University of North Carolina Chapel Hill News

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded $249,623 to the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science for the Closing the Digital Curation Gap project.

Students from Harvard University won five Rhodes Scholarships and those from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were awarded three, leading the 32 U.S. recipients of the award for 2010.

A prodigious career in newspapers spanning positions from reporter to executive editor to Pulitzer Prize journalism awards juror helped prepare Philadelphia born Lorraine Branham for her present post at the helm of one of America's top journalism schools.

An investigational drug that didn't perform well as an antidepressant appears to slightly boost sexual desire as well as the number of satisfying sexual encounters in women with lagging libidos, a study shows.

Curemark LLC, a drug research and development company focused on the treatment of neurological diseases, announced that the company has begun enrolling patients in Phase III clinical trials for CM-AT, its autism treatment, at three additional clinical trial sites.

Visiting is a big part of the Thanksgiving holiday. But one place you don't want to stop by is the Emergency Department.

A CT scan -- a kind of super X-ray -- provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study suggests.

NC XGR NESBITT BIO BOX, 1ST LD-WRITETHRU A quick look at new Senate Majority Leader Martin Nesbitt, D-Buncombe: Name: Martin L. Nesbitt Jr.

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Blue Water Spa of Raleigh will be a sponsor for The 2009 Jupiter Ball, benefiting science education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Morehead Planetarium and Science Center.

A drug that failed the test as an antidepressant could find a new use as the female "Viagra", say scientists.

Last Thursday was no exception when Professor Elliot Cramer showed his a** in front of an audience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Change of mission, smaller staff for initiative championed by Rep. Price By David N. Bass Carolina Journal RALEIGH - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is trimming back a controversial initiative meant to assist veterans and their families after an internal review found evidence of waste and abuse in the program.

J.E. McNeil remembers well the call she received about a year and a half ago from a doctor at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Predicting the side-effects of a drug is not simple task. The human body has more than 1,500 molecules that are known to be involved in various diseases, and often a drug designed to hit one of these targets will also hit others that have similar structures, causing unintended consequences.

A Salvadoran immigrant, backed by two immigrants' rights organizations, is suing the sheriff's office in Frederick County, Maryland, and federal immigration officials, claiming that she was unconstitutionally interrogated and detained last year because of her Hispanic ethnicity.

The Army's most elite soldiers are teaming with one of North Carolina's top universities to improve training on national security issues.

When cold and flu symptoms begin to appear, most people will wait them out to see if they will go away.

Pay for Performance Reporting Costly for Primary Care Practices Responding to payer requests for quality and performance data can be costly for primary care practices, with estimated costs of implementation ranging from less than $1,000 to $11,100 per practitioner, and maintenance from less than $100 to $4,300 per year.

It has been one year since Barack Obama's presidential election victory. The newest U.S. president has faced political and economic challenges at home and has yet to decide how the United States will handle the international war on terror.