June 23, 2021
UNC School of Medicine scientists led by Aravinda de Silva, PhD, identified the small subpopulation of antibodies in vaccinated children that correlate with protection against dengue fever. This research should help shape better vaccines for one of the most widespread infectious diseases in the world.
June 23, 2021
Nadja Vielot, PhD, assistant professor of Family Medicine was recently awarded a diversity supplement sponsored by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to conduct a study of the effectiveness of the recombinant herpes zoster vaccine among older adults using health care utilization data.
June 9, 2021
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) recently awarded five research grants to address vaccine hesitancy, uptake, and implementation among populations who experience health disparities.
May 13, 2021
Research contributing to discoveries associated with COVID-19 has been growing on the UNC campus over the past year. To help increase visibility of this integral research and illustrate the extensive organizational collaborations that help move UNC research forward, a team from University Libraries – Health Sciences Library analyzed the COVID-19 research output of UNC Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) researchers between January 2020 and April 2021.
May 5, 2021
UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke researchers promote better health through gamification. The study was co-led by Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH, at the UNC School of Medicine, and Kate Meussig, Phd, at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
March 30, 2021
The tool kit was developed by Mildred Kwan, MD, PhD, and Renae Boerneke, PharmD, to educate patients and train healthcare providers to proactively assess penicillin allergies. Delabeling patients who are not truly allergic to penicillins is an important stewardship tool that decreases unnecessary use of broad-spectrum antibiotics.
January 7, 2021
Everyone can be an antimicrobial steward. Here are a few ways healthcare professionals can put antimicrobial stewardship principles into practice.
December 9, 2020
The Carolina Antimicrobial Stewardship Program’s latest newsletter features expert advice from CASP’s lead pharmacist Lindsay Daniels in Clinicians’ Corner, pediatric stewardship news from UNC Children’s Hospital’s Zach Willis and Bill Wilson, how collaboration with Infection Prevention is expected to help keep C. difficile infection rates low, and plans to scale up Antibiotic Time-outs across UNC Hospitals.
November 5, 2020
Keisha Gibson, MD, MPH, FASN, Department of Medicine Vice Chair of Diversity and Inclusion, shares why she joined a COVID-19 clinical trial and why she's urging others to consider joining the fight.
October 28, 2020
Janeth Pearl, residente de Cary, explica por qué participa en el ensayo clínico de la vacuna COVID-19.
October 21, 2020
Led by Stan Lemon, MD, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and GSK colleagues discovered that the majority of rhinoviruses need a human protein called STING to infect cells and replicate to cause disease.
October 15, 2020
Chapel Hill resident, Gracie Howell, explains why she's taking part in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial held by UNC School of Medicine’s Infectious Diseases Division.