A four-year clinical trial led by Edwin Kim, MD, at the UNC School of Medicine, has found that an increased dosage of a unique type of peanut allergy immunotherapy continues to show promise for children.

A UAB-UNC School of Medicine collaboration found that a single oral dose of the common antibiotic azithromycin reduced the risk of maternal sepsis or death by 33 percent in women who delivered vaginally. UNC School of Medicine study leads were Melissa Bauserman, MD, MPH, Carl Bose, MD, and Jackie Patterson, MD, MPH.

Meghan Rebuli, PhD, an assistant professor of pediatrics in the UNC School of Medicine and member of the Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, shares new findings and recommendations from an expert-led workshop.

Principal investigators Misty Good, MD, MS, and Scott Magness, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, and Jennifer Canvasser, MSW, NEC Society will lead a $1-million project funded through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to map cellular roles in necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation awarded more than $7.9 million in grants to 16 early-career physician scientists, including two from the UNC School of Medicine – Andrea Knittel, MD, PhD and Peyton Thompson, MD.

The UNC site lead investigators are Michelle Hernandez, MD, professor in the UNC Department of Pediatrics, and Katrina Donahue, MD, MPH, professor and vice chair of research in the UNC Department of Family Medicine.

The Clinical Trials Unit in the UNC Children’s Research Institute is a site for a national study to assess the efficacy of Paxlovid, a pill to treat COVID in children under 18 at increased risk for severe illness.

The third annual UNC Autism Fathers Conference is set for April 30 on zoom. It will be hosted by Joe Piven, MD, and will feature speakers Robert Naseef, PhD, and Michael Hannon, MEd, PhD, both fathers of children with autism and co-facilitators of a fathers’ group in Philadelphia.

All six basic science departments rank in the top 6 in National Institutes of Health funding for federal fiscal year 2021, according to a new report by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, and 12 clinical departments rank in the top 30. Half of the school’s basic science departments (three) are ranked first among peer public schools of medicine.

Co-led by Hendrée Jones, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, this work is major step towards improving standards of care for infants prenatally exposed to opioids, part of the HHS Overdose Prevention Strategy.

Andrea Hayes-Jordan, MD, Byah Thomason Doxey-Sanford Doxey Distinguished Professor, Chief of the division of general pediatric surgery, has been elected a governor of the board of directors for the American Pediatric Surgical Association.

UNC Children’s is nationally ranked in seven subspecialties, two in the top 25

Tag: Pediatrics

Novel Peanut Allergy Treatment Shown to be Safe, Effective, and Lasting

Single Dose of Azithromycin Reduces Maternal Sepsis or Death

UNC Researchers Tackle the E-cigarette or Vaping Product Use–associated Lung Injury (EVALI) Epidemic

Carolina Researchers Awarded $1 Million by CZI to Combat Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Knittel, Thompson Receive Clinical Scientist Development Awards

UNC School of Medicine Participating in $31-Million Asthma Study

UNC Children’s Enrolling Participants for Paxlovid Pill Study

UNC Autism Research Center to Host Conference for Fathers

UNC School of Medicine NIH Funding Ranks 5th Among Public Universities

HHS Announces a Standard Clinical Definition for Opioid Withdrawal in Infants

Hayes-Jordan Elected to American Pediatric Surgical Association Board of Directors

UNC Children’s Named to U.S. News’ “Best Children’s Hospitals” for 12th Straight Year