Peter Gal, Director of Greensboro's Area Health Education Center Pharmacy Education Division, is developing two techniques, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, to assist the clinical pharmacist in the treatment of hospitalized infants and children.
Residents of Madison County are the beneficiaries of a program, Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC), that combines old-fashioned health care with the latest medical technology.
Lowry discusses New Hanover County's efforts to reduce infant mortality and profiles Deborah Covington, director of Wilmington's Area Health Education Center.
Dr. James C. Parke, Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Charlotte Area Health Education Center, has been a part of the effort to create vaccines for children affected with Hib meningitis for twenty years.
UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Dr. J. Stephen Haskill's discovery of the I kappa B gene has the potential to revolutionize research on the immune system and disease.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Kenneth Thorpe discusses his intentions as a new member of President Clinton's health policy transition team.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that \"good\" cancer cells can, by means of intra-tumor communication, effectively prevent \"bad\" cancer cells from spreading. This is a novel approach to cancer treatment.
A work-study program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science is one of the most innovative in the nation. Interns' experience at the EPA library in Research Triangle Park is invaluable.
Freddie Parker, a history student in the Carolina Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, is attempting to uncover information about the days of slavery by analyzing advertisements for runaway slaves.
Doris Betts, whose latest novel, \"Souls Raised from the Dead,\" is set in Orange and Chatham Counties, discusses her job as a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and her fiction writing.
Results of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Poll reveal that the university's research mission is generally recognized as a great benefit to the state.
The Civil War and the period from 1871 to 1875, when the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill closed its doors, shattered the classical curriculum of the antebellum years. Subsequent developments inaugurated the modern research university.