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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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Breastfeeding reduces risk of breast cancer in some women E-mail
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
According to a new study, women with a family history of breast cancer were 59 percent less likely to develop breast cancer themselves if they breastfed their children.
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UNC researchers decode structure of an entire HIV genome E-mail
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
The structure of an entire HIV genome has been decoded for the first time by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The results have widespread implications for understanding the strategies that viruses, like the one that causes AIDS, use to infect humans.
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Khmer Rouge trials offer baseline study for mental health impact to a society of war crimes tribunal E-mail
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
As leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime testify in a human rights tribunal, in harrowing detail, for the killing of more than a million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979 a central medical question remains unanswered: will the trials help a society heal or exacerbate the lingering affects of widespread trauma?
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Groundbreaking study shows exercise benefits leukemia patients E-mail
Monday, August 03, 2009
One of the most bothersome symptoms of leukemia is extreme fatigue, and asking these patients to exercise doesn’t sound like a way to help them feel better.

A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill indicates that exercise may be a great way to do just that, combating the debilitating fatigue that these patients experience. Read more...
 
UNC awarded $3.5 million to study HIV transmission prevention among newly infected E-mail
Thursday, July 30, 2009
A team of researchers from the UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases has received a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study HIV prevention methods among people with acute HIV infection (AHI).
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