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NC TraCS Researcher Offers Perspective in NEJM

27 May 2010

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,...

Older Women May Not Need Bone Density Screening as Often

27 May 2010

NC TraCS member Margaret Gourlay, M.D., is lead author of the study, which is published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and other organizations have recommended that women ages...

UNC Study Could Lead to a Treatment for Angelman Syndrome

27 May 2010

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 ...

A Virtual Lab Tackles a Real Health Problem

27 May 2010

Question: When is a lab, not really a lab? Answer: When it is the Scientific Collaborative for Overweight and Obesity Prevention Treatment, aka the SCOOPT lab. You won’t find microscopes, test tubes or mice here, but the rest...

Effort Improves Outcomes for Liver Transplants

27 May 2010

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,...

Improving Stroke Survivors' Ability to Walk

27 May 2010

An NC TraCS $10K pilot grant, awarded to Michael Lewek, PT, Ph.D., has now led to a $400K NIH R21 grant to continue work studying ways to help stroke survivors’ improve their ability to walk. Lewek is an assistant professor...

More Educated Patients Less Likely to Receive Pain Meds

27 May 2010

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...

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Project Update: Work to Eradicate HIV Continues

27 May 2010

Several developments are worth noting from the $32 million, five-year federal grant led by UNC professor David Margolis, M.D., to cure HIV by purging the virus hiding in the immune systems of patients on antiretroviral therapy...