E-cigarette use has become increasingly common over the past several years, and some smokers have even employed the flavored vapor in the hopes that it might help them quit, or at least mitigate the negative health consequences ...
Sep 11, 2017
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(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine today published exciting new findings in the hunt for a better treatment for macular degeneration. In studies using mice, a class of drugs ...
Sep 10, 2013
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A marijuana plant extract, also known as cannabidiol (CBD), is being commonly used to improve anxiety, sleep problems, pain, and many other neurological conditions. Now UNC School of Medicine researchers show it may alleviate ...
Sep 18, 2019
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Researchers at UNC School of Medicine found almost one in ten North Carolina adolescents reported ever vaping cannabis or marijuana. The researchers also found strong associations between the use of certain types of tobacco ...
Jun 28, 2019
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What is the connection between autism and addiction? Why are individuals with autism more likely to develop a substance use disorder than the general population?
Oct 17, 2017
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In a step toward more targeted treatments for cancer patients, UNC School of Medicine and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have demonstrated how a genetic mutation drives the most common type of lymphoma ...
May 4, 2016
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Vaping is widely assumed to be safer than cigarette smoking, but scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have uncovered evidence suggesting that vaping promotes the same cellular responses found ...
Aug 22, 2019
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The human immune system is a double-edged sword. While it is finely adapted to fighting potentially deadly viruses, such as the H1N1 influenza, the mechanisms it uses to fight pathogens can have negative effects such ...
Jun 28, 2011
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UNC scientists have demonstrated for the first time how a critical gene associated with a type of childhood cancer alters the way DNA is packaged in cells and leads to cancer. Their laboratory discovery could result in the ...
Nov 18, 2011
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Bleeding can happen during surgery, after trauma, or even spontaneously. And when it does, blood cells called platelets rush in to stick to the injured blood vessels and stop bleeding as quickly as possible. Or at least that's ...
Dec 12, 2019
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