The Genome on Drugs Howard McLeod, PharmD, likes to have fun, though his definition of “fun” might not be what you’d expect. True, he enjoys playing sports with his kids and jamming on his electric guitar. But he also loves...

Focusing the Lens on Medicine Few people can say they have turned their favorite childhood hobby into a career. But Weili Lin, Ph.D., still spends his days taking pictures, just as he did as a kid. Only now the images he captures...

A Nano-sized Delivery System Carries a Lethal Payload In the war on cancer, it is not enough to have the most potent weapon in your arsenal. You must be able to deliver it – on target and with lethal efficiency. You need the...

NC TraCS Researcher Offers Perspective in New England Journal of Medicine Level IV Evidence — Adverse Anecdote and Clinical Practice Evidence-based medicine has become a popular phrase in health care over the last few years,...

New Initiatives to Aid Clinical Trial Recruitment Volunteer participants are vital to the clinical research process, as everyone knows. Lack of enrollment is a leading reason for study delays or failure altogether. To that...

Results of a new study funded in part by the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute may help pave the way to a treatment for a neurogenetic disorder often misdiagnosed as cerebral palsy or ...

Many people believe in separating their work from their personal lives, but for Tamera Coyne-Beasley, M.D., M.P.H., the two are hopelessly intertwined -- at least for the moment. Coyne-Beasley, an expert in adolescent health,...

Nationally there are 17,000 people on the waiting list for a liver transplant. Yet according to A. Sidney Barritt, IV, M.D., M.S.C.R., surgeons are able to perform only about 6,000 transplants annually. And, unfortunately,...

690 Pages Closer to a Cure for HIV By now you’ve probably heard about the $32 million, five-year federal grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health to researchers at the University of North Carolina to develop a cure...

UNC researchers have found that the higher the education level of patients treated in emergency departments (ED) following motor vehicle accidents, the less likely they were to receive an opioid pain medication. In these surprising...