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 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.
October 7, 2020
WUNC Producer Charlie Shelton-Ormond talks with Cindy Gay, MD, the primary investigator of a Phase 3 clinical trial for a COVID vaccine taking place at UNC-Chapel Hill.
September 17, 2020
Adaora Adimora, MD, PhD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases and professor of epidemiology in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been honored by her peers with the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Award.