June 11, 2025
Newsworthy from the School of Medicine, Week of June 6 – June 12
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Category: News
June 10, 2025
New Treatment for Common GI Infection May be Less Effective Than Traditional Therapy for Preventing Severe Disease, Study Finds
A new comparative study led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine found that a new therapy for prevention of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection may be less effective than traditional therapy when it comes to preventing severe disease over time.
June 4, 2025
Newsworthy from the School of Medicine, Week of May 30 – June 5
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May 29, 2025
UNC Researchers Help Marion Family Affected by Rare Mosquito Disease
Five-year-old Granger Horney contracted the La Crosse Virus, a potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease, in July 2024. With blood samples from Granger, researchers at Carolina are working to create better diagnostics and a treatment for the little-known disease.
May 29, 2025
Newsworthy from the School of Medicine, Week of May 23 – May 29
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May 28, 2025
UNC Health Championship Returns to Raleigh Country Club May 29 to June 1
The Triangle’s premier professional golf tournament draws thousands of fans to Raleigh
May 23, 2025
UNC Study Offers New Hope for Safer Bleeding Treatments
Published in Blood, a new study led by UNC School of Medicine’s Alisa Wolberg, PhD, reveals that reducing or blocking the protein that causes blood clot breakdown does not increase the formation of dangerous clots known as thromboses.
May 21, 2025
Newsworthy from the School of Medicine, Week of May 16 – May 22
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May 20, 2025
New Study Finds Fewer Americans Are Developing Dementia—But More Are Living with It
An analysis of Medicare data, led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, reveals that new dementia cases are falling but the number of people living with dementia is rising.
May 20, 2025
Novant Health, UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine award $1 million to launch two regional research efforts
Physician researchers aim to evaluate the use of AI to expand access to prenatal scans and launch a regional opioid stewardship initiative focusing on general surgery.
May 19, 2025
UNC Neurology’s Shih Developing Improved, Silent MRI for Better Brain Imaging
NIH highlights UNC Neurology researcher’s newly developed silent functional MRI (fMRI) technique created to improve biomedical research.
May 14, 2025
Newsworthy from the School of Medicine, Week of May 9 – May 15
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