Depression and anxiety during and after a pregnancy is the most common complication associated with having a child. Up to one in five women experience these issues during what’s known as the perinatal period. Talk therapy is a proven and … Read more
Christina Cruz, who developed a program to enable teachers in rural areas to recognize and respond therapeutically to children with mental illness, was elected as the recipient of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Junior Investigator Award and … Read more
The Lilongwe Medical Relief Fund Trust announced that it has won a Grand Challenges Explorations grant – an initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Principal investigator Tisungane Mvalo, research assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of … Read more
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine’s William A. Fischer II and David A. Wohl are part of an international group of authors who have contributed to a recent Perspective piece published in the New England Journal of … Read more
Chinese gay men who were offered a free screening for gonorrhea and chlamydia and then asked to donate to the testing of another man were 48 percent more likely to get tested than men who were offered the standard of … Read more
In July, hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) was performed at UNC Medical Center for the first time. Mirriam Munthali scrubbed in and participated in parts of the procedure. That might have been her most memorable experience during her 10-week summer rotation … Read more
UNC researcher Charles Carter, Ph.D., and Peter Wills, Ph.D., from the University of Aukland, show how genes were first translated into proteins to offer insight into a long-time scientific mystery. All living things use the genetic code to “translate” DNA-based … Read more
Dr. Jonathan Juliano, associate professor of medicine from the division of infectious diseases is one of three researchers who have received the third annual Yang Family Biomedical Scholar Award. The award was made possible through donations from Yuanqing Yang, chair … Read more
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library has appointed Megan Fratta as the Community Outreach and Global Health Librarian, effective June 4, 2018. “Megan’s integration into the HSL team promotes the library’s mission of extending our … Read more
In a new study published today in Nature Genetics, researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine show that genetics point towards certain cell types being much more implicated in schizophrenia than other cell types.
