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| Nov 8, 2025 | Many fear federal loan caps will deter aspiring doctors and worsen MD shortage | Bernard J. Wolfson, KFF Health News
Medical educators and health professionals warn that new federal student loan caps in President Donald Trump’s tax cut law could make it more expensive for many people to become doctors and could exacerba... |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Choroideremia Research Foundation Awards Alice Y. Zhang, MD, the 6th Annual Randy Wheelock Research Award | Neal Bench, CRF President, awarding Alice Zhang, MD and colleagues the 2025 Randy Wheelock Award at UNC-Chapel Hill.
CRF honors Dr. Alice Y. Zhang with the 6th Annual Randy Wheelock Research Award for advancing patient-focused outcomes in c... |
| Apr 3, 2025 | AIBODY and North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center Partner to Transform Burn Education with Simulation Technology | Lori Chrisco, MSN, NI-BC, CBRN
Derek Miller, MSN, RN, CBRN, CCRN
Dr. Booker King, MD, FACS, FABA
Innovative physiology platform allows clinicians to create interactive learning experiences, enhancing burn care training and improving patient... |
| Jul 12, 2024 | Improving Global Lung Health Through a Transcontinental Collaboration | Shannon Carson, MD, chief of the UNC Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, and Brad Drummond, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine, are spearheading efforts to elevate global pulmonary research capacity through the America... |
| May 30, 2024 | Dr. Fernando Diaz Focuses on Health Disparities Among Spanish-speaking Cancer Patients | Fernando Diaz, MD
While working in a primary care setting during his medical residency, Dr. Fernando Diaz observed a striking disparity. He was seeing many older patients with advanced-stage cancer diagnoses. And many of them were Spanish-s... |
| May 14, 2024 | Health | New device could identify which babies will struggle with breastfeeding | When tongue-tie is thought to create breastfeeding difficulties, doctors can conduct a minor surgery called a frenotomy to snip the tissue and increase range of motion, though there has recently been some debate in pediatric medicine that t... |
| May 13, 2024 | La Roche-Posay and the Women's Dermatologic Society in Partnership with Howard University Announce Second-Annual Diversity in Dermatology Fellow | NEW YORK, May 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second annual year, La Roche-Posay, the Women's Dermatologic Society (WDS) and Department of Dermatology at Howard University are pleased to announce the selection of the 2023 deserving Diversi... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Assault On Reproductive Rights Cause Female Health Providers To Start Providing Vasectomy | Dr Matthew Zerden Medical Director of His Choice Vasectomy Durham
The recent erosion of reproductive rights across the United States is increasing the demand for vasectomy and causing female health care doctors to add vasectomy to the servi... |
| Feb 20, 2024 | Health | Inside the plan to diagnose Alzheimer’s in people with no memory problems — and who stands to benefit | Melody Petersen | Los Angeles Times (TNS)
In a darkened Amsterdam conference hall this summer, a panel of industry and academic scientists took the stage to announce a plan to radically expand the definition of Alzheimer’s disease to includ... |
| Jan 5, 2023 | 4 reasons stress can cause weight loss and expert-approved tips to help keep your stressors in check | Reviews Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.
Health 4 reasons stress can cause weight loss and expert-approved tips to help keep your stressors in check
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| Sep 20, 2022 | University Of North Carolina Receives $25 Million Gift To Establish Suicide Prevention Institute | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will use a $25 million gift commitment to create an ... [+] institute devoted to the study and prevention of suicide. getty |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Homeless and incarcerated people in Minnesota struggled to access Covid vaccines | Homeless and incarcerated people had significantly lower Covid vaccination rates than others in Minnesota, according to a new study. Its authors say the findings highlight lingering inequities, even in a state that has prioritized vaccinati... |
| Apr 12, 2022 | ThermaMEDx’s EverTears Reviewed by Clinical Professor at UNC School of Medicine | One of the nation's leading eye professors has reviewed an industry leader in providing effective treatment for dry eyes and meibomian gland dysfunction.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, UNITED STATES, April 12, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Representatives ... |
| May 20, 2021 | Non-English speakers get poorer pain management after C-sections – even though they’re in no less pain than women who speak English | Non-native-English-speaking, Black, and Hispanic moms receive poor pain management post-C-section.
The study follows other research showing racial disparities in pain assessment and treatment.
Systemic racism and physician bias play a role.... |
| May 14, 2021 | 10 signs your period is coming — plus, tips on how to ease PMS | Reviews Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.
Health 10 signs your period is coming — plus, tips on how to ease PMS
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| May 14, 2021 | 10 signs your period is coming – plus, tips on how to ease PMS | Fatigue is a more common period symptom if you experience heavy bleeding. Peter Dazeley/Getty Images
Common period symptoms include cramping, bloating, fatigue, and headaches.
Period symptoms appear a week or two before you start menstruati... |
| Apr 12, 2021 | MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Microsoft : New tools and advocacy support Black pregnant and postpartum mothers to save lives | 'It's building a community,' Rupinder Legha, a psychiatrist committed to antiracism in mental health care, says of Believe Her. 'It's strength in numbers. It's promoting healing. It's reversing gaslighting. It's buffering against structural... |
| Jan 27, 2021 | Synthetic Biology Partners With AI To Delete Food Allergies | Millions of people globally suffer from food allergies or related diseases like celiac. But a new ... [+] method from Israeli startup Ukko aims to create hypoallergenic gluten and peanut proteins. These proteins could eventually create brea... |
| Jan 12, 2021 | How to know if you're nearsighted or farsighted and the best ways to treat it | Reviews Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.
Health How to know if you're nearsighted or farsighted and the best ways to treat it
Written by Madeline Kennedy; edited by Sa... |
| May 6, 2020 | Have I been cleaning all wrong? Here’s what experts have to say | BUSINESS WIRE VIA AP
The American Cleaning Institute reminds consumers to use disinfectants as directed and never in or on your skin. So what’s the right way to clean? We talked to infectious disease scientists and microbiologists who study... |
| Apr 2, 2020 | 9 ways that stress messes with your body — and what you can do about it | Joe Raedle/GettyImages
Stress isn't just something that happens in your head - the effects reach almost every part of your body.
In simple terms, stress is the way your body responds to potential dangers. When your brain notices a threat, i... |
| Jan 22, 2019 | Verily’s wearable smartwatch EKG feature gets FDA nod | Verily launched the Study Watch in 2017 and has tested it in research efforts like Project Baseline and the University of North Carolina’s AURORA Study which is meant to better understand the recovery process for those who have undergone a ... |
| Jul 24, 2017 | Atomico leads $8 million investment in Hinge Health to tackle back pain and other chronic injuries | Hinge Health, a fledgling digital health startup that’s building hardware and software to tackle musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders, has raised $8 million in a Series A round of funding led by European VC giant Atomico, with participation from... |
| Jul 24, 2017 | Atomico leads $8 million investment in Hinge Health to tackle back pain and other chronic injuries | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Hinge Health, a fledgling digital health startup that’s building hardware and software to tackle musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders, has r... |
| Aug 1, 2016 | Pfizer boosts its gene therapy work, bags upstart Bamboo in $645M buyout deal | Bamboo Therapeutics and its nascent gene therapy pipeline is being bought out by Pfizer, just five months after the biotech raised close to $50 million. The pharma giant, already a minority investor in Bamboo, is paying $... |
| Jul 20, 2016 | Surgeons struggle to discuss adverse events with patients | “The patient was disgusted,” Gallagher recalled about the event that occurred before he came to Washington. “His family was furious … that after all the patient had gone through to get this test … we still couldn’t even figure out something... |
| Feb 23, 2016 | ‘Snitch rule’ requires college athletes to report teammates with concussions | More than a dozen high-profile college sports programs require football players and other athletes to report teammates they suspect have sustained a concussion, a mandate that could boost detection of head injuries but that some deride as a... |
| Feb 11, 2016 | UNC gene therapy spinout Bamboo Therapeutics raises $49.5M Series A | The startup’s developing gene therapies for rare neurologic diseases, which include Giant axonal neuropathy (GAN), Canavan disease, Friedreich’s ataxia as well as Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Bamboo’s most advanced program is its therapeuti... |
| Feb 13, 2015 | UNC spinout looking to one-up Kalydeco with one-size-fits-all cystic fibrosis therapy | Spyryx has more than $100,000, largely from angel investors, though it also has taken out a loan from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. Spyryx is aiming to raise a Series A round and also study the drug’s efficacy in COPD, though it’... |
| Aug 4, 2014 | Hunt for genetic source of anorexia pairs biotech initiative with mobile health startup | “Down the track, we’re talking about giving users opportunities to supplement their genotype data with phenotype data. We have built the biggest repository of eating disorder patients that exists.”
Although the study was originally restrict... |
| Sep 25, 2012 | A place for more Medicare coverage (the information kind) | But in the end, Mitchell said Medicare NewsGroup wants to be the go-to Medicare resource for everyone: from journalists to insiders to consumers. The dearth of reporting on the topic, Medicare’s complexity and the ascension of Medicare-focu... |
| Apr 12, 2012 | Personalized medicine: A long path, uncertain directions and distant goals | If personalized medicine’s promise isn’t easily understood, Dr. Kristin Newby can readily explain it through her clinical practice.
The cardiologist at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina routinely sees patients who... |
| Dec 6, 2011 | UNC gets $6.4M federal grant for genomics research | The grant will fund several projects. Whole exome sequencing, or WES, will be performed on 750 UNC patients who are believed to have a discrete genetic error as the cause of their disorder.
Evans said in a statement that in addition to stud... |
| Sep 2, 2011 | Cancer-detection company Oncoscope closes on $2M fundraise | Oncoscope is currently conducting a clinical trial sponsored by an SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health. One of the clinical sites in the multi-center study is the Center for Esophageal Diseases & Swallowing at the Universi... |
| Jul 21, 2011 | Optical imaging startup Oncoscope raises $900K in $2M round | Oncoscope’s optical imaging technology was originally developed at Duke University. The initial Duke research was supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation and the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.
Fou... |
| Jun 9, 2011 | N.C. startup activity gets boost from Carolina KickStart | “This is sort of a dating game; get to know people,” Rose said. “They may get involved in some way. You don’t want to get married. You just want to get to know each other.”
But these are meetings with purpose and at some point down the line... |
| Mar 13, 2011 | Mobile health IT startup could help autism treatments, education | Founder John Eder is now in talks with potential investors and partners that could help the company grow in the United States and beyond.
“The thing that gets me excited is building something that can be used all around the world,” Eder sai... |
| Feb 10, 2011 | UNC spinout raises $300K to build a better antibiotic | Promoted
This Patient Experience Checklist Is Your Key To Success in 2021
As healthcare systems strive to recover from losses due to the pandemic, patient acquisition and retention have never been more urgent, and patient experience has nev... |
| Feb 4, 2011 | UNC-Chapel Hill researchers awarded $3.6M for pediatric airway study | A National Institutes of Health grant will allow the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to move forward on development of computer models that will allow doctors to study how to treat children with upper respiratory problems.
The $... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | U. of North Carolina gets $13.6M to continue cancer/nanotech study | DeSimone and Dr. Joel Tepper will lead 52 faculty, postdoctoral trainee, student and staff researchers on the grant. DeSimone is Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. Tepper is the Hector MacLean... |
| U. of North Carolina gets $13.6M to continue cancer/nanotech study | The University of North Carolina’s (UNC) Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence has been granted $13.6 million by the National Cancer Institute for research to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer through advances in n... |
| Cancer-detection company Oncoscope closes on $2M fundraise | Cancer-detection medical device company Oncoscope has closed on $2 million in financing, according to securities filings.
Durham, North Carolina-based Oncoscope is developing an optical imaging system that can be used for early detection of... |
| Harvard gut doctor: These 8 foods will make you feel bloated—here’s what to eat instead | About one in 10 people experience post-meal bloating, typically in the form of gassiness or uncomfortable feelings of fullness in the abdomen.
As a gastroenterologist and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, I’m often ... |
| Hunt for genetic source of anorexia pairs biotech initiative with mobile health startup | The research for a genetic cause behind anorexia nervosa has been underway for several years. But the challenge has been in engaging a patient population that has been difficult to reach for many reasons. Yet mobile health startup Recovery ... |
| UNC-Chapel Hill researchers awarded $3.6M for pediatric airway study | A National Institutes of Health grant will allow the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to move forward on development of computer models that will allow doctors to study how to treat children with upper respiratory problems.
The $... |
| Mobile health IT startup could help autism treatments, education | Autistic children for years have been presented images on paper, a visual schedule that gives them the order and structure that they seek.
Paper schedules don’t work for all autistic children. But even when they do work, they’re still just ... |
| Optical imaging startup Oncoscope raises $900K in $2M round | Medical device firm Oncoscope, which is developing an optical imaging system with applications in cancer, is closing in on $1 million in its latest fundraising offering, according to securities filings.
Durham, North Carolina-based Oncoscop... |
| N.C. startup activity gets boost from Carolina KickStart | If you want to feel the pulse of startup activity in North Carolina’s Research Triangle, consider visiting the Cafe Carolina in Chapel Hill. Many scientific discoveries start with chemistry. But here, companies start with coffee.
On most mo... |
| UNC spinout looking to one-up Kalydeco with one-size-fits-all cystic fibrosis therapy | Cystic fibrosis has become the poster child for precision medicine – most new therapies are carefully tailored to a CF patient’s genetic makeup. University of North Carolina spinout Spyryx Biosciences is proposing a one-size-fits-all approa... |
| UNC gene therapy spinout Bamboo Therapeutics raises $49.5M Series A | North Carolina gene therapy startup Bamboo Therapeutics has raised a stunning $49.5 million, according to an SEC filing. The startup is focused on advancing the work of Dr. Richard Jude Samulski, director of the gene therapy center at the U... |
| Verily’s wearable smartwatch EKG feature gets FDA nod | Verily, the life science arm of Google parent company Alphabet, has received an FDA clearance for its Study Watch’s on-demand EKGs feature, according to a company blog post.
The prescription-only device has the ability to record, store, tra... |
| A place for more Medicare coverage (the information kind) | Medicare reimbursement can make or break a healthcare business. A place to keep a closer eye on the way the Medicare winds are blowing is MedicareNewsGroup.com.
The independent news site – based just outside Chicago, Illinois – started draw... |
| Surgeons struggle to discuss adverse events with patients | Dr. Thomas Gallagher has been through many tough conversations with patients. He remembers once standing in front of a patient and the patient’s family, preparing to tell them about a mistake that had occurred.
“This is a topic I think abou... |
| Police brutality must stop | By AMA President, Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA and Board Chair, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH
AMA policy recognizes that physical or verbal violence between law enforcement officers and the public, particularly among Black and Brown communities ... |
| Personalized medicine: A long path, uncertain directions and distant goals | If personalized medicine’s promise isn’t easily understood, Dr. Kristin Newby can readily explain it through her clinical practice.
The cardiologist at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina routinely sees patients who... |
