Rethinking Summer Break
Use summer vacation to shape your child’s long-term health.
Category: Families
Surviving the Unthinkable Together
Single Fathers Due to Cancer support group provides friendship and resources at life’s toughest time.
4 Things to Know About Psychosis in Teenagers
Adolescents can be moody, but some behavior changes are cause for concern.
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, Substance Abuse, UNC Stories
A Young Mother’s Journey to Recovery
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
How to Talk to Kids About Cancer
When a parent is diagnosed with cancer, children need honesty, compassion and support
What to Do When the Woman You Love Has Postpartum Depression
If your partner is suffering, there are steps you can take—and things you should avoid doing
Babies, Depression, Families, Maternal Health, Mental Health, Women's Health
Cigar warning labels are not equally believable among adolescents
Less than 50 percent of surveyed teens found it ‘very believable’ that cigars are not a safe alternative to cigarettes, according to a first-of-its-kind UNC School of Medicine study.
Repeated exposure of children to secondhand smoke is child abuse, G...
Dr. Adam Goldstein, who is director of the tobacco intervention programs in the UNC School of Medicine, argues his point in an opinion piece published in the March/April 2015 issue of Annals of Family Medicine.