http://news.unchealthcare.org daily 1 2010-05-17T14:39:01Z http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/may/collin-peterjohn-a-profound-opportunity-for-a-second-chance A 25-year-old Charlotte man gets a second chance at life with a profound recovery from serious lung injuries sustained in a fire that left his family homeless. No publisher tahughes Family House Diaries Surgery Video Mecklenburg County 2012-05-16T20:35:17Z News Item http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/may/sanders As the first two Sanders Clinician Scholars, Paul Chelminski, MD, MPH, and Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, will develop educational efforts to enhance supportive direct personal contact to the daily care of patients, and to teach others to do the same. No publisher vemoore Medicine Psychiatry Awards 2012-05-16T16:32:43Z News Item http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/may/sharpless The professorship was established by the School of Medicine in 1988 with gifts from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the William A. Smith Trust of Wadesboro, N.C. No publisher tahughes Genetics Cancer Lineberger 2012-05-15T19:32:47Z News Item http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/may/grant-to-fund-use-of-kinase-test-in-her2-positive-breast-cancer Susan G. Komen for the Cure® has awarded a grant of almost $900,000 to Lisa A. Carey, MD, and Gary Johnson, PhD, to research clinical applications for the first broad-based test for protein kinase activation and response to inhibitory drugs in HER2-positive breast cancer. No publisher tahughes Research Pharmacology Cancer Lineberger 2012-05-14T17:09:31Z News Item http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/may/dna-replication-protein-also-has-a-role-in-mitosis-cancer The finding presents a possible explanation for why so many cancers possess not just genomic instability, but also more or less than the usual 46 DNA-containing chromosomes. No publisher tahughes Research Cancer Biochemistry and Biophysics 2012-05-14T13:04:31Z News Item http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/may/molecular-subtypes-and-genetic-alterations-may-determine-response-to-lung-cancer-therapy A UNC-led team of scientists has shown for the first time that lung cancer molecular subtypes correlate with distinct genetic alterations and with patient response to therapy. No publisher tahughes Research Lineberger 2012-05-11T16:32:17Z News Item http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/may/new-study-shows-benefit-of-new-maintenance-therapy-for-multiple-myeloma Dr. Thomas Shea and Dr. Don Gabriel of UNC are co-authors of the study, which offers promising news about a new long-term therapy, lenalidomide, that can be used after transplantation to slow down the progression of the disease. No publisher tahughes 2012-05-11T16:05:48Z News Item http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/may/unc-bone-marrow-and-stem-cell-transplantation-program-achieves-outstanding-outcomes UNC Cancer Care’s Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation Program is one of only 14 out of 156 centers across the country to be rated an “overperforming” center. No publisher tahughes Transplant Cancer Lineberger 2012-05-11T13:56:58Z News Item http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/may/nutrition-research-institute-receives-grand-challenges-explorations-grant-for-global-health-research The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Nutrition Research Institute in Kannapolis is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. No publisher tahughes 2012-05-09T18:34:00Z News Item http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/may/real-doctors-real-people-eric-juengst Eric Juengst, PhD, directs the UNC Center for Bioethics. He also makes armor. Yep, the kind knights would wear while protecting their king's domain. No publisher tahughes Video CTSA real doctors, real people Social Medicine 2012-05-09T11:46:38Z News Item http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/may/stem-cells-poised-to-self-destruct-for-the-good-of-the-embryo Embryonic stem cells are primed to kill themselves if damage to their DNA makes them a threat to the developing embryo. UNC researchers reveal how they do it. No publisher tahughes Cell and Developmental Biology Research 2012-05-03T16:13:32Z News Item http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/may/unc-study-shows-potential-to-revive-abandoned-cancer-drug-by-nanoparticle-drug-delivery A team of UNC researchers developed nanoparticle carriers to successfully deliver therapeutic doses of a cancer drug that had previously failed clinical development due to pharmacologic challenges. No publisher tahughes Research Radiation Oncology Cancer Lineberger 2012-05-02T17:54:02Z News Item http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/april/scientists-awarded-2.4-million-to-study-genetic-variation-in-people-with-diabetes The goal of the study is to identify genetic variations that may help predict the response to various treatment options for type 2 diabetes to reduce cardiovascular disease. No publisher tahughes Medicine CTSA Research Diabetes 2012-04-30T15:09:43Z News Item http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/april/patient-survival-not-impacted-by-liver-transplants-performed-at-night-or-on-weekends A new study led by Dr. A. Sidney Barritt IV of UNC shows that liver transplants performed at night or on weekends do not adversely affect patient or graft survival. No publisher tahughes Medicine Transplant Gastrointestinal Research 2012-04-27T15:12:08Z News Item http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2012/april/longer-breastfeeding-along-with-antiretroviral-drugs-could-lower-hiv-transmission-to-babies New research finds that early weaning – stopping breastfeeding before six months – is of little, if any, protective value against HIV transmission nor is it safe for infant survival. No publisher tahughes Medicine HIV AIDS Infectious Diseases Research 2012-04-26T13:18:12Z News Item