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UNC Hospitals are getting an upgrade with new surgical tower

The tower will be the single largest building on the UNC Hospitals campus at 335,000 sq. ft.

#CoupleGoals: This UNC-Duke doctor couple is working to help the children of Malawi

When forces from UNC and Duke come together, some good can be achieved in the world. David and Elizabeth Fitzgerald, a married doctor couple, prove this.

Dr. Bill Roper will step down as UNC Health Care CEO, medical school dean in May 2019

After almost 15 productive years as the CEO of UNC Health Care and dean of the UNC School of Medicine, Dr. Bill Roper plans to move back "behind the scenes" as a faculty member in the pediatrics department.

UNC's Blood Donation Center wants you to lend an arm

Due to the lack of students on campus, the UNC Blood Donation Center is in desperate need of platelet donations over the summer.

Most universities don’t provide on-site abortions – but that could soon change

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? 

UNC Health Care and Apple pair up for new health app

Apple and UNC Health Care have paired up to provide health records to patients. 

UNC's Family Medicine Center takes an alternative approach to high-risk patients

Starting in April, the UNC Family Medicine Center will be prescribing a new kind of medicine to a select group of low-income, high-risk patients. 

At UNC, medical school teaches future physicians how to properly prescribe opioids

 As an unprecedented epidemic of opioid use and overprescription is rippling throughout the United States, UNC's Department of Pharmacology in the School of Medicine is tasked with training future physicians proper prescription practices.     

Combatting lack of diversity in STEM fields means boot camp and virtual degree programs

A Georgetown University study discovered the underrepresentation of black students in lucrative  STEM fields, but the best solution offered was “careful career planning.”  At UNC, Dr. Javed Mostafa has a better plan: boot camp. 

Eating a dozen of doughnuts? Easy. Running 5 miles after? Not so much.

UNC, get ready for a sugar rush like no other. 

UNC Health Care proposes new facilities

UNC Health care has proposed a concept plan to the Town of Chapel Hill for the redevelopment of University-owned property along highway 15-501 near I-40 and the entrance of Chapel Hill. 

UNC Hospital volunteers use cuddling to calm infants

BOG member questions legality of UNC Health Care merger

The potential partnership between UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare System has prompted skepticism from a UNC Board of Governors member over the legality of the merge. 

Midnight lunches and Chapel Hill's third shift

When Jessica Toney texts her boyfriend during her "lunch break," he's often going to sleep.  Toney, a UNC senior who works midnight shifts in a lab at the UNC Medical Center every other weekend, has her routine down to a science. After a full day of classes, she eats a large bowl of pasta and takes a nap for five hours before heading into work.   “I'm suddenly left alone in the world,” she said. “Everyone's asleep or getting back from their parties and I'm still going strong at work — sometimes I just post to my Snapchat story just to feel like I'm not alone, even though I know none of them will see it until the morning.”

UNC settles anti-trust lawsuit, Duke suit pending

A partial settlement of a lawsuit against UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University filed in 2015 was granted initial approval by a federal judge in October.

Undocumented immigrants balance fears of deportation with seeking medical treatment

Like many 9-year-olds, Cynthia Salazar asked for her father when she woke up from her appendicitis surgery in May. But her father, who was waiting below in the UNC hospital parking lot, worried that if he visited his daughter, he could risk being identified as undocumented. 

'Like a friend helping a friend': Community clinics prepare for cuts as federal funding stalls

Community clinics across the country will be forced to cut back next year after Congress failed to pass legislation to extend federal funding to community health centers by a Sept. 30 deadline. Across North Carolina 284,000 patients like Smith could lose access to care, according to estimates from the National Association for Community Health Centers. 

CFTK races to donate money to UNC children's hospital

Bright and early on Sunday morning, Tar Heels of all ages gathered around the Old Well to run the sixth annual Kilometers For The Kids race. 

Walk for Hope raises awareness for mental illness and funds for UNC Psychiatry

Thousands gathered in Raleigh on Sunday to participate in the Thad and Alice Eure Walk for Hope, which supports individuals with mental illness.

Local mascots lift spirits as they twist for 36 seconds

Side by side, Ramses and other mascots did the twist for 36 seconds with kids in the playroom of UNC Children’s Hospital. Thirty-six represents the number of children diagnosed with cancer every day.