Atmospheric particles that become acidic through exposure to such pollutants as sulfuric acid can lead to vast increases in the formation of secondary organic aerosols, a new study indicates. Such aerosols are major components of the unsightly haze that hangs over cities and oil refineries and even affects otherwise pristine U.S. national parks.
Soy protein enriched with isoflavones appears to have no effect on bone mineral content and bone mineral density in young women, according to a new study. Researchers say the finding will disappoint nutritionists hoping to document benefits from diets containing the nutrients, not to mention the soy industry.
Foreign-owned companies locating businesses in the United States chose North Carolina chiefly because of its quality of life, infrastructure and commercial resources that towns and cities offered to support business expansion, according to a new study.
People who find it hard to lose all the weight they want or that their doctors recommend should take heart, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientist says. New research suggests that losing even modest amounts of weight can pay off in better health.
Despite an increase in the overall supply of pharmacists in the state, the ratio of pharmacists per 10,000 population working in retail settings has declined over the past decade, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows. The result is an imbalance between the growing demand for retail pharmacy services and the tightening supply of such professionals.
Getting Americans to help themselves by changing unhealthy lifestyles -- such as eating poor diets, smoking and being sedentary -- can be a lot harder than pulling teeth, health specialists have learned over the past few decades.
When Dr. William Harmon, James G. Hanes professor in the humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, decides that he -- and the world -- need a new word, he doesn't run to the dictionary or thesaurus as most people do.
Contrary to what some health experts have believed, child abuse is a global problem that is essentially universal rather than one limited chiefly to North America, a first-of-its-kind new report shows.
Acclaimed North Carolina artist Ben Long, perhaps best known for frescoes he has created throughout the state, will be featured in a local exhibition, "Capturing the Essence: Portraits by Ben Long."
But when anxiety grows excessive -- as it does in an estimated 25 percent of U.S. residents sooner or later -- it can significantly reduce one's quality of life, and in the cases of some 20 million Americans at any given time, it reaches levels that may require treatment.
The study showed that a specially created program for patients with breathing-related illnesses improved their lung function only slightly. On the other hand, the effort resulted in more, not fewer, visits to emergency rooms and hospitals.
What caused the "Carroll A. Deering," the pride of Bath, Maine, to run aground on the outermost reaches of the Outer Banks -- and what became of her captain and 10 crew members -- have remained enigmas for more than 80 years. In his new nonfiction novel writer Bland Simpson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill revisits the event and those that followed.
Home may be where the heart is, but it's also where danger lurks, new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill research shows. More than 20 million visits to emergency rooms, doctors' offices and clinics occur because of mishaps there every year.
The award will establish an Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials (IBIM) to investigate and design functional ways of simulating repair mechanisms used by plants, animals and other organisms.
U.S. teen-agers who say they engage in regular religious practices are significantly less likely than their peers to get into legal and other troubles that plague many adolescents, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows.
Cherokee potters Amanda Swimmer, Betty Maney and Davy Arch will demonstrate their once-lost art on Thursday (Sept. 19) at a workshop for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill undergraduates and the public.
In findings they believe are fundamentally important to both biology and medicine, chemists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown experimentally for the first time that proteins can behave differently inside cells than when taken out of those cells and studied in test tubes.
In decades past, real estate agents had much useful information at their fingertips about homes they and other agents were trying to sell. Such information was proprietary, however, and not available to homebuyers unless agents chose to share it.
This summer, the Bureau of National Affairs published the eighth edition of "Supreme Court Practice," which Chief Justice William Rehnquist said most lawyers consider the legal "bible" of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dr. Oliver Smithies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been selected to receive the 2002 Massry Prize for pioneering research on how genes affect health and illness in humans and other mammals.
The largest epidemiologic study ever conducted in North America of a childhood nervous system cancer known as neuroblastoma suggests women who take multivitamins during pregnancy can cut their children's risk of the tumor by 30 percent to 40 percent.
While not faring so well as it has in recent years, the U.S. economy remains in decent shape and will perform better this year than the economies of Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Canada, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill business expert says.
Eight young U.S. football players, including seven in high school and one playing in a Pop Warner league, died last year as a direct result of injuries suffered on the field, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows. Three other players died of heatstroke during the 2001 season, and 12 others died in ways not directly tied to the game but more from natural causes provoked by vigorous exercise.
A new federally funded technical assistance organization has begun a multi-year effort to help states streamline and strengthen service systems for children with disabilities.
Early, widespread diagnosis of acute infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is not only possible but also feasible -- by pooling blood samples from people being screened for HIV and conducting nucleic acid tests on those grouped specimens, a new study shows.
Each year, the U.S. government distributes more than 14,500 information products to each of its federal depository libraries. Ridley Kessler, assistant head of the reference department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries, has made it his life's work to make that information accessible to the citizens of North Carolina.
Two drugs -- one already approved by the Food and Drug Administration and one pending approval -- appear to reduce women's chances of developing breast cancer, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and RTI International study concludes. Women who think they might be at risk of the life-threatening illness should discuss with their physicians if they should begin taking the drugs routinely, scientists say.
President George W. Bush will honor a young University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientist July 12 as one of the Presidential Early Career Award winners for 2002.
Coastal fish kills and a potential threat to public health previously linked to the single-celled marine creature Pfiesteria piscicida may be a case of mistaken identity.
Overall, 26 percent of U.S. men and 28 percent of U.S. women already are obese by about age 36, according to a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study of adult weight gain among different ethnic groups, races and sexes.
The recommended upper limit of a healthy body mass index (BMI) -- the term doctors and others use to indicate how much people weigh for how tall they are -- might need to be revised downward to protect people from becoming glucose intolerant or developing type 2 diabetes, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study suggests.
The emperor and the prime minister of Japan honored Dr. Kunihiko Suzuki, professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, and five other scholars of Japanese ancestry at a special ceremony in Tokyo Monday (June 10).
A federal-state health program partnership called N.C. Health Choice has significantly improved access to dental care for children from low-income families across the state, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows.
Anemia, a condition arising when the blood contains too few red cells and hence not enough of the oxygen-carrying pigment known as hemoglobin, appears to be an under-appreciated contributor to problems associated with congestive heart failure, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill cardiologist says.
Across the state and the nation, managers of outdoor dramas that bring these historic events to life believe that this year's surge in patriotism will bring them big audiences this summer -- patriotism, plus the sort of economic downturn that usually means more people take shorter, cheaper vacations closer to home.
Scientifically designed substance abuse prevention programs based on research showing what works and what doesn't are likely to be much more effective in keeping children off tobacco, alcohol and drugs than other programs not based on such evidence, a new study suggests.
After graduating from Southern High School, Brandie Bailey plans to pursue a college degree in sports medicine. She'll be armed with a $10,000 scholarship she earned through a six-year commitment to Durham Scholars, a program begun in 1995 that targets at-risk youth from northeast Durham's most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.
A scientific collaboration based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has broken new ground for future drug design and development for brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia.
About 10 years ago, Dr. Robert Golden and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill colleagues discovered an important new clue to the cause of depression, one that other researchers eventually confirmed. They found that depressed people showed a blunted hormonal response to a test he developed that boosts serotonin, an important neurotransmitter chemical in the brain.
Screening people for depression during regular primary care visits to doctors can improve recovery from that debilitating illness if systems are in place to assure accurate diagnosis, effective treatment and follow-up, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Research Triangle Institute study concludes.
Between 1977 and 1996, all age groups across the country -- not just children and young adults -- boosted their energy intake by eating higher energy foods such as soft drinks and pizza, a trend responsible for the growing obesity epidemic, authors of a new study say.
During the deadly 1906 Atlanta race riots -- when future NAACP leader and writer Walter White was just 13 years old -- an angry white mob marched on his home and would have destroyed it if some of his family's black neighbors had not armed themselves with guns and dispersed the rioters.
Trihalomethanes -- byproducts of interaction between chlorine used to disinfect water and organic matter found in raw water -- increase significantly in the bloodstream after showering, a new study shows. Public health experts suspect the chemicals may boost the risk of cancer and contribute to reproductive problems such as miscarriage.
Physicians and clinical scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have enlisted colleagues around the nation to establish the first disease registry for an important but not well-publicized illness called the antiphospholipid syndrome.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has become the first major, highly selective U.S. university to eliminate its binding early decision admission plan, starting with freshmen applying for fall 2003 admission.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine's Intrah program is providing emergency assistance to West Bank and Gaza civilians for the next six months through the Maram project, officials said.
On Oct. 2, millions of parents, children and community leaders from the United States and 19 other countries will walk to school together in celebration of Walk to School Day. Last year, an estimated 400,000 Americans representing 47 states participated, and more than 2 million walkers from nine countries took part -- and more are expected this year.
A professor in the UNC School of Law can talk about the comparisons being made between last week's terrorist attacks and the attack on Pearl Harbor. He can speak about the civil rights of Arab and Muslim Americans and has just written a book, "Free To Die For Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II."
A professor of anthropology specializes in the study of war and its impact on society in the United States and abroad. Topics to discuss include how past wars have shaped the world and affected cultures, economies and politics.
The following additional University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professors are available to the media for analysis and commentary on Tuesday's (Sept. 11) tragic events and the aftermath.
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