The findings by Victoria Bautch, Ph.D., published in the Sept. 15, 2009 issue of the journal Developmental Cell, could give important insights into the formation of the vasculature needed to feed new tumors.
In the study, published in the September/October 2009 issue of journal Academic Pediatrics, a sample of 163 parents of children seen at pediatric clinics at UNC and Vanderbilt University were tested to assess their understanding of BMI, their health literacy and their math abilities.
In 2010, the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will begin a new six-year integrated residency program, which residents will enter directly from medical school.
More than triple the previous cancer clinic space, which was located in a 1950s-era building, the new hospital was funded by the state of North Carolina and designed with patients and families in mind.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of 35 research universities involved in a new Web project called Futurity (www.futurity.org), which was officially launched Tuesday (Sept. 15).
Carolina Launch Pad, the pre-commercial technology business accelerator located at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) will soon begin its second year and is seeking a new class of aspiring IT entrepreneurs from the UNC-Chapel Hill community.
This grant seeks to build the capacity of new community-academic partnerships to work together to solve problems in translating health knowledge into meaningful community health improvements.
The Urology Clinic will offer free prostate cancer screenings from 1 - 7 p.m. Sept. 23-24 for all men over 40 years old or with a family history of prostate cancer.
We invite you to join us in celebrating the strength and courage of those who fight cancer everyday. See their faces, read their stories and share your own.
The Health Sciences Library is running a trial of SpringerImages, a giant collection of scientific images spanning the scientific, technical, and medical fields.
The Bullitt History of Medicine Club sponsors a collaborative series of monthly evening meetings with the Trent History of Medicine Society, alternating between UNC and Duke campuses, as well as a series of noon meetings at UNC. Both evening and noon schedules are provided below. All meetings are free and open to the public.
A reminder that certain parking lots are reserved for seven UNC home football games. UNC’s next home game is noon Sept. 19 against ECU in Kenan Stadium.
On Thursday, Oct. 22, UNC will host FSU in Kenan Stadium in a nationally televised football game. More than 60,000 fans are expected to attend this game. Traffic around UNC Hospitals will be significantly impacted Oct. 22 from 5:30 - 8 p.m. and 11:15 - midnight.
Participants at this day-long symposium will discover the important role that translational research plays in reducing health disparities affecting all ages.
Dr. Nortin Hadler will participate in the seminar, "On Illness: Medicine, Media, Society, and the Experience of Health" along with Drs. Kaja Finkler and Tom Linden.
Any member of UNC Hospitals attending medical staff is eligible for nomination. Nomination may be made by UNC Health Care employees and by members of the medical staff and housestaff.
