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NC’s $25 Cash Card Program Expands to 38 Counties As State Hopes to Boost Vaccination Rates

North Carolina health officials are expanding the number of locations where you can get a $25 cash card for getting the COVID-19 vaccine or taking someone to get vaccinated. The $25 is meant to offset the time and transportation costs of getting the shot. After a trial period in just...

Delta Variant Causes Concern As Cases Rise Across the Southeast

A CBS-17 report says the COVID-19 variant that infected eight N.C. State baseball players can infect twice as many people as the virus last year. The report also acknowledged doctors are mostly concerned about those who are not vaccinated, including David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of...

Review Finds No ‘High-Quality’ Evidence That Weight Loss Supplements Work

Among adults in the United States trying to maintain a moderate weight, roughly a thirdTrusted Source say they have used dietary supplements to achieve their goal. But, according to a new study in Obesity, led by John Batsis, MD, associate professor in the division of geriatric medicine and Gillings School...

Gay Discusses Research That Suggests COVID-19 Vaccines Could Provide Protection For Years

So much of the world hoped for vaccines that were effective for a long time in fighting COVID-19. Cindy Gay, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, who leads the UNC School of Medicine’s Moderna clinical trial, recognized a study published in the journal Nature...

‘Unusual’ That Vaccinated NC State Baseball Players Test Positive For COVID-19

After COVID-19 forced N.C. State out of the College World Series, the university reported that some of the players who tested positive had previously been vaccinated. Currently, the CDC only tracks breakthrough cases that result in hospitalization or death and statistics show 4,115 of those cases among more than 150...

Gap Grows Between Best, Worst NC Counties in Vaccine Rollout

The gap continues to widen between North Carolina’s counties performing relatively well during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and those that aren’t, a CBS17.com data analysis found. “I don’t think it’s too much of a surprise, given the size of our state and its geography and other influences, that different counties...

Medicine Awarded $20,000 to Promote More Equitable Health System

The Department of Medicine’s Division of General Medicine has received a $20,000 grant from leading internal medicine organizations to rebuild trust and address inequities in medical education and training. The award was presented by the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM), the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), the ABIM...

Moore Leads Validation Study to Understand Performance of Natural Language Processing in Ascertaining Framingham Heart Failure

Carlton Moore, MD, is lead author of a study published in the British Medical Journal entitled “Ascertaining Framingham heart failure phenotype from inpatient electronic health record data using natural language processing: a multicentre Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) validation study.” The study used free-text clinical notes and reports from hospitalized...

IHQI Announces Improvement Scholars, Three From the Department of Medicine

The UNC Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement has announced new projects that will be supported through the IHQI’s Improvement Scholars Program from Sep 1, 2021 – Aug 31, 2022. Congratulations to the following selected project leads from the Department of Medicine. Jaydeep Lamba, MD and Hillary Spangler, MD, division of...

Study Suggests Opportunities to Reduce Laboratory Overuse Across Conditions and Children’s Hospitals

John R. Stephens, MD, professor of medicine and pediatrics, in the division of hospital medicine, published “Outcomes Associated With High-Versus Low-Frequency Laboratory Testing Among Hospitalized Children” in Hospital Pediatrics. Previous pediatric studies have revealed substantial variation in laboratory testing for specific conditions, but clinical outcomes associated with high- versus low-frequency...

Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum in a Patient with COVID-19 Pneumonia

Naseem Alavian, MD, MPH, is lead author for a case study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. The article recognizes that spontaneous pneumomediastinum can occur in COVID-19 pneumonia in the absence of traditional risk factors, such as smoking, parenchymal lung disease, intubation, or positive pressure ventilation. Other authors...

Ciccone Co-Leads Study to Understand Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among HCP and Households

Health care personnel (HCP) are at high risk for exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. While personal protective equipment may mitigate this risk, prospective data collection on its use and other risk factors for seroconversion in this population were identified for a study led by Emily Ciccone, MD, MHS, infectious diseases...