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HIPAA turns 20

19 August 2016

HIPAA turns 20: It opened the door to better doctor-patient communication Twenty years ago Sunday, President Bill Clinton signed legislation that profoundly changed health care in the United States: the Health Insurance Portability...

Scientist’s drive for a cancer cure inspired by the father he doesn’t remember

16 August 2016

Zhen Gu at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. Justin Cook for STAT RALEIGH, N.C. — Last summer, a young, unheralded scientist named Zhen Gu unveiled a “smart” insulin patch, yet another in a string of biomedical...

CTSI replaces the Duke Translational Medicine Institute (DTMI)

19 August 2016

Duke University has launched the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) aimed at bringing breakthrough treatments to patients faster. University researchers make medical and pharmaceutical breakthroughs,...

New Service to Support Data-Driven, Inter-Institutional Research and Quality Improvement

16 August 2016

The Carolinas Collaborative, which aims to support data-driven, inter-institutional clinical research and QI, is now open for business. Through Carolinas Collaborative, researchers can request patient counts or sets...

Researchers build a better opioid painkiller from scratch

18 August 2016

CHAPEL HILL, NC – An international research team – led by scientists at UC San Francisco, Stanford University, the University of North Carolina (UNC), and the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany –...

Gary L. Bowen named dean of UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work

15 August 2016

(Chapel Hill, N.C. – Aug. 11, 2016) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill today announced that Gary L. Bowen has been selected as the new dean for the School of Social Work. He is currently Kenan Distinguished...

Survey shows broad support for national precision medicine study

17 August 2016

Today, the NIH PMI Cohort Program announced results from a recent survey designed to measure public attitudes about the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program. A majority of respondents were willing to participate...

UNC researchers home in on promising treatment for peanut allergy

15 August 2016

Illustration by Christ-Claude Mowandza-Ndinga/UNC Health Care CHAPEL HILL, NC – Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine found that nearly 80 percent of peanut-allergic preschool children were successfully treated with...

Survey results released for Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program

17 August 2016

Medicine's Mentors: Kenya McNeal-Trice, MD

11 August 2016

In UNC Health Care's new video series, Medicine’s Mentors, professionals and medical students share stories of those who helped shape them and discuss what makes mentorship at UNC Health Care unique. Here, Kenya McNeal-Trice,...