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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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Media invited to orientation for Native Health Initiative interns E-mail
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Media representatives are invited to an orientation for 14 summer interns from across the nation as well as from Nigeria and Denmark who have come to North Carolina to work with American Indian communities on community-led health projects. These five-week Health Justice Internships are a project of the Native Health Initiative, created in 2004 as a partnership between the state’s American Indian communities and health professions students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to address health inequities using “loving service.”
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Psychosocial issues affect HIV/AIDS treatment outcomes: UNC researcher E-mail
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Psychosocial influences such as stress, depression and trauma have been neglected in biomedical and treatment studies involving people infected with HIV, yet they are now known to have significant health impacts on such individuals and the spread of AIDS, according to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientist.
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UNC dental school dean elected to dental education organization's board of directors E-mail
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
John N. Williams, dean of UNC’s School of Dentistry has been elected a vice president of the American Dental Education Association at the organization’s recent 85th annual session and exhibition in Dallas.
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UNC doctor recognized as a "Hero of Emergency Medicine" E-mail
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The American College of Emergency Physicians has recognized Dr. Judith E. Tintinalli, professor and chair emeritus in the department of emergency medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, as a “Hero of Emergency Medicine.”
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Adult stem cells aid fracture healing; UNC study lays groundwork for potential treatments E-mail
Monday, June 16, 2008
video In an approach that could become a new treatment for the 10 to 20 percent of people whose broken bones fail to heal, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown that transplantation of adult stem cells can improve healing of fractures.

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