April 18, 2024
UNC Children’s Dunkin’ Prom
UNC Children's hosted the UNC-Dunkin' Prom for teen patients on Friday, April 12. The night was filled with teens walking the red carpet and dancing the night away!
April 18, 2024
UNC Children's hosted the UNC-Dunkin' Prom for teen patients on Friday, April 12. The night was filled with teens walking the red carpet and dancing the night away!
April 5, 2024
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was one of four academic medical centers on the study, which shows that an intervention program developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics can dramatically reduce injuries in young children.
February 27, 2024
The FDA has approved two medications for the treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE)—the first oral medication tailored for adults and the exclusive therapeutic option for children. Evan Dellon, MD, MPH, internationally known for his work with EoE, and colleagues continue to focus on optimizing usage for effective, personalized outcomes.
February 26, 2024
A research study named Early Check has screened 1,000 newborns after birth in an effort to help identify rare conditions early, provide treatment, give parents educational information, and connect families with specialists throughout the state of North Carolina.
February 25, 2024
Stage one results from the OUtMATCH clinical trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that a monoclonal antibody, omalizumab, increased the amount of peanut, tree nuts, egg, milk and wheat that multi-food allergic children as young as age one could consume without an allergic reaction. Edwin Kim, MD, Corinne Keet, MD, PhD, and Mike Kulis, PhD, are contributing authors.
February 2, 2024
Sydney and Sheridan Taylor of Durham, North Carolina, have lived with this rare genetic disorder all of their lives. They and their mother, Helena, recount how far they have come and what more needs to be done during pain crises and emergency visits.
January 23, 2024
Catalina Berenblum Tobi, a 4th-year medical student, and Mara Buchbinder, PhD, professor and vice chair of social medicine, published qualitative research outlining how metaphors used when explaining inflammatory bowel disease affect young patients’ perceptions of illness and healing.
December 13, 2023
UNC School of Medicine students completed a half marathon in Durham in early December and donated their race medals to pediatric patients at the UNC Hospitals Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Clinic. The students are part of a new student organization, Medals4Mettle.
December 1, 2023
Doctors at the UNC School of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s collaborate to develop an innovative, patient-initiated online platform designed to remove the penicillin allergy label from misdiagnosed pediatric patients.
October 30, 2023
Children’s hospital care is now concentrated in fewer locations, and this has important implications for hospital planning and readiness, according to a new study led Michael Steiner, MD, MPH, of UNC Health.
October 10, 2023
A clinical study led by Edwin Kim, MD, at the UNC School of Medicine, showed how Peanut Sublingual Immunotherapy (Peanut SLIT) is safe and effective in children ranging from 1-to-4 years of age. Remission of peanut allergy was also possible after three months of stopping the treatment.
September 26, 2023
The new facility will include behavioral health and position the state as a national leader.