Tag: 2020

Tocilizumab, used for rheumatoid arthritis because it suppresses part of the immune response, has now been widely used for Covid-19 patients, but new studies cast doubt on the drug and the “hypothesis underlying its use.”  A New York Times and Washington Post article recognized two studies in JAMA Internal Medicine...

Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS, associate professor of infectious diseases and director of infection prevention at UNC Medical Center, told The Washington Post that regardless of how the virus may be transmitted — either through aerosolization or via surface contamination — preventive measures remain the same: Wear a mask and practice...

Lisa Carey, MD, is one of the top 10 breast cancer experts in the country, ranked by Expertscape, which is an online database that accesses the expertise and contributions of physicians and medical institutions worldwide. She is the only physician ranked in North Carolina. Carey is the L. Richardson and...

Lindsay Wilson, MD, MPH, the John W. Foust Medical Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor in the UNC Department of Medicine and associate professor in the division of geriatric medicine, has been named co-director of Individualization Phase. Ana Felix, MD, MBBCh, who has led the Individualization Phase since its inception, will transition...

In a WRAL interview, David Wohl, MD, commented on the growing number of people in North Carolina with COVID-19 and the increase in hospitalizations, with more than 1,000 being hospitalized every day. “We are not being as careful as we need to be,” Wohl said. “We have entered phase 3...

The Associated Press interviewed Hanna Sanoff, MD, MPH, about grief, an “inescapable” part of the job for oncologists, and she explained how mourning “the lost of the human connection helps her help others grieve.” Sanoff also said she has “learned from patients how to deliver bad news in person and...

Trevor Jolly, MBBS, Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, and Kimberly Shoenbill, MD, PhD, are co-authors of an editorial published in JAMA calling for more funding and better reimbursement for smoking cessation counseling for cancer patients who smoke. The article asserts that programs designed to help cancer patients stop using tobacco should...

Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MSc, told WRAL that being in intimate gatherings can be more threatening for contracting the coronavirus than being at crowded events. “What we see from the epidemiological data, the contact tracing and the outbreak investigations is that the majority of the cases are really closely connected to...

Carlton Moore, MD, MS, has been appointed associate director of UNC’s Institute for Health and Quality Improvement (IHQI), and is professor of medicine in the division of hospital medicine and associate chief for research and quality improvement. Lavinia Kolarczyk, MD, has also been appointed associate director. She is associate professor...

Led by Millie Kwan, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the division of rheumatology, allergy and immunology, and Renae Boerneke, PharmD, the team has launched an innovative outpatient program where providers de-lable penicillin allergy through penicillin allergy assessments.

Principal Investigator Seth Berkowitz, MD, MPH, with research partners Community Servings and Massachusetts General Hospital, was featured in Nutrition Insights for a study that focuses on using medically tailored meal delivery as an effective health care intervention for diabetes. The five-year research project grant (R01), a $2.9 million NIH grant,...

David Wohl, MD, MPH, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, explained to WRAL News how false negative tests for COVID-19 can occur, and “suggests waiting at least five days or so after exposure before getting tested to be sure and so the end result isn’t a false...