Dr. Richard C. Boucher received the first-ever “Champion for a Cure” award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of North Carolina Monday (Oct. 15).

Dr. Herbert B. Peterson, professor and chair in the department of maternal and child health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health and professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the UNC … Read more

Eleni Tzima, Ph.D., assistant professor of cell and molecular physiology in the UNC School of Medicine, has been named a 2007 Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar. The award provides $200,000 over four years in support of research on the role … Read more

UNC has received a $5.6 million grant to establish the UNC Center for Genomics and Society. This research center will study the most critical ethical, legal and social questions faced by researchers and the public involved in genetic and genomic … Read more

The National Institute of Child Health and Development has awarded $1.97 million to the The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine over the next five years to increase and improve the application of social sciences to the … Read more

Dr. Stephan Moll has received a $1.25 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a research database for studies of blood clot disorders and to create patient support groups for people with blood clots and … Read more

Only one drug is currently approved to treat sickle cell disease, but a small study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine suggests that an intravenous blood thinner, widely used in patients with acute heart … Read more

Faculty and students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are setting out to discover whether applying business principles to public health problems can result in solutions that will save lives in developing countries with limited access to … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been selected as a study center in the National Children’s Study, according to a National Institutes of Health announcement today, (Oct. 4, 2007).

Adding ultrasound to mammography finds more cancers than mammography alone, but also substantially increases the number of false positives, according to first-year results from a three-year study of the two tests.