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This permanent birth control option is a popular one for men who are done having children—including the urologist who performs them.
How to know if a bump on the head is serious or just needs a kiss to make it better.
It’s not just bad for your sex life. It can signal life-threatening conditions.
Fewer cases are reported, but the virus is still a threat.
Epidemiology, Maternal Health, Zika
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Think your brain and belly don’t talk to each other? Think again.
Digestive Health, Gastroenterology, Research
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For the first time, UNC School of Medicine Research shows that hormone replacement therapy in early menopause can prevent depression.
Depression, Health, Physicians, Publications, Research
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Building a better pain medication, one step at a time: scientists at UNC have made a discovery that may eliminate opioid side effects one day.
Addiction, Innovation, Pain, Pharmacology, Physicians, Research
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Why are black women's and white women's breast cancer outcomes so different? UNC researchers set out to find out.
Breast Cancer, Cancer, Health, Research, Social Justice
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Speedy action is still critical, but doctors’ tools have expanded, according to new treatment guidelines developed by a group of experts led by a UNC neurologist.
Autism Speak, the NIH and Spectrum all singled out a team at the UNC School of Medicine for top honors in 2017.
UNC's Bowles Alcohol Research center is helping us understand alcohol's effects on the brain, with lots of help from the NIH.
Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, News, Research
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UNC researchers are leading the way in trying to find more effective asthma treatments.
Asthma, Grants, Immunology, News, Research, Studies
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High school senior Sam Deacon is thriving after overcoming a rare and life-threatening heart condition.
Cardiology, Children, Heart Failure, Pediatric Medicine, UNC Stories
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David Cumbie was a premature baby who couldn’t breathe or make noises on his own. Now, he’s a thriving first-grader who is talking—a lot!
Children, Patient Care, Pediatric Medicine, UNC Stories
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A unique residential treatment program gave Katelin Hunter a chance to overcome loss, incarceration and substance abuse.
Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation, Families, North Carolina, Substance Abuse, UNC Stories
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Mothers struggling with drug addiction and their children find help through the UNC Horizons Program.
Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation, Families, North Carolina, Substance Abuse, UNC Stories
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