Category: Clinical Trials

UNC Health patient advocate Missy Van Lokeren with her family

February 5, 2024

Cancer Patients Donate Tissue to Help Find New Treatments

UNC researchers are partnering with patient advocates on an innovative program.

Breast Cancer, Cancer, Clinical Trials, Patient Stories

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medical illustration of a brain with a red tumor inside the brain

January 24, 2024

How Medical Advances Are Improving Glioblastoma Care

Researchers are working to give people more time after a brain tumor diagnosis.

Brain Cancer, Cancer, Clinical Trials

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Close-upof pipette placing experimental vaccine intomicroplate

March 24, 2021

The Tale of mRNA

The vaccines were built on a decade of mRNA vaccine research.

Clinical Trials, Vaccines

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illustration of vaccine element at cellular level

August 10, 2020

How to Participate in a COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial

A phase III clinical trial for the vaccine produced by Moderna is seeking 30,000 participants across the country.

Clinical Trials, Infectious Diseases, Vaccines

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illustration of test tubes lined up in a formation, akin to superhero pose

July 28, 2020

From Lab to Bedside: How Clinical Trials Work

Here’s how clinical trials help advance our understanding of medicine.

Clinical Trials, Coronavirus

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A photograph of Sam Hollamon outside of the entrance to the UNC Children's Cochlear Implant Center.

July 24, 2019

A Mother’s Quest to Help Her Son Hear 

A cochlear implant helps a child with single-sided deafness. 

Clinical Trials, Ear, Nose, and Throat Health, Health, Hearing, Patient Stories, UNC Children's

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Drs. Jon Serody

March 25, 2015

New UNC Lineberger faculty recruited to launch T-cell cancer therap...

Two new faculty members have joined the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center to help launch groundbreaking immunotherapy clinical trials that will test an experimental treatment in which patients’ own immune cells are genetically engineered to fight their cancer.

Cancer, Clinical Trials, Genetics

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UNC Chapel

August 13, 2014

War vet receives his hearing back

Dr. Oliver Adunka, an ENT surgeon at UNC Health Care, was able to get Dac Carpenter into a clinical trial that installed a sound bridge in one ear. That allows Dac to hear just like he did before he was injured.

Clinical Trials, Devices, Hearing, Patient Stories

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UNC Chapel

July 17, 2012

Milk thistle, taken by many people for liver disease, ineffective a...

Silymarin or “milk thistle,” a popular herbal dietary supplement that many people take for liver ailments, works no better than placebo in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection.

Chronic Illness, Clinical Trials, Hepatitis C, Hepatology, Nutrition, Treatment, Wellness

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PAP (red) is found in neurons that sense pain-producing stimuli. Credit: Zylka lab

April 23, 2012

Pain relief with PAP injections may last 100 times longer than a tr...

UNC researchers describe how exploiting the molecular mechanism behind acupuncture resulted in six-day pain relief in animal models. They call this new therapeutic approach PAPupuncture.

Clinical Trials, Innovation, Pain Management, Research, Treatment

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