents in Lambe...
The first global wave of reform in modern medical education occurred early in the 20th century, following the Flexner report. The second wave came in the latter half of that same century, led by in...
The opioid epidemic is currently exacting a terrible toll on the health, lives, safety, and livelihood of persons and communities across Virginia, the Appalachian region, and, indeed, much of North...
Vernon Crump was born in 1929 in Portsmouth, Virginia, and has been a leader in civil rights work in the city since he was 25 years old. Crump’s roots in the area extend for generations. Crump’s gr...
This is a flythrough animation of the 3D data captured at the Villa Almerico Capra Valmaran, aka Villa la Rotonda, in March 2019. Data was captured by University of Virginia Architectural History ...
This is a video of aerial footage of the Villa Almerico Capra Valmarana, aka Villa la Rotonda, Vicenza, Italy. This video was created by Shayne Brandon, Institute for Advanced Technologies in the ...
The 1918 influenza pandemic was a global calamity that brought death on an unprecedented scale and intensified the devastating impact of World War I even as the armistice was signed in November 191...
Some physicians are born to write, while others have writing thrust upon them. As one of the latter, 2013 Moore Lecturer Margaret Mohrmann discusses what she has learned from writing about doctorin...
What still resonates with you when you're spent? What can a caregiver—or a teacher, a leader, a colleague—offer and do when all else fails, when all that's left is our humanity? In this Medical Cen...
Whether we are students, educators, or clinicians (learners all!), our stated assumptions and principles are sometimes at odds with our actual practices. In this Brodie Medical Education Award Lect...
Since passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, this particular road to health care reform in the U.S. has been riddled with political potholes and subject to slowdow...
Amid the current opioid epidemic in the U.S., discourse around addicts and addiction can be overwhelmingly negative, pessimistic, and hopeless, reinforcing negative stereotypes. Even in health care...
