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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services lifts ‘immediate jeopardy’ finding against UNC Hospitals

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – On Friday, Oct. 1, the N.C. Division of Facility Services completed a two-day inspection of the patient care units in the N.C. Children’s Hospital.

Former UNC Medical School Dean Elected to BCBSNC Board

Chapel Hill, N.C. – Jeffrey L. Houpt, MD, dean of the University of North Carolina’s School of Medicine for 7 years and founding CEO of the UNC Health System, has been elected to the Board of Trustees at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. Houpt resigned as dean last May, but remains at the medical school with responsibility for ethics and professional development, and health care policy development.

UNC, Emory, Aetna research partnership aimed at increasing colorectal cancer screening

CHAPEL HILL -- At least one-third of deaths from colorectal cancer could be prevented if people over age 50 were regularly screened for the disease, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported.

Study describes basic mechanism in cell growth control involving damaged DNA

CHAPEL HILL -- As interactions of cellular proteins increasingly take center stage in basic biomedical research, studies are revealing a complex molecular choreography with implications for human health and disease.

School of Medicine launches four-year curriculum in medical Spanish

CHAPEL HILL -- During the week beginning Oct. 18, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill medical students will work with community physicians as part of a new four-year curriculum in medical Spanish.

UNC researchers identify sticky protein in sickle cell red blood cells

CHAPEL HILL -- New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals why red blood cells from people with sickle cell disease are stickier than healthy red cells, pointing the way to potential new treatments for sickle cell disease.

Hobgood is named associate dean for curriculum, educational development in School of Medicine

Dr. Cherri D. Hobgood has been appointed associate dean for curriculum and educational development in UNC’s School of Medicine, effective Nov. 1.

Discovery might improve design, effectiveness of anti-cancer drugs

CHAPEL HILL — Working with an enzyme that degrades anti-cancer drugs in humans, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill biochemists and colleagues have made a discovery that they believe eventually could help improve such drugs’ design and effectiveness.

UNC-Duke study seeks to help couples alleviate stress created by breast cancer diagnosis

 

UNC’s chair of surgery awarded national honor for physician training

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been honored with a national award for his dedication to teaching physicians in training.

Five-year NIH grant awarded on mind-body interactions, health

CHAPEL HILL -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to foster interdisciplinary research on interactions between the mind and body in health and disease, with a specific focus on the causes and treatment of functional gastrointestinal disorders.

UNC Hospitals offers new approach for treatment of heart rhythm problem

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Peggy Blackmon knew something was wrong with her heart long before she went to see a doctor about it.

UNC Hospitals is one of first medical centers to use new device for treating life-threatening kidney problem

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The University of North Carolina Hospitals is one of only 10 medical centers worldwide so far that have used a new device approved in January for treating a life-threatening kidney problem.

School of Medicine to celebrate 125 years of medical education at Berryhill lecture, new faculty convocation

CHAPEL HILL -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine is observing the 125th anniversary of its founding this year, a distinction that will figure prominently in Thursday’s (Oct. 28) Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture.

Fruits, vegetables may decrease some women’s risk of specific type of breast cancer tumor, study finds

CHAPEL HILL -- A team of researchers led by epidemiologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that eating 35 or more servings of fruits and vegetables each week decreased postmenopausal women’s risk of a specific type of breast cancer tumor – estrogen-receptor positive – by 36 percent.