Pediatrics And Children's Health Archives

The campus is expected to bring more than 8,000 jobs to southwestern Wake County

The parents of twins Amelia and Makenzie Kahn, who have been battling Batten disease, a rare genetic disorder, for eight years, are now celebrating signs of progress one year into a first-in-kind clinical study at UNC Health. Led by Yael Shiloh-Malawsky, MD, the new personalized treatment, Zebronkysen, is helping to better manage the disease.

New knowledge of these protein functions will help researchers develop new drug targets for chronic pain, autism spectrum disorders, epilepsy, migraines, and other neurological conditions.

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.

UNC Health is proud to announce that two physician-researchers were honored by the Triangle Business Journal as recipients of 2025 Health Care Leadership Awards.

An international cost-effectiveness study, led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the Kinshasa School of Public Health, has found that an effective antibiotic used to combat maternal sepsis vastly reduces health-care costs for pregnant patients.

New UNC program to support children and adults will officially open on World Down Syndrome Day

A national multi-site clinical trial, co-led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine, has found that therapeutic hypothermia may be harming preterm infants recovering from a specific type of brain injury.

Wesley Burks, MD, CEO of UNC Health and dean of the UNC School of Medicine, professor of pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology, Department of Pediatrics and Corinne A. Keet, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, write editorial in New England Journal of Medicine Evidence titled, “To Eat or Not to Eat: Oral Immunotherapy for High Threshold Peanut Allergy.”

The Bone Marrow Transplant Clinic at North Carolina Basnight Cancer Hospital won the Pinnacle of Excellence Award. The North Carolina Heart & Vascular Hospital and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at UNC Health Rex in Raleigh both won the Guardian of Excellence Award.

Drug work one of “7 Medical Breakthroughs that Changed Medicine in 2024.”

Yamini Virkud, MD, MPH, associate professor of pediatrics and director of Bioinformatics at the UNC FAI in the Department of Pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine

New research led by Yamini Virkud, MD, MPH, associate professor of pediatrics, director of Bioinformatics at the UNC Food Allergy Initiative (FAI) in the Department of Pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine, reveals key metabolite pathways associated with food allergy and differential responses to oral immunotherapy to treat food allergy.

Category: Pediatrics And Children’s Health

Apex selected as home for new NC Children’s Health Campus

Family Experiences Unexpected Improvements of Personalized Treatment for Batten Disease

Proteins Important in Neural Communication Have Different Roles Than Previously Thought

UNC Researchers Help Marion Family Affected by Rare Mosquito Disease

Two from UNC Health Named in TBJ Health Care Leadership Awards

Effective Antibiotic for Maternal Sepsis Saves Healthcare Costs, Study Finds

UNC Children’s Announces Grand Opening of Down Syndrome Clinic

Therapy for Perinatal Asphyxia Does Not Benefit Preterm Infants, Study Finds

Burks and Keet Publish Editorial on Oral Immunotherapy for High Threshold Peanut Allergy

Press Ganey Recognizes UNC Health in 2024 Human Experience Awards

UNC ‘Breakthrough’ Research on Food Allergy Drug Featured in National Geographic

Study Reveals Importance of Bile Acids and other Metabolites in Food Allergies and Treatment