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CPC Fellow Peggy Bentley named associate director of new Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill has launched an Institute for Global Health and Infectious
Diseases to extend and enhance ongoing research efforts to improve the
lives of people around the world.
The institute, based in the
School of Medicine, will build on the University's current global
health presence in about 50 countries.
Myron S. Cohen, M.D., associate
vice chancellor for global health in the medical school, has been named
institute director. Cohen, th...
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CPC Selected as Study Center to Expand National Children's Study to Rockingham County, NC
The National Institutes of Health selected the Carolina
Population Center (CPC) at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill to be the study center for the National Children's Study in Rockingham
County, NC.
The National Children's Study (NCS) is an unprecedented effort to learn about
and improve children's health in the United
States. The study, which the National
Institutes of Health calls the largest of its kind ever conducted in the U.S.,
will measure the effects o...
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CPC Fellow Jay Kaufman comments on the doctor's role in health care disparities in the News and Observer
White men with heart disease are far more likely to get a simple live-saving treatment than women or black men, two new studies from Duke University show. ... "They have stereotypes about minorities and about women and about old people and young people. We all do," said Jay Kaufman, a UNC-Chapel Hill epidemiologist who studies health-care disparities. Kaufman was not involved in the defibrillator study. "It doesn't mean that physicians are bad people. But physicians are the ones who have to writ...
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CPC Fellow Richard Udry's classic research on baby boomlets appears in news
Aislyn Gleghorn, now 4 weeks old, may find she has a certain fondness for windstorms when she grows up. After all, she was conceived during the great Hanukkah Eve Wind Storm of 2006, which left more than a million Puget Sound residents without electricity — some for days. ... In 1970, J. Richard Udry, then at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina, looked at birth numbers before and after the blackout and found no "boomlet."To read the entire article ("Did last year's wi...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin discusses global overweight and obesity in the news
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"It's a very different world than it was a while back," said Dr.
Barry Popkin, director of the University of North
Carolina's Interdisciplinary Obesity Center. "The bulk of the world is
fat." Even the Mediterranean diet isn't stopping Europeans' expanding
waistlines. In Italy, 42 percent of adults are
overweight and 9 percent are obese, according to the World Health Organization.
In France, 41 percent of adults are
overweight; 11 percent obese.To read the
entire article (“Obesity ...
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CPC Fellow Barry Popkin comments on bottled water in The Chicago Tribune
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"There's not a single drink out there -- from Enviga to SmartWater -- that
has any proof of impact," said nutrition professor Barry
Popkin, who directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Just
because [a nutrient] is in the product doesn't necessarily mean it will impact
you or get in your body. There are all sorts of false labels promising health
benefits.
To read the
entire article (“Bottled elixirs vs. tap . Enhanc...
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