Over the past five years, the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospitals has admitted more than 35 patients with fireworks-related injuries and treated more than 100 in its clinics. Injuries have ranged from a small finger burn to extensive … Read more

Tick-borne illnesses, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and others, pose a special health threat to children, particularly during the peak tick-activity months of June and July, said Marcia E. Herman-Giddens, child and family health consultant and adjunct professor … Read more

In response to the need for primary care services in rural North Carolina, a new school-based and nurse-managed health center will open this week at an Alamance County elementary school to serve the school and surrounding community.

Through a new partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, the early childhood education department at Vance-Granville Community College is offering a cutting-edge program for the next generation of teachers.

Barbara K. Rimer, dean of The University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, received the American Cancer Society’s Medal of Honor for outstanding contributions to fighting cancer.

In a study using mice, researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine found that a hormone, adrenomedullin, plays a crucial role in preventing the pregnancy complication preeclampsia. Surprisingly, this hormone protects women from preeclampsia when emitted by … Read more

University of North Carolina researchers have discovered that disrupting a gene that acts as a regulatory switch to turn on other genes can keep blood vessels from forming and developing properly.

Kerry Steven Bloom, Thad L. Beyle Distinguished Professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies … Read more

Holden Thorp, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named chair of a new National Research Council committee tasked with establishing and promoting a culture of safety in academic laboratory research.

Parents may plead, cajole or entice their children to try new foods, but some kids just won’t budge. Now, new research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals that the reason these kids fear new foods has … Read more