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Five tips for surviving the holidays


Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz, an expert in anxiety disorders and professor of psychiatry and psychology at Carolina, offers five tips for coping with holiday-related stress.

“We don’t have to like the holidays, and they might not be stress free, but going into them thinking, ‘This is temporary, I can get through this,’ instead of “Oh, God, this is going to be awful,’ prepares you to get through them,” Abramowitz says. read more
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An expert on new digital mammography techniques that can be used to possibly save more women from breast cancer,  Etta Pisano, M.D. directs UNC-Chapel Hill's breast imaging lab and is conversant on the latest treatment strategies. Find more experts

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UNC study to examine if nutritional supplements protect HIV-positive mothers, infants in Africa E-mail
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received a $2.2 million grant to find out if simple nutritional supplements, fortified with micronutrients and essential fats, protect the health of HIV-positive women and their infants after weaning.
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UNC nursing school receives $3.2 million for end-of-life communication study E-mail
Thursday, October 08, 2009
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher Mi-Kyung Song, Ph.D., has been awarded a grant worth nearly $3.2 million from the National Institute of Nursing Research for a study to ease the burden of decision making for fatally-ill kidney patients and their families.
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UNC Health Sciences Library hosts talk on art and medicine E-mail
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
The Health Sciences Library at the UNC-Chapel Hill will host a panel discussion on Oct. 14 on the relationship between art and medicine.
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Prenatal exposure to BPA might explain aggressive behavior in some 2-year-old girls E-mail
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Daughters of women exposed to a common chemical found in some plastics while they were pregnant are more likely to have unusually aggressive and hyperactive behaviors as 2-year-olds, according to a new study by researchers at Simon Fraser University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
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UNC study pinpoints gene controlling number of brain cells E-mail
Monday, October 05, 2009
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