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International Coverage

Special needs costs vary by state
United Press International
A U.S. study found the extra costs of raising a child with special needs can vary widely depending on the state in which the family lives. ...(Paul T.) Shattuck and his co-author, Susan L. Parish of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, found that wealthier states tend to have lower out-of-pocket medical expenses.

National Coverage

Study: Giving Up Alcohol May Cause Depression
All Headline News (Wire Service)
Researchers at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that people who stop drinking may develop depression. ..."Our research in an animal model establishes a causal link between abstinence from alcohol drinking and depression," study senior author Dr. Clyde W. Hodge, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology in the UNC School of Medicine, said in a statement.
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moderate-drinking-to-depression.html

Retired Cleveland museum director dies in N. Carolina
The Associated Press
Sherman E. Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art for 25 years who expanded its world-renowned Asian art and Old Master collections, died Wednesday, the museum said. He was 90. Lee died in North Carolina, where he had taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, museum spokesman Jim Kopniske said.
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Regional Coverage

Michigan tops for supporting special children
The Detroit Free Press (Mich.)
While Michigan families with special-needs children are hurt by the tough economy like everyone else, they have fewer extra expenses for them than their counterparts in other states, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics. Among U.S. families with special-needs children, Michigan has the lowest average percentage of families who have to pay for services, at just over 86%, reported Paul Shattuck, professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis, and study coauthor Susan Parish of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

State and Local Coverage

Magazine puts UNC Hospitals with best
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC Hospitals ranks among the nation's best in several areas, including specialties in cancer, digestive, ear, nose and throat, gynecology and kidney disease, according to new U.S. News & World Report rankings released today. ...UNC Hospitals Chief of Staff Brian Goldstein said a valid measure of a hospital's quality is its consistent appearance in the magazine's hospital rankings.
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Burn Patient Care
"WUNC News" WUNC-FM
When patients experience burns, especially severe burns that extend over large parts of the body, they need intensive care from many people, doctors, surgeons, social workers, therapists. The best place to get this kind of multi-disciplinary care is at a burn center. But across the country, burn centers are closing. UNC Hospital is bucking that trend. This month, they’re expanding their burn unit, adding 10 intensive care beds, with more to come. Rose Hoban reports.

LabCorp test called 'ground-breaking,' but concerns raised
The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area
Blogs and medical reporters are using terms like "gold standard" and "ground-breaking" to describe OvaSure, a new test being marketed by Laboratory Corp. of America that could dramatically reduce the mortality rate of ovarian cancer, which kills about 15,000 women in the United States each year. "It's exciting and promising," said Dr. Paola Gehrig, a clinical instructor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at UNC-Chapel Hill who also practices at Moses Cone Health System in Greensboro.

A mass of Carolina Catholics today (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
When I asked a Catholic friend whether she attended St. Thomas More church here, she answered in true Yogi Berra fashion, "No one goes there anymore; the parking situation is impossible." (William F. Powers, a retired professor of sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the author of "Tar Heel Catholics: A History of Catholicism in North Carolina.")

Intensive looks in 10 10-minute plays
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Edgy, existential, even extra-terrestrial: the ArtsCenter's seventh annual super-short play festival takes intense, 10-minute looks into lives pushed to the limit. ...Each tightly organized and concentrated play, said UNC Drama Department professor Greg Kable, "offers its own distinct pleasure and provocative short, sharp shock."

Asian art scholar Sherman Emery Lee dies at age 90
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
Asian art scholar and former UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University art history adjunct professor Sherman Emery Lee died here Wednesday. ...For close to two decades, Lee advised the Ackland Museum on the creation of its Asian art collection, now considered by many to be the premier such collection in the southeastern U.S.
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Lifestory&PersonId=113145453
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Issues and Trends

Bill could trigger search for new Orange County airport
The Carrboro Citizen
The North Carolina House and Senate will need to work out differences for a bill that would allow the University of North Carolina and UNC Health Care to create an airport authority, but supporters anticipate that some form of the legislation will pass this session.