In this short documentary by Retro Report and Scientific American, Ilona Jaspers, PhD, director of the UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, is a featured research expert in the debate about electronic ...
Nov 19, 2020
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In a controlled study of smokers, nonsmokers, and e-cigarette users, University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers found that e-cigarette users exhibited significantly altered immune responses to a model of ...
Nov 12, 2020
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UNC-Chapel Hill researchers and collaborators including the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program and Community Care of North Carolina created a digital intervention using electronic health records to ...
Oct 29, 2020
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University of North Carolina School of Medicine scientists have made a curious discovery about a well-known human protein that helps the immune system fight viral infections. The lab of Stan Lemon MD, and colleagues found ...
Oct 22, 2020
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Eosinophilic gastritis and duodenitis are inflammatory diseases characterized by high levels of eosinophils and mast cells (immune system cells) in the stomach and duodenum. These disorders are often underdiagnosed and symptoms ...
Oct 22, 2020
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EIP Pharma announced on October 6 that a phase 2 study in patients with mild-to-moderate Lewy body dementia (LBD) demonstrated an improvement in cognition as assessed by the Neuropsychological Test Battery (NTB). In the double-blind ...
Oct 15, 2020
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The dentate gyrus is part of the hippocampus, an area of the brain that plays a critical role in memory formation, and contains neural stem cells that develop into other cell types, such as granule cells, mossy cells, and ...
Sep 24, 2020
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The UNC School of Medicine laboratory of Camille Ehre, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, produced striking images in respiratory tract cultures of the infectious form of the SARS-CoV-2 virus produced by infected respiratory ...
Sep 3, 2020
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An analysis recently published in the British Medical Journal argues for increased implementation of "food is medicine" interventions in the health care system. The article was co-authored by Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, assistant ...
Aug 25, 2020
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Egg oral immunotherapy (egg OIT) could be a better treatment option for children allergic to eggs compared to Baked Egg (BE) Therapy, according to a new study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. UNC School ...
Jun 25, 2020
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