August
- FitzGerald to oversee new joint airport authority effort
- A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine senior administrator will lead joint efforts to establish a new airport authority in Orange County.
- Magnesium sulfate infusions reduce cerebral palsy risk in preterm births
- Giving an infusion of magnesium sulfate just before delivery to pregnant women who were at high risk for preterm birth cut the rate of cerebral palsy in the children born by half, a new study found.
- Christopher Fordham, UNC's sixth chancellor, dead at 81
- Dr. Christopher Columbus Fordham III, former dean of the School of Medicine and chancellor emeritus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who led Carolina during a span of major success in the 1980s, died early today at UNC Hospitals.
- Study finds hereditary link to premenstrual depression
- CHAPEL HILL - A specific genetic variation may be tied to an increased risk for severe premenstrual depression, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Institute of Mental Health have found.
- Newly-defined factors may prevent postpartum smoking relapse
- A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill could lead to programs designed to help women who quit smoking during pregnancy stay quit after giving birth.
- UNC researchers: Early treatment of schizophrenia patients results in greater response to antipsychotic treatment
- CHAPEL HILL -- For many years, a debate has raged among psychiatrists over whether or not early intervention after a schizophrenia patient's first episode of psychosis could improve the person's long-term outcome.
- UNC study shows link between spanking and physical abuse
- Mothers who report that they or their partner spanked their child in the past year are nearly three times more likely to state that they also used harsher forms of punishment than those who say their child was not spanked, according to a new study led by the Injury Prevention Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
