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Heat-related deaths in high school football players dip


With summer now in full swing and football training sessions kicking into gear, the latest annual report serves as a stark reminder of the precautions that coaches – and players – need to take when practicing and playing in the heat. read more

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Chemist Papoian receives Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award E-mail
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Garegin Papoian, Ph.D., an assistant professor of chemistry in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, has received a national award for research and teaching given to outstanding young faculty in the chemical sciences.
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Drug appears to offer speedier relief from depression E-mail
Monday, May 05, 2008
mic Who: Dr. Richard Weisler, adjunct professor of psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
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Mental disorders in parents linked to autism in children E-mail
Monday, May 05, 2008
Parents of children with autism were roughly twice as likely to have been hospitalized for a mental disorder, such as schizophrenia, than parents of other children, according to an analysis of Swedish birth and hospital records by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher and colleagues in the U.S. and Europe.
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Jonathan Oberlander on health care and the economy E-mail
Friday, May 02, 2008
video As the presidential election nears, and the democratic primary hits full speed, health care – it’s growing costs and looming problems – weighs on the minds of voters. Jonathan Oberlander, Ph.D., associate professor of Social Medicine in UNC’s School of Medicine and associate professor of health policy and administration in the School of Public Health, breaks down the candidates’ health care plans and explains how health care effects our economy.
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More than words: childbirth training change improves safety, cuts unnecessary procedures E-mail
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Relatively inexpensive interventions were effective in helping health care providers in Latin America improve the way they treat mothers during labor and delivery, reducing bleeding and sometimes saving lives of women during childbirth, according to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health study released today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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