With classes starting in less than a month, questions remain about how the University will handle contact tracing for students who come into contact with a COVID-19-infected person.
Planning a visit to the Writing and Learning Centers? Interested in attending CUAB events? Here's how 10 services on campus are planning to welcome students in the fall.
The Wellness Alliance provides a variety of alternative medicinal treatments to the communities of Carrboro and Chapel Hill.
Feeling a little gym-timidated? Worry not, we have the guide to UNC's gym and fitness centers to help you adjust your workout schedule while transitioning to campus.
Dr. Saira Sheikh, director of the UNC Rheumatology Lupus Clinic, said the first step allergy sufferers should take is to make an appointment with an allergist immunologist to see what they are allergic to.
HPV is the most common STI and has the capability to cause six cancers. Despite easy access for prevention, vaccination rates fall short of desired goal.
Some see e-cigarettes as a possible way to help smokers quit, while other believe they have under-researched health effects and are too popular among teens. But a new study has discovered many chemical compounds that vapers ingest when using popular flavors.
UNC is beating North Carolina State University in a nationwide competition run by Alana’s Foundation to vaccinate the most people by Dec. 7.
An anonymous UNC graduate shared her harrowing story of being in an abusive relationship that ended with her diagnosis with an incurable STI. The idea of full disclosure when it comes to STDs is not always an easy subject to bring up to a new partner, especially if open communication isn't strong. But the reality is that the law can be applied in certain scenarios when STI cases are not reported. That's why UNC and other agencies in Chapel Hill are advertising resources so students can know the facts and avoid getting hurt, both emotionally and physically.
Campus Health Services has a new way to solve your under-the-weather feeling of "pins and needles." The solution is... pins and needles! Acupuncture is a great way to relieve the stress from midterms and benefit your mental health, so Campus Health hopes you'll keep this innovative option in mind.
Researchers in the Triangle are concerned about the risks that e-cigarettes pose to adolescents, and two UNC students give their perspectives on how one of the most popular e-cigarettes has affected them.
In recent years, on-campus mental health services have been under scrutiny by some student groups. At the same time, campus health services that offer mental health counseling have looked to change their organization. Is there a middle ground?
It is a well-known fact that campus is home to some shitty bathrooms (no pun intended). Long study sessions in Davis Library are not made any easier by bathrooms with missing or broken stall doors, faucets that blast you with jets of water and overflowing trashcans. That said there are some great bathrooms on campus. This guide should help you find them by pointing out a few of the best. Just a reminder that these views are my own and do not represent those of The Daily Tar Heel.
Though the practice has fallen in and out of popularity in the U.S. as medicine has become increasingly professionalized, midwives today deliver about 15 percent of births at UNC Hospitals. “There’s a lot more interest today in women to have more say in their healthcare and more involvement in their labor and pregnancy,” said Kathy Higgins, the division director of midwifery services in the UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. “For midwives, that is their basic philosophy, in providing education and supporting them in their desires for their pregnancy and birthing experience.”
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an HIV prevention drug that is taken daily as a pill. While it is currently not well known, PrEP reduces the risk of HIV AIDS by 92 percent for those at risk and is on the path to save thousands of people.
Almost 50 years ago, the first intrauterine device was introduced, and we know it now as the pill. For UNC students today, Women’s Health Services offers four different IUDs and a variety of other long term and short term reversible contraceptive services, and students are taking advantage of it.
The California Senate has passed a bill that would require universities in the state to provide medication-based abortion through student health centers. UC Berkeley students are joining the fight to expand these services. But how does expanding access to abortions compare to UNC's family planning options?
In the first official debate of the campaign season, the Greek Student Body hosted the two student body president candidates, juniors Savannah Putnam and Garima Tomar, two days before the election on Tuesday.
This year's strain of the flu is one of the worst, affecting over 150 people last week in the UNC Healthcare system alone.
Apple and UNC Health Care have paired up to provide health records to patients.
