UNC School of Medicine News

• Family House Diaries: From Burns to Blessings
  A fiery accident left Robert Leffer of Sanford, N.C., with life-threatening injuries, permanent disfigurement and lifetime rehabilitation ahead – and more blessings than Leffer, his wife Amalia and his health care team can sometimes find words to describe.
• A Blessing to Many: Erick's Story
  Erick Gomez-Fuentes was born with "Prune Belly Syndrome," a defect that occurs once in every 40,000 births. This video tells his story.
• Five tips for surviving the holidays
  Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz, an expert in anxiety disorders and professor of psychiatry and psychology in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine and College of Arts & Sciences, offers five tips for coping with holiday-related stress.
• Don’t add an ER visit to your holiday plans
  UNC emergency physician Abhi Mehrotra, M.D., explains how you can avoid the most common injuries that land people in a hospital emergency department during the four-day Thanksgiving holiday period.
• Viagra for women? Drug developed as antidepressant effective in treating low libido
  Pooled results from three separate clinical trials of flibanserin, a drug originally created as an antidepressant, show it is effective in treating women with acquired hypoactive sexual desire disorder. These trials were the first ever to test a therapy that works at the level of the brain to enhance libido in women reporting low sexual desire.

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