7 Strategies for Quitting Smoking
It’s the most important thing you can do for your health, and you’ll need a plan to be successful.
Smoking Cessation
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Lung Disease: What You Need to Know to Breathe Easy
Your essential guide to symptoms, risk and prevention.
Lung Cancer, Pulmonology, Sleep, Tobacco
How to Create a Sleep-Friendly Bedroom
Trouble getting enough sleep, or quality sleep? Your environment may be to blame, but you can make easy fixes to get some rest.
Sleep
What You Need to Know About the ‘Fourth Trimester’ Afte...
You had the baby—way to go! Here’s some advice for dealing with the many changes to your body, emotions and daily life.
Fourth Trimester, Postpartum Depression, Women's Health
Beyond the Helmet: Protecting the Brain of Your Athlete
Here’s what to know about protecting your child’s brain, face and teeth from injury.
Children's Health, Sports Medicine
Meet Your Cancer Care Team
From oncologists to financial navigators, you have a group of experts ready to support you.
Cancer, Oncology, Physicians
3 Habits for Healthy Lungs
If you want to avoid lung cancer, COPD and other lung diseases, here’s where to start.
Pulmonology, Smoking Cessation, Tobacco
Should I Get Tested for the Cancer Gene?
Hereditary risks can be tested, giving you information and power to protect yourself—if you decide you want to know
Cancer, Genetics
I Found a Lump in My Breast. What Should I Do?
A breast lump can be caused by many things other than cancer, so don’t panic—just take these steps.
Breast Cancer, Breast Health, Women's Health
What Are Allergies and Why Do They Make You Feel So Bad?
Turns out it might be a big misunderstanding of your immune system.
Allergies
Thanks to a UNC research project, she can walk again
As UNC geneticist Jonathan Berg gears up to lead a $9.7-million renewal of the NCGENES project, we look at a story from the original study and how it changed the fortunes of a woman from Goldsboro, NC.
Gene Therapy, Genetics, Genome, News, Patient Stories, Research
The Best Hummus, from Our Kardia Cafe Chefs
Hummus. So healthy, so delicious. That's why it's a highlight of UNC REX Heart & Vascular's Kardia Cafe, where our award-winning chefs have free reign to pursue their vision of "a hotel style food experience within the walls of a hospital," to use the words of UNC REX's Culinary and Nutrition Direc
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