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Cohen Says Hydroxychloroquine Studies More Provocative Than Definitive

A Bloomberg article recently featured a key study of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, for Covid-19 protection, that involved 821 health-care workers, first responders and people living with infected patients. The article reports “half were given hydroxychloroquine for five days, while the other half received a placebo pill that contained the...

O’Leary, Cavender Recognize Emerging Ways to Use Real World Data

Matt Cavender, MD, MPH, FACC, associate professor of medicine in the division of cardiology, recently published a paper in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism with medicine resident Colin P. O’Leary, MD, analyzing new opportunities to utilize real world data. “Emerging opportunities to harness real world data: An introduction to data sources,...

Cohen Writes Editorial on COVID-19 Prevention Study in NEJM

Myron Cohen, MD, wrote an editorial on the results of a clinical trial to determine efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as prevention of COVID-19. As of June 1, 2020, ClinicalTrials.gov listed 203 COVID-19 clinical trials with hydroxychloroquine, 60 of which were focused on prophylaxis — prevention of disease transmission. Researchers just published the latest...

Bartelt Discussed Study With Mayo Clinic To Understand How Plasma With COVID-19 Antibodies Can Fight Infection

Luther Bartelt, assistant professor in the division of infectious diseases, discussed UNC Health’s participation in a Mayo Clinic study with the Federal Drug Administrations’s Expanded Access Program, an effort to study plasma with antibodies from the blood of people who have recovered from the coronavirus. In NC Health News, Bartlet...

Cardiologists Discuss What COVID-19 Means For the Cardiac Patient

Heart disease does not stop during a pandemic. On May 13, the UNC Health Foundation hosted a webinar featuring four division cardiologists in a panel discussion called “What COVID-19 means for the cardiac patient.” Joseph Rossi, MD, Anil Gehi, MD, John Vavalle, MD, and Paula Miller, MD, participated in a...

Simpson Describes Chest Pain Symptoms For Heart Disease

Ross Simpson, Jr, MD, PhD, professor medicine in the division of cardiology, was interviewed for an MSN article “50 Warnings Signs You Have Heart Disease” that identifies a variety of signs, symptoms and risk factors that can help identify heart disease before it becomes life-threatening. “Chest pain is the most...

Working the Frontlines: Interview with Charlene Whayne

Cardiology nurse Charlene Whayne, RN, is back at the UNC Heart and Vascular Center, scheduling patients and preparing to reopen. But for nine weeks, she had a different job. Charlene worked at the Respiratory Diagnostic Center (RDC) in the Quick Treat, the outdoor tent facility for drive through COVID-19 testing...

Researchers Discover Key Player in Hepatitis A Virus Infection

How hepatitis A virus (HAV) manages to enter liver cells called hepatocytes and initiate infection had remained a mystery for fifty years until now. University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers designed experiments using gene-editing tools to discover how molecules called gangliosides serve as de facto gatekeepers to allow...

Buse, Site Leader For Effort Gathering Big Data to Accelerate COVID-19 fight

A nationwide collaboration of clinicians, informaticians, and other biomedical researchers aims to turn data from hundreds of thousands of medical records from coronavirus patients into effective treatments and predictive analytical tools that could help lessen or end the global pandemic. Through the National COVID Cohort Collaborative, about 60 clinical institutions affiliated...

Internal Medicine Providers Serve Patients at RDC Care and Treat

The UNC Health Respiratory Diagnostic Center (RDC) opened last month with a drive through Quick Treat and Care and Treat unit to monitor and screen patients with respiratory symptoms that may be associated with coronavirus. Led by David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, the...

Research in the Department of Medicine, A Message from Dr. Janet Rubin

A message from Janet Rubin, MD, Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the division of endocrinology and metabolism and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine. For the last two months, except the (many) researchers working specifically on Covid-19 related topics, our labs have been closed....

Sickbert-Bennett Shares Research On the Effectiveness of Face Masks

Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS, associate professor of infectious diseases and director of infection prevention at UNC Medical Center, discussed the effectiveness of different face masks in a WRAL TechWire news article written by Mark Derewicz. UNC researchers measured the “fraction of submicron particles that penetrate into the breathing space of...