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.
Speaker, Gregory Sprung, MD, UNC Cardiology Fellow
Through his roles as medical director of hospital epidemiology and associate chief medical officer of UNC Health Care, Dr. Weber works to prevent hospital-acquired infections in patients and staff at UNC Hospitals. Watch the video
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 Komen Scientific Advisory Board, for a study of HER2-positive breast cancer.
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 and international clinical and scientific meeting focused on kidney disease.
The internet is rife with warnings about the side effects of acid suppressants. With millions of people taking these drugs, new reports about dementia, kidney damage, bone fracture and other putative side effects cause much concern for patients and providers. But how much of it is true? And what should we do about it? The … Read more
Mottl’s research suggests aggressive treatment of blood pressure and cholesterol may result in poor kidney outcomes in some patients with type 2 diabetes.
Speaker: Robert Rayson, MD, UNC Cardiology FellowTopic: “Percutaneous Mechanical Support in STEMI: Options, Patient Selection & Future Directions”
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.