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There’s no quick fix for health care problems | As the presidential election nears, and the democratic primary hits full speed, health care – its growing costs and looming problems – weighs on the minds of voters. Jonathan Oberlander, Ph.D., associate professor of Social Medicine in UNC’s School of Medicine and associate professor of health policy and administration in the School of Public Health, breaks down the candidates’ health care plans and explains how health care affects our economy. |
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Oliver Smithies, UNC-Chapel Hill
The Triangle Business Journal
Kumar Pandya, a research associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, remembers the first time he visited Oliver Smithies' lab. ..."Smithies' work has transformed medical research," says Terry Magnuson, chair of the Department of Genetics at UNC. After embryonic stem cells were discovered in 1981, Magnuson says, Smithies figured out how to target cells of interest and manipulate embryonic stem cells to breed mice that are missing a certain gene. | |
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 | May Be the Key to Cancer Prevention
Health Day News
Imagine therapies that could cut cancer deaths in half. Well, these "breakthrough" treatments are here, according to a recent American Cancer Society report that said as many as 50 percent of cancer deaths could be prevented with lifestyle changes, such as quitting smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, and getting screened for certain malignancies. ...Dr. Neil Hayes, a medical oncologist specializing in lung and head and neck cancers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, concurred. "Most of my patients are smokers, so it's rare I see someone truly surprised by the diagnosis. But I don't think they fully think through the risk associated with smoking," he said. |
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