Your Burning Chest: How to Stop Acid Reflux and GERD
Learn what causes your stomach acid to bubble up into your esophagus—and what to do about it.
GERD and Acid Reflux
Blog
Six Ways to Help Your Child Cope with Anxiety
What parents should (and shouldn’t) do when a child struggles with worry and fear.
Children's Health, Mental Health, Psychiatry
Minimizing Heart Disease Risk in North Carolina
A UNC research initiative is helping providers improve the heart health of their patients and communities.
Community, Epidemiology, Heart and Vascular Health, North Carolina, Patient Stories
Help for Providers Who Are Struggling with Burnout
UNC is prioritizing physician wellness and encouraging doctors to take care of themselves, too.
Physicians, Wellness
How Exercise Can Prevent Falls
The Otago program’s at-home exercises build strength, balance and a better life for seniors.
Injury Prevention, Older Adult Health
Worried About a Loved One Falling at Home?
Help keep your loved ones safe by thinking about fall prevention.
Geriatrics, Senior Health
People Having a Stroke Now Have More Options for Treatment
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.
Physicians, Stroke
How Over-the-Counter Sleep Aids Can Hurt Your Brain
Even if a drug is sold as “non-habit-forming,” it could cause symptoms such as confusion and memory loss.
Brain Health, Sleep
Relief from Prostate Enlargement, Without Surgery
UNC Health Care is a leader in prostatic artery embolization (PAE), an outpatient procedure to help men with enlarged prostate.
Men's Health, Prostate Health, Urology
Four Ways Cardiac Rehab Improves Your Life if You Have Heart Disease
Participating in cardiac rehab is associated with a 50 percent drop in death rates.
Heart and Vascular Health
New Wearable Device Uses Electric Fields to Treat Glioblastomas
Optune device can prolong GBM life expectancy for an average of three months
Brain Cancer, Brain Health, Cancer, Physicians
Learning to Live as a Young Mother, After Drugs
A unique residential treatment program gave Katelin Hunter a chance to overcome loss, incarceration and substance abuse.
Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation, Families, North Carolina, Patient Stories, Substance Abuse