April 27, 2026
UNC Bioengineers Create New Material for Heart Monitoring Devices
Researchers have created heart monitoring sensors that conform to the skin, are comfortable, and can be worn while people are moving.
Tag: Heart Disease
October 6, 2025
New Calculator to Better Predict Stroke Risk in Atrial Fibrillation Patients
The new and improved tool, created by a first-year hematology and oncology fellow Samuel Short, MD, at the UNC School of Medicine, can help physicians better assess stroke risk in people with atrial fibrillation.
March 29, 2025
Study Finds Oral Semaglutide Vastly Reduces Heart Attacks, Strokes
A large clinical trial, co-led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine, has shown that the popular weight-loss drug significantly reduces cardiovascular events in people with type 2 diabetes, pre-existing cardiovascular disease, and/or chronic kidney disease.
January 31, 2025
MicroRNA Responsible for Sex Differences in Cardiac Physiology, Disease
Researchers pinpoint small molecules that greatly affect differences in heart health in men and women.
July 30, 2024
Researchers Link Midlife Blood Biomarkers to Late-life Dementia Risk
A research team led by Priya Palta, PhD, MHS, an associate professor of neurology at the UNC School of Medicine, has found that certain Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegenerative blood biomarkers in midlife and late life had strong associations with late-life dementia.
April 5, 2024
UNC Hospitals Performs First Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement in North Carolina
John P. Vavalle, MD, MHS, FACC, and Matthew A. Cavender, MD, MPH, FACC, interventional cardiologists and their collaborative team in the Structural Heart Disease Program at UNC, have performed their first transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement in the clinical setting, a revolutionary treatment for patients living with a common type of heart valve disease.
February 13, 2024
Five Questions with Autumn Grace Hullings
In this new Vital Signs series, we feature graduate student Autumn Grace Hullings in the Gordon-Larsen lab. Inspired by the emerging field of precision nutrition, Hullings would like to improve dietary guidelines to prevent or reduce cardiometabolic disease.
June 6, 2023
Researchers Target Proteins, Pathways Behind Congenital Heart Disease
UNC School of Medicine scientists Whitney Edwards, PhD, Frank Conlon, PhD, and colleagues identified molecular pathways critical for heart development.
January 9, 2023
Getting to the Heart of Chemotherapeutic Cardiotoxicity
Brian C. Jensen, associate professor of medicine and pharmacology in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Cardiology, speaks about his research on kinase inhibitor cardiotoxicity.
August 11, 2021
‘Stroke Belt’ battle: $30M study from UNC, Wake Forest targets blood pressure
The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and Wake Forest School of Medicine will lead a $29.9 million effort to help stroke survivors prevent another stroke by controlling blood pressure.
October 25, 2017
How to Turn Damaged Heart Tissue Back into Healthy Heart Muscle: New Details Emerge
Publishing their work in Nature, UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Li Qian, PhD, show how their new research platform helped them discover new cell subpopulations and crucial cellular players in the process of turning damaged heart tissue back into healthy heart muscle. The research platform could be used to study other biological processes and create tailored therapies.
September 26, 2017
Post Heart Attack: How can scar tissue be turned back into healthy heart muscle?
For the first time, UNC scientists detail crucial differences in two leading methods for generating heart muscle cells, a key strategy for new post-heart attack therapies.