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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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Multiple corticosteroid injections in pregnant women may increase cerebral palsy E-mail
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
When pregnant women are at high risk for preterm birth, giving them a single injection of corticosteroids has been shown to reduce the baby’s chances of having serious lung problems after birth.
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Maintaining weight after age 40 increases breast cancer survival E-mail
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Women sometimes feel there’s nothing they can do to improve their chances of survival after a breast cancer diagnosis. But there is, according to scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other institutions. Don’t gain weight after age 40.
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Hurricane Katrina's effects on social development addressed today E-mail
Monday, September 17, 2007
Russell T. Jones, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Virginia Polytechnic and State University, will speak at 4 p.m. today (Sept. 17) in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History as part of the 4th annual Patricia F. Waller Lecture.
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Leatherman to discuss role of microcredit in global health E-mail
Monday, September 17, 2007
UNC School of Public Health professor Sheila Leatherman will give the Dean’s Lecture on Public Health Transformation for the 21st century at 4 p.m. Sept. 24 in the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation Auditorium in the school’s Michael Hooker Research Center.
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UNC joins international study of brain laser therapy for stroke E-mail
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Researchers at University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill have joined a large international study to determine the effectiveness of near-infrared laser light therapy delivered to the brain within 24 hours of a stroke.
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