
VCU Health updates visitor policy, extending visiting hours
Effective today, non-COVID-19 inpatients at VCU Medical Center can receive more visitors during extended visiting hours.

Effective today, non-COVID-19 inpatients at VCU Medical Center can receive more visitors during extended visiting hours.

The American shad’s Atlantic population remains at a historic low, despite longstanding commercial fishing bans in several states and millions of dollars invested in restoring its spawning habitat in rivers and creeks.

In Waldorf Schools around the world – particularly those in the Northern Hemisphere, where the holiday coincides with the cooler weather and increasing darkness – Michaelmas is a beloved and highly anticipated annual celebration.

Did you know that African American women are 42 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, or that African American men are 50 percent more likely to die from colorectal cancer than white men?

Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy, Gaye Adegbalola, Sen. Tim Kaine, and former HUD Secretary Julián Castro will be joining the Qasim Rashid campaign to kick off phone banks during the campaign’s Get Out the Vote kick off on Saturday.

The Albemarle County Police Department has received accreditation as a State Accredited Law Enforcement Agency for the sixth time.

Football coaches have had a lot to think through when it comes to even just being able to run practices.

A coalition of 23 attorneys general is opposing a new proposed rule from HUD that would weaken protections for transgender and gender nonconforming individuals in HUD-funded shelters.

A team of scientists led by Paul Dent at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center has discovered that an experimental cancer drug called AR-12 inhibits the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, from infecting cells and replicating.

In a paper published Friday by the Journal of the American Medical Association, Virginia Commonwealth University researchers released data showing an alarming surge in opioid-related overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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