Tag: 2021

Amid Covid Booster Debate, West Virginia to Check Immunity of Vaccinated Nursing Home Residents (August 3, 2021) Physician’s Weekly reports West Virginia raced ahead of the country last winter to get people in nursing homes vaccinated against covid-19, but with cases and hospitalizations on the rise again, state officials want to...

David Weber, MD, MPH, medical director for infection prevention at the UNC Medical Center, answers the most frequently asked questions related to UNC Health’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in a new video series. Find the questions and Dr. Weber’s responses.

Koyal Jain, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine in the division of nephrology and hypertension, received three teaching awards at the 2021 Whitehead Lecture and Award Ceremony. Jain was awarded the “Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Excellence in Teaching Award in the Foundation Phase.” This award was established to recognize the most outstanding educator...

Medicine’s Same Day Clinic started as an urgent care service for the acute care needs of internal medicine patients at the ACC. When a patient’s established provider was booked they could instead be seen in Same Day Clinic. Now at Eastowne, the clinic is expanding to meet the needs of...

Populations at risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD) often go untested because patients with early CKD have few or no symptoms to indicate kidney damage. Medical costs attributable to CKD rise as the severity of CKD increases. Identifying and treating CKD in the earlier stages can offer the highest value...

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has awarded Ross Boyce, MD, MSc, a 2021 Clinical Scientist Development Award for his research proposal entitled, “Getting malaria off the back of women and children in western Uganda,” which aims at reducing the incidence of malaria among infants and young children in rural Uganda....

August marks the transition from summer to fall, and there are a variety of multicultural holidays and cultural events to recognize throughout the month. Following is a list of religious and historical observances. August 1: Lammas, a festival to mark the annual wheat harvest within some English-speaking countries in the Northern...

To prevent further spread of the Delta variant, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask guidance to recommend that fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors when in areas with “substantial” and “high” transmission of Covid-19, which includes nearly two-thirds of all US counties. The updated CDC guidance...

Louise King, MD, assistant professor in the division of general medicine and clinical epidemiology, is co-director of the UNC COVID Recovery Clinic. She is featured in a Wall Street Journal recognizing millions of people remain at risk of developing an array of less serious but potentially debilitating long-term symptoms of the...

A new study demonstrates patients with advanced bladder cancers whose tumors have a mutated FGFR3 gene respond to immunotherapy treatment in a manner that is similar to patients without that mutation, a discovery that runs counter to previous assumptions. Led by scientists in the Department of Medicine and members of...

Division of Infectious Diseases Ed Browne, PhD, received a $4-million NIH grant to study the effects of cannabis use on the HIV reservoir. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has awarded Ross Boyce, MD, MSc, a 2021 Clinical Scientist Development Award for his research proposal entitled, “Getting malaria off the back of women and children in...

Marjory Charlot, MD, MPH, MSc, assistant professor of medicine in the division of oncology and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center was named the 2021 recipient of the Conquer Cancer Advanced Clinical Research Award for Diversity and Inclusion. The honor includes a three-year, $450,000 grant from Conquer Cancer,...