Larry Keith was remembered by friends and family at the St. Paul AME Church in Raleigh on Monday, Feb. 22. Keith, a pioneer in recruiting minority students into the health professions, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 17.
The study was conducted in six countries. Researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine took part in the study in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in partnership with the Kinshasa School of Public Health.
The North Carolina Area Health Education Centers program (AHEC) has been awarded $13.6 million to help primary care health-care providers adopt electronic health records and other health information technology.
New research from UNC-Chapel Hill suggests that the addition or removal of a certain type of chemical tag – called an acetyl group – onto metabolic enzymes plays a key role in how cellular metabolism is regulated.
Derek Chiang, PhD, assistant professor of genetics in the UNC School of Medicine, has been named a 2010 Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Chiang is one of 118 recipients of the prestigious award.
Jeanette Cook, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of biochemistry and biophysics at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, has received the school’s Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine.
Please join us for this year's Carl W. Gottschalk Lecture. The guest speaker will be Christine Seidman, M.D. She is the T.W. Smith Professor of Medicine and Genetics & Director, Brigham & Women's Cardiovascular Genetics Center at Harvard Medical School.
After 24 straight hours on their feet for the kids, the UNC Dance Marathon announced Saturday evening that it raised $421,851.32 to benefit the children and families of the N.C. Children's Hospital.
The Society of Acupuncture Research (SAR) will hold its 2010 International conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Chapel Hill from March 17 - 21. The conference is hosted by the UNC Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
Back by popular demand! The NC TraCS Community Engagement Core and the Carolina Community Network proudly co-sponsor a series of free workshops on research topics. The next workshop in the series is "Grant Writing/Proposal Development."
A number of fundraisers for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation are scheduled in the next month. St. Baldrick's coordinates worldwide head-shaving events, with volunteer “shavees” raising money to support childhood cancer research.
The Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation will host the fifth annual State of the Art Conference on March 28-29 at the UNC Rizzo Center in Chapel Hill. The conference is open to residents and faculty of participating institutions, as well as physicians and other health care providers.
Vera Moura, M.D., will teach two ten-week courses of Mind-Body Skills; one tailored specifically to health-care professionals and another for the general public. A personal interview is required before admission to the program. Each group is limited to eight participants.
This weekend, Dr. Michael Bolognesi of the Duke University Medical School joins the "Here's to Your Health" radio show to discuss joint replacement. We hope you can tune in to WCHL 1360 AM either Saturday at 9 a.m., Sunday at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., or Monday at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.
During the University's spring break (March 6 - 14), Chapel Hill Transit (CHT) will end weekday services earlier in the evening on the CM, CW, D, J, NU and V routes.
