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Soap and water, chlorine- but not alcohol-based products, should reduce anthrax contamination risks, study reveals
CHAPEL HILL -- Old-fashioned hand washing with soap and water significantly reduces the amount of contamination on volunteers’ hands from a form of bacteria comparable to anthrax, a new study shows. A chlorine-based antiseptic product worked about the same and did not require running water.
Blood donors urgently needed at UNC Hospitals Blood Center
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The cold and flu season has caused a drop in collections at the UNC Hospitals Blood Center and additional donors are needed immediately to meet the demand for patient needs.
Harvard’s Eisenberg, ‘The People’s Pharmacy’ hosts highlight integrative medicine conference
CHAPEL HILL -- The use of complementary, alternative and integrative medicine continues to increase, making it even more critical that health professionals know specifics of these therapies’ safety and effectiveness.
Capsule endoscopy: Doctors at UNC now use camera patients can swallow
CHAPEL HILL -- Physicians at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine are using cameras patients can swallow to look at the small intestine without surgery.
Hidden chlamydia epidemic found in China by joint research team
CHAPEL HILL -- Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have helped identify a large, undetected epidemic of the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia in China.
Researchers find blacks also have telltale protein, but it’s higher in osteoarthritis patients and men
CHAPEL HILL -- Medical scientists have known for the past decade that levels of an important protein known as COMP were higher in cartilage, ligaments, tendons and joint lubricating fluid of whites with osteoarthritis than in whites without the painful, degenerative illness.
Study pinpoints regulator of imprinted gene expression; findings in mice hold implications for human disorders
CHAPEL HILL -- New research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers an important contribution to a new wave of thinking in genetics: the idea that not all human disease states are due to alterations in DNA sequence.
UNC Family Practice Center receives March of Dimes grant to fund pilot study for group prenatal care
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The UNC Family Practice Center has received a grant from the March of Dimes to fund a program that fills an unmet maternal and child health need.
Golden honored for achievements in field of mood disorders
Dr. Robert N. Golden, professor and chairman of the UNC School of Medicine department of psychiatry, recently received the American College of Psychiatrists Mood Disorders Research Award.
UNC to test new assist device for failed livers
CHAPEL HILL -- Prospects for surviving acute liver failure are very slim, and statistics place mortality as high as 90 percent. A liver transplant may be the only alternative before fatal complications set in, yet not enough donor organs are available to meet the demand.
UNC Center for Maternal and Infant Health receives March of Dimes award to improve health of North Carolina’s mothers and babies
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The UNC Center for Maternal and Infant Health has received a $3,000 community award from the North Carolina chapter of the March of Dimes.
Medical school seniors to learn where they will spend residency Thursday
CHAPEL HILL -- On Thursday (March 20), some 136 graduating medical students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will learn where they'll spend the next several years completing their residencies.
Scientist says recent UNC research suggests better nerve agent treatment
CHAPEL HILL - Research conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in rats suggests that a promising new treatment for nerve agent toxicity may exist, and scientists involved in the experiments say further work should reveal the most appropriate conditions and timing for its use. Such efforts are important, they say, because of the war with Iraq and fears of possible chemical terrorism.
Matters of the Heart: Helping a family member with heart disease
Cam Patterson, M.D., chief of cardiology for UNC Health Care, explains five things you can do to help a friend or family member who has heart disease.
UNC Hospitals begins blood platelet collections at second location; need for donors urgent
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – UNC Hospitals will begin collecting blood platelets at a second location on Monday, March 10, and there is an urgent need for donors.
Videoconference on ‘National Prematurity Campaign’ on Monday; 2 UNC sites to participate
CHAPEL HILL -- Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sites will participate in a videoconference, “The National Prematurity Campaign: A Call to Action,” 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monday (March 17) featuring a leading expert in the field.
Study: Prenatal screening in Haiti region cut syphilis by 75 percent
CHAPEL HILL -- Using a simple intervention, clinicians and health scientists working in Haiti successfully cut the incidence of congenital syphilis in a rural region of that impoverished nation by 75 percent -- meaning that far fewer babies will inherit the dangerous illness from infected mothers.
Association honors Watson with Member-in-Training Award
The American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry recently honored Dr. Lea C. Watson with its 2003 Member-in-Training Award.
Women’s health day to focus on media coverage, policy
CHAPEL HILL -- Following a year of highly publicized announcements about hormone replacement therapy and mammography research, the media’s role in public understanding of women’s health issues will be the topic of the 2003 Women’s Health Research Day.
