Category: News
3 Tips for Finding Reliable News Sources
Learn how to look for trusted information about Coronavirus/COVID-19.
Zantac Pulled Off Shelves: What You Need to Know
Here’s what to do now that Zantac was removed from local pharmacies.
UNC’s Bowles Alcohol Research Center Can Keep Doing Good Work
The NIH renewed funding for UNC's Bowles Alcohol Research Center for another five years.
The Four-Legged Volunteer
As part of the Tar Heal Paws program, Sadie and her owner Jamie Lynn Russell volunteer their time to bring fur therapy to patients and families at UNC Medical Center and other UNC Health Care facilities. Sadie is one of fourteen canine volunteers to be featured in the first series of Tar Heal Paws.
Faulty Cell Signaling Derails Cerebral Cortex Development, Could It...
UNC School of Medicine researchers pinpoint signaling problems in the progenitor cells crucial for proper neuron generation and organization.
UNC launches new study to uncover nutritional impacts on early brai...
Researchers are using state-of-the-art imaging techniques and collecting data on dietary nutrient intake, feeding practices, and gut microbiota abundance and diversity to elucidate the links between nutrition, the microbiome, and brain maturation processes in early childhood.
Children's Health, Collaboration, Gastroenterology, News, Nutrition, Studies
UNC lung researchers awarded $12.5-million NIH grant to develop new...
The National Institutes of Health has awarded four UNC experts a translational program project grant (tPPG) to develop and test therapeutics aimed at reducing the hyper-concentration of mucus often found in cystic fibrosis and asthma patients.
Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, Grants, Innovation, News, Pulmonology
Aggressive breast cancers may contribute to racial survival dispari...
UNC Lineberger researchers led by Melissa Troester, PhD, published results of an analysis of approximately 1,000 invasive breast tumors. The study confirmed that young black women are more likely to have "triple negative," or "basal-like," breast cancer.
Breast Cancer, Cancer, News, Social Justice, Studies, Women's Health