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Building A Better System

05 September 2012

When it comes to preventing and treating chronic illness, there are a lot of variables in play. There are, of course, genetics, environment, lifestyle and medications. Then there is the health care system. How patients gain...

All Fired Up

08 August 2012

Your brain is composed of billions of tiny elements, each communicating with the other through a series of electrical impulses. The aggregate of all these electrical signals makes you who you are – enabling you to use your...

Pergolotti Receives Grant to Study OT Utilization by Patients with Cancer

05 September 2012

Mackenzi Pergolotti, a fourth-year Occupational Science PhD candidate, received a $2,000 NC TraCS grant to help her research the utilization of occupational therapy by older patients with cancer by using data from the Integrative...

UNC Rises in Research Ranking

08 August 2012

Students and faculty will have more opportunities to complete research projects and make breakthroughs, thanks to UNC’s new research ranking among public and private universities. UNC rose from 16th to ninth place overall for...

Genes guide medication decisions, potential treatment

05 September 2012

The first fruits of genomic medicine are being enjoyed by North Carolina patients on a common anti-clotting drug but soon could include many other drugs and one day people facing radiation or with a difficult-to-treat form...

Milk Thistle, Taken by Many People for Liver Disease, Ineffective as Treatment for Hepatitis C

08 August 2012

Silymarin or “milk thistle,” a popular herbal dietary supplement that many people take for liver ailments, works no better than placebo in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection. That’s the conclusion of a multicenter...

Researchers Reveal Evolution’s Design for Keeping Lungs Clean and Healthy

28 August 2012

With each breath, we inhale life-sustaining, oxygen-rich air. But that same air is also riddled with germs that threaten our health. Now, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveal evolution’s design...

Kudos to Diane Berry, Ph.D.

30 July 2012

Diane Berry, Ph.D., an associate professor of nursing at UNC-Chapel Hill, recently used preliminary data from an NC TraCS 50K pilot award to land an R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health. She and her colleagues will...

NC TraCS $2K Pilot Program Forty-Second Round Awardees

21 August 2012

The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees of TraCS $2K small grants for clinical and translational research projects. 7 applications were received and 4 (listed below) were chosen for funding, from the UNC-CH School...

NC TraCS $2K Pilot Program 41st Round Awardees

30 July 2012

The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees of TraCS $2K small grants for clinical and translational research projects. 8 applications were received and 3 (listed below) were chosen for funding, from the UNC-CH Schools...