UNC, Wake Forest scholars work to reduce crimes against Hispanics in North Carolina
CHAPEL HILL Crimes against Hispanics -- mostly hard-working people who come to North Carolina trying to improve life for their families and themselves -- jumped as much as 500 percent between 1993 and 1998, according to some estimates. ......Now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University have teamed up to closely examine why Hispanics, whose percen...Expensive new meds increase drug expenditures in the North Carolina Medicaid program
As states continue to struggle to find ways to control Medicaid costs, a new study published in the September/October issue of Annals of Family Medicine finds that an increase in the number of prescriptions for new and more expensive medications resulted in a significant rise in drug costs in one state's Medicaid program.... Analyzing claims for more than 1,204,000 North Carolina Medicaid enrolle...Almost half of rural North Carolina Adults report using 'home remedies'
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Almost half of the adults in rural western North Carolina use home remedies, not only for specific ailments but also to enhance their mental health and general well-being, according a report by a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher and his colleagues in the current issue of Complementary Health Practice Review.... ...Remedies involving honey, lemon, vineg...North Carolina researcher receives award for new ant-HIV drug that simplifies treatment regime
.Susan Daluge of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, will be honored on December 8 by the world's largest scientific society for her contributions to the development of a new anti-HIV drug that can dramatically simplify treatment. She will receive one of four 2000 Industrial Innovation Awards at the American Chemical Society's Southeast-Southwest Combined Regional Meeting in New Orleans.. .Ziagen incre...It is easy for adolescents to purchase cigarettes illegally in North Carolina
. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - It is easy for adolescents ages 14 and younger to.purchase cigarettes illegally in the state of North Carolina, according to a.recent study published in the October edition of the Journal of Adolescent.Health, by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.. . According to the study, 22.8 percent of middle school students have.smoked within...Hearts N' Parks - an innovative North Carolina program to prevent heart disease launched
. Mallard Creek Recreation Center in Charlotte.kicks off "Hearts N' Parks" program . . Hearts N' Parks Y2K, an innovative program designed to promote the.adoption of heart healthy behaviors among North Carolina children and their.families, will be launched at a special media event in Charlotte on Thursday,.July 15th, beginning at 11:00 a.m. The launch will demonstrate heart health.lesson.... . CHAPEL HILL--Doctors usually resuscitate extremely.premature babies at birth when they are uncertain about how the infants will.fare or when they don't know parents' wishes, according to a new study. When.parents say in advance what they want done following delivery, doctors tend to.follow those wishes. . Resuscitation of such premature infants generally postpones d...