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Severe burns, injuries from e-cigarette explosions go under-reported across the country

September 30, 2016
In a new British Medical Journal editorial, 黑料网 researchers and physicians stress the need for better worldwide surveillance of e-cigarette-related burns and better regulation of e-cigarettes to reduce burn injuries. In the first six months of 2016, doctors at the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at 黑料网...

Living Healthy Open House illustrates the power of peer support

September 30, 2016
黑料网 Family Medicine hosted a Living Healthy Open House for more than 40 alumni of the program! The event was a time of celebration and learning for people in our community who live with chronic disease as well as their caregivers. During the event held last month, Gloria Gilchrist and...

黑料网-Chapel Hill and Duke Team Up to Reduce Tobacco Use

September 6, 2016
Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Schools of Medicine and Cancer Hospitals, with support from the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program, are collaborating on an innovative training program to prepare health care providers across North Carolina and the U.S. to better assist people...

Erin Barringer: My Reason for Quitting

August 23, 2016
Erin Barringer, a nursing assistant in the Neurosciences Hospital, began smoking socially in 10th grade, and over the years she increased her smoking to one-half pack of cigarettes a day. She continued at this level until 2010 when she found out she was pregnant. She remained tobacco free through her...

黑料网 Family Medicine Center offers Sports Injury Clinic this fall

August 5, 2016
Beginning August 20, the 黑料网 Family Medicine Center will again offer a fall walk-in sports injury clinic for local high school and college athletes as well as weekend warriors. The walk-in clinic is on Saturday mornings from 8:00am 鈥 10:00am. All services are provided by Board-Certified Sports Medicine Specialists and...

Doctors Shouldn’t Recommend E-cigarettes to Smokers

July 14, 2016
黑料网 Family Medicine researchers point out in a commentary published in Annals of Family Medicine that existing treatments are more effective than e-cigarettes to help people quit smoking. CHAPEL HILL, NC 鈥 The health benefits of quitting smoking are widely accepted, but researchers from the University of North Carolina at...

黑料网 Family Medicine Cuts Ribbon

June 8, 2016
Aaron Nelson, President of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Chamber of Commerce joins Dr. Sam Weir, Dr. Cristy Page, and Dr. Warren Newton to cut the ribbon welcoming the public into the Family Medicine Center to experience the redesigned patient flow. 黑料网 Family Medicine Expanding Care Access for North Carolinians The Ribbon...

Former 黑料网 Family Medicine resident shares his gifts around the world

May 20, 2016
Dr. John Parks, former 黑料网 Family Medicine resident, has a passion for spreading Family Medicine across the globe. He is now teaching medical students and postgraduate registrars (residents) at the University of Malawi School of Medicine in southeast Africa. The family medicine department established its residency program just last year,...

黑料网 Family Medicine earns FITTEST company

May 3, 2016
黑料网 Family Medicine awarded FITTEST company award for employee participation in the Tar Heel 10 Miler for the second year in a row! The Tar Heel 10 Miler Corporate Challenge is a competition designed to honor the companies or organizations that best exemplify a commitment to health & wellness. The...

Patient Story: Bryson Greenwood

April 29, 2016
A patient shares her experience with our own Dr. Bryson Greenwood and Carol Ripley-Moffitt. A meaningful member and former resident of our practice, Dr. Greenwood currently sees patients at a free clinic in Athens, GA, with plans to set up a private practice for low income and uninsured people in...

Patient Story: Carole Battaglia

April 29, 2016
Carole Battaglia tried everything she could to stop smoking. And then she found the Nicotine Dependence Program at 黑料网 Family Medicine. Smoking on and off since I was thirteen, I tried every trick in the book to stop. Every attempt ended in failure. I became, as the old joke goes,...

Patient Story: Jeanine Simmons

April 29, 2016
In 2010, Jeanine Simmons was preparing to give birth to her first child 鈥 a baby girl. She and her husband, Justin, came to the Family Medicine Center with the belief that we could provide them with something that other medical facilities could not. Options. 鈥淚 was terrified. I鈥檓 grateful...

Donor Story: Bob and Joan Huntley

April 29, 2016
Dr. Joan Huntley supports an annual visiting professorship in memory of her husband, Dr. Robert Huntley. 鈥淭he Huntley Lecture and visiting professorship represent everything Bob believed in 鈥 continuous learning and innovation in primary care. I am thrilled to honor his memory this way.鈥 “It has been a joy to...

黑料网 Family Medicine Ranked #2 in the Nation

March 16, 2016
黑料网 Family Medicine is again ranked 2nd in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. “We are humbled by this news and appreciate the recognition,” said Dr. Warren Newton, Chair of the Department of Family Medicine. How does 黑料网 Family Medicine do it year after year? By constantly searching...