THORNBERRY: Don’t pass judgement on trigger warnings without all the facts
Opinion columnist Alex Mink’s column grossly misunderstands and misrepresents the reality of trigger warnings, and the benefits they can have for victims of trauma.
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Opinion columnist Alex Mink’s column grossly misunderstands and misrepresents the reality of trigger warnings, and the benefits they can have for victims of trauma.
I’d like to start with an apology. To the lovely and talented Julia Horowitz, who served as my editor-in-chief in both high school and college: I apologize for never going out for the news section like I promised you I would. You told me working on a one day deadline would help my time management, fact gathering and writing skills. It was really good advice, I just never quite managed to follow it, and while those last two can be found in just about any section, I didn’t really ever pick up the first.
The Center for Global Health hosted a discussion on early childhood nutrition Friday with two main areas of focus — general trends in early childhood nutrition and a project in Ecuador that reduced childhood stunting by giving infants eggs.
The Medical Center Hour held a panel Wednesday on healthcare reform post-election, entitled “Morning in America.” Public Health Science Assoc. Prof. Carolyn Engelhard moderated the panel in which B. Rick Mayes, co-director of the University of Richmond’s Healthcare Studies major, and David Toscano, Virginia House of Delegates Democratic leader, spoke about changes with how doctors will be paid and the history and future of the Affordable Care Act.
President-elect Donald Trump said on his website that he will start working to repeal the Affordable Care Act as soon as he takes office. However, Trump told nonpartisan organization Science Debate that the national government should provide support to state and local mental healthcare efforts.
The Center for Global Health and the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center hosted a conference Wednesday that brought together University researchers and a delegation from Oman that included the Omani Minister of Health and the Omani ambassador to the United States.
Last Tuesday, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, or RAINN, issued a statement condemning Donald Trump’s claim that a recorded conversation he had with Billy Bush on Access Hollywood was just “locker room talk.” In the statement, RAINN said the weekend after the tapes were released, the National Sexual Assault Hotline had 33 percent more online sessions than it had the previous weekend.
Tuesday, the Medical Center Hour, hosted by the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities and the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, addressed the ethical and practical issues of providing undocumented immigrants with health care in a presentation called “Patients without Passports.”
The Data Science Institute Friday hosted its second annual Datapalooza, a day-long conference designed to connect people currently conducting data-based research at the University, and to let people know about resources available to them. Speakers, researchers, an open source fair and an interactive art exhibit addressed this year’s main theme, “Visualization.”
Last week, To Write Love on Her Arms hosted a week of events in honor of National Suicide Prevention Week. The week featured painting Beta Bridge, speakers and state Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-Bath) discussing his work on mental health treatment.
The start of a new school year is exciting, but can also lead to an increase in stress. Whether they’re worried about the so-called freshman 15 or developing senioritis, college students should be aware that developing good habits at the start of the year can save them headaches down the line.
Last Wednesday and Thursday, the University — along with the Virginia Department of Health and a number of other medical schools and accountable care organizations, or ACOs — hosted the second annual Population Health Summit for Virginia.
This Friday, medical students at the University and around the country celebrated Match Day — the day they find out to which residency programs they’ve been accepted.
On Friday, Yap Boum II, PhD, gave a talk about his experience with Ebola vaccine trials as part of the Center for Global Health’s Infectious Disease and Biodefense series.
On Jan. 29, the National Cancer Institute released guidelines on how to best allocate scarce chemotherapy drugs for childhood cancer patients. The institute notes three critical factors in determining the allocation of scarce life-saving drugs for children with cancer: "Curability, prognosis and the incremental importance of a particular drug to a given patient's outcome,” according to The Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
In the seminal 1989 film, “When Harry Met Sally,” Sally (Meg Ryan) shows an incredulous Harry (Billy Crystal) how women fake orgasms after he claims that he’s left every woman he’s ever been with satisfied.
Congress has appropriated $19.3 billion for NASA for the 2016 fiscal year. Though this constitutes less than 1 percent of the total budget, it is still a significant increase over previous years, and more than either NASA or President Barack Obama had asked for initially.
The School of Medicine hosted a Medical Center Hour Tuesday that required two overflow rooms. Roughly 400 people came to listen to Dr. Ian Crozier speak about his experiences as both a doctor working to treat Ebola and an Ebola survivor.
The University Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, the University Institute for Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy and the Law School hosted a panel on gun violence and mental illness Wednesday.
To Write Love on Her Arms curated National Suicide Prevention Week with a series of events ranging from speed friending to suicide prevention training, all tied together by this year’s theme, “We’ll see you tomorrow.”