Author Archives: Kim Morris

The National Liberty Museum honored Balfour Sartor, MD, with its inaugural Healthcare Hero in the Field of Crohn’s Disease for his decades of work to find better treatments for inflammatory bowel diseases.

A landmark UNC study showed that the finger prick blood glucose test is unnecessary for most people with type 2 diabetes, and now researchers Laura Young, MD, PhD from the division of endocrinology, and Katrina Donahue, MD, MPH from family medicine have been awarded $1.3 million to implement their findings...

University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers were awarded $5.5 million to increase colorectal cancer screening, follow-up and care referrals in community health centers in North Carolina.

Dr. Christopher A. Caulfield discusses a UNC hospitalist study that suggests hospitalists can safely aid patients by reducing the costs and adverse outcomes associated with unnecessary hospitalization.

Dr. Fischer from the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine has been featured in a NY Times article discussing the success of experimental treatments for Ebola in Central Africa.

Included in the new investments by Susan G. Komen was $400,000 for UNC Lineberger’s Lisa Carey, MD, the physician-in-chief of the N.C. Cancer Hospital, Richardson and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer Distinguished Professor in Breast Cancer Research, chief of the UNC School of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology, and a member of the...

These findings by UNC School of Medicine researchers are an important step forward in designing more effective clinical trials and developing personalized Crohn’s disease therapies.

New recommendations, co-written by UNC School of Medicine’s John Buse, MD, PhD, cover the type of drugs patients should be prescribed and how providers can better help patients manage their health.

Hospitalist study comparing outcomes for patients with hip fracture, suggests there is a benefit to hospitalist co-management.

Clinical instructor Monica Reynolds, MD, presented research at ASN Kidney Week that shows nephrologists often lack confidence in managing women's health issues that may be related to kidney disease. The study was one of only a few selected from thousands, for special release during ASN Kidney Week, the premier US...

Mottl's research suggests aggressive treatment of blood pressure and cholesterol may result in poor kidney outcomes in some patients with type 2 diabetes.

Older adults will find a geriatrics-accredited emergency department at UNC Hospitals Hillsborough Campus, one of just twenty such centers of age-friendly emergency care in the nation.