More U.S. hospitals are getting a jump on Code Blue situations – when person’s heart or lungs, or both, stop working – by establishing what are called “rapid response teams.” As these teams develop, they mainly have been attending to adult patients. read more
Students, staff and faculty are looking for ways to assist those who have been affected by Hurricane Katrina, both on campus and off. read more
A textile town pulling through hard times and beauty parlors doling out health information were among the highlights of this year’s Tar Heel Bus Tour. read more
The 2005 Dance Marathon raised nearly $184,872 in late February to benefit the N.C. Children’s Hospital. read more
John Edwards ’77 (JD), North Carolina’s former U.S. senator and the Democratic Party’s 2004 vice presidential candidate, will lead a new center being launched by Carolina to seek solutions to poverty. The Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity… read more
UNC’s Interfraternity Council will host a dinner on Sunday, Feb. 13, to benefit people who suffered losses in the December tsunamis. read more
Chancellor James Moeser has spent much of the summer traveling throughout North Carolina as part of the first “Carolina Connects” tour, reminding North Carolinians how UNC serves the state at large. read more
UNC’s men’s basketball program delivered three checks in late June totaling $36,000 to the Interfaith Council Homeless Shelter on Rosemary Street, the Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill and UNC’s Student Aid Fund. read more
Raising awareness of the health hazards of secondhand smoke is the goal of a new media campaign being undertaken by UNC in partnership with local programs in two North Carolina counties in opposite ends of the state – Buncombe in the west and Chowan… read more
A new clinical cancer hospital for UNC inched closer to reality in mid-June when the N.C. House of Representatives voted to pay for it in part with money from health trust funds. read more