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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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Two UNC scientists named Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation grantees E-mail
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
William Kim, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, and C. Ryan Miller, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, were named 2009 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Clinical Investigators.
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Study shows that a combination of common genetic variations can lead to schizophrenia E-mail
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
A multi-national group of investigators, including a scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has discovered that nearly a third of the genetic basis of schizophrenia may be attributed to the cumulative actions of thousands of common genetic variants. The effects of each of these genetic changes, innocuous on its own, add up to a significant risk for developing both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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UNC study rewrites textbook on key genetic phenomenon E-mail
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Because females carry two copies of the X chromosome to males’ one X and one Y, they harbor a potentially toxic double dose of the over 1000 genes that reside on the X chromosome.
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EPA renews UNC air quality modeling contract for $5.7 million E-mail
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute for the Environment has been awarded a $5.7 million contract with the Environmental Protection Agency to continue and expand their operation of the Community Modeling and Analysis System (CMAS) center.
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UNC study: Aerobic activity may keep the brain young E-mail
Monday, June 29, 2009
New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine finds that aerobic activity may keep the brain young.

In the study published July 9 in the American Journal of Neuroradiology, physically active elderly people showed healthier cerebral blood vessels.
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