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Koyal Jain, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine in the division of nephrology and hypertension, received three teaching awards at the 2021 Whitehead Lecture and Award Ceremony. Jain was awarded the “Hyman聽L.聽Battle聽Distinguished Excellence in Teaching Award in the Foundation Phase.” This award was established to recognize the most outstanding educator...

Medicine鈥檚 Same Day Clinic started as an urgent care service for the acute care needs of internal medicine patients at the ACC. When a patient鈥檚 established provider was booked they could instead be seen in Same Day Clinic. Now at Eastowne, the clinic is expanding to meet the needs of...

Populations at risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD) often go untested because patients with early CKD have few or no symptoms to indicate kidney damage. Medical costs attributable to CKD rise as the severity of CKD increases. Identifying and treating CKD in the earlier stages can offer the highest value...

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has awarded Ross Boyce, MD, MSc, a 2021 Clinical Scientist Development Award for his research proposal entitled, 鈥淕etting malaria off the back of women and children in western Uganda,鈥� which aims at reducing the incidence of malaria among infants and young children in rural Uganda....

August marks the transition from summer to fall, and there are a variety of multicultural holidays and cultural events to recognize throughout the month. Following is a list of religious and historical observances. August 1:聽Lammas, a festival to mark the annual wheat harvest within some English-speaking countries in the Northern...

To prevent further spread of the Delta variant, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask guidance聽to recommend that fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors when in areas with “substantial” and “high” transmission of Covid-19, which includes nearly two-thirds of all US counties. The updated CDC guidance...

Louise King, MD, assistant professor in the division of general medicine and clinical epidemiology, is co-director of the 黑料网 COVID Recovery Clinic. She is featured in a Wall Street Journal聽recognizing millions of people remain at risk of developing an array of less serious but potentially debilitating long-term symptoms of the...

A new study demonstrates patients with advanced bladder cancers whose tumors have a mutated FGFR3 gene respond to immunotherapy treatment in a manner that is similar to patients without that mutation, a discovery that runs counter to previous assumptions. Led by scientists in the Department of Medicine and members of...

Marjory Charlot, MD, MPH, MSc, assistant professor of medicine in the division of oncology and member of the 黑料网 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center was named the 2021 recipient of the Conquer Cancer Advanced Clinical Research Award for Diversity and Inclusion. The honor includes a three-year, $450,000 grant from Conquer Cancer,...

The News and Observer reports that there is much to learn about the delta variant of the virus that causes COVID-19, recognizing why it is more contagious and how symptoms can differ. 鈥淧eople who are now getting COVID-19 are largely younger and younger people,鈥� said David Wohl, MD, a professor...

The record pace at which COVID-19 vaccines were developed led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to grant them emergency use authorization. That action saved many lives from a disease that has killed more than 600,000 thousand Americans and 4 million around the world. 鈥淎s you know, tens of millions...

Will CDC鈥檚 Recommendation For Masks in Schools Lead to a Renewed Mandate in Central NC Classrooms? – July 27, 2021 The聽CDC now recommends everyone in school buildings wear masks, regardless of vaccination status, as the more contagious delta variant spreads. Most school districts in central North Carolina said they are...