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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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Messenger RNA with FLASH E-mail
Thursday, October 22, 2009
A study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified a key player in a molecular process essential for DNA replication within cells.

The new findings highlight a protein called FLASH, already shown to play a role in initiating apoptosis, or programmed cell death.  Apoptosis is a normal biochemical response that occurs when a cell is damaged beyond repair after viral infection or accumulation of mutations that could lead to uncontrolled cellular proliferation, or cancer.  Apoptosis is also crucial to the developing embryo through selective cell death, which allows proper differentiation of physical structures, such as fingers and toes. For full release