A study conducted by UNC's School of Medicine has shown that a surprisingly large number of people do not trust doctors and medical research.
When asked if they feared being used as experimental "guinea pigs" without their consent, researchers found that 52 percent of whites and a resounding 80 percent of blacks were not trusting of their medical providers.
Even with factors such as education and income controlled, the public was still suspicious and distrusting toward medicine and medicinal research.
The study used data collected from 909 individuals in 1997, and the results of the study and a report on those results can be found in the Nov. 26 edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine, a journal published by the American Medical Association.
Early Education Yields Big Results for Children
A new study conducted at UNC seems to confirm that taxpayers are indeed getting their money's worth when it comes to education.
The study claims that for every dollar spent on early education programs such as Head Start and the Abecedarian Early Childhood Intervention Project, taxpayers can expect a return of four times that amount.
The study is based on a long-term project run from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at UNC, which began in the 1970s.
