Four North Carolina families share their journey in experiencing Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, a rare condition that can result in fetal loss. Read their stories of hope, fears, and overwhelming gratitude for expert care at UNC Hospitals.

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.”

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.

A research project co-led by James Hagood, MD, professor of pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine, and colleagues will be supported in creating an atlas of the cells and cellular interactions in the nasal and oral cavities, throat, and lower airways of pediatric populations in unprecedented detail.

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) announced funding totaling $14.4 million for a Duke-UNC research collaboration to study new treatment options for pediatric inflammatory bowel diseases (PIBD). Michael D. Kappelman, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the UNC School of Medicine, will serve as principal investigator.

A comprehensive analysis published in the journal Gastroenterology and led by Michael D. Kappelman, MD, MPH, at the UNC School of Medicine, reveals that U.S. pediatric IBD rates have increased, ranking among the highest globally.

Edwin Kim, MD MS, director of the UNC Food Allergy Initiative at the UNC School of Medicine, will lead the first study of sublingual immunotherapy to address the feasibility and safety of treating multiple tree nut allergens simultaneously in children.

A large study co-led by Kori Flower, MD, MS, MPH, division chief of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine demonstrates that combining text messaging with in-person clinic counseling reduces obesity in the first two years of life. Samantha Schilling, MD, MSHP, associate professor in the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at UNC, was also a co-investigator in the study.

UNC Children's has opened the Muenzer MPS Research and Treatment Center dedicated to improving the lives of patients with mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS), a group of rare inherited conditions, and advancing research with the goal of creating better therapies.

The lab of Graham Diering, PhD, assistant professor of cell biology and physiology at the UNC School of Medicine, shows how sleep loss during early life impacts key aspects of brain development and how it can increase one’s risk for developing autism spectrum disorder.

Tag: Pediatrics

A Fight to Bring Life into the World with Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome

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

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

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

UNC Researchers to Accelerate Mapping of Cells Crucial to Child Respiratory Health and Disease

PCORI Awards UNC Researcher $14.4 Million to Study Emerging Medications for PIBD Patients

Kappelman Leads Landmark Study Revealing That 100,000 American Youth Are Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Kim Receives $1-Million Grant for Novel Multi-nut Allergy Treatment Study

New Study Finds Obesity Can Be Prevented in Very Young Children

UNC Children’s Opens Muenzer MPS Center in Chapel Hill

Let Sleeping Babies Lie: Scientists Highlight Negative Impacts of Sleep Disruption on Early Brain Development