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UNC Health Care’s national reputation for cutting-edge research, quality patient care and excellent training of young professionals generates considerable attention from the news media. All media requests for interviews, filming and information gathering are facilitated by UNC Health Care’s Public Affairs and Marketing Department. If you are a member of the media call us at (919) 966-2860 with your request.

UNC Health Care in the News

At Risk: Arthritis May Be Tied to Different Leg Lengths
The New York Times
“We can’t say for sure whether a leg length difference of about two centimeters is actually going to cause you to get arthritis,” said the lead author of the study, Dr. Joanne M. Jordan of the Thurston Arthritis Research Center at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
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With model's death, eating disorders are again in spotlight
International Herald Tribune
Many researchers in the field use the metaphor of a gun to explain what leads to the onset of an eating disorder. According to this description, first coined by Dr. Cynthia Bulik of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, genes load the gun and the environment pulls the trigger.
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Depression in Women Could Be Linked To Hormonal Changes
WRAL TV-5
Then, she went to UNC Hospitals psychiatrist Dr. David Rubinow, who created the hospital's Mood Disorders Clinic modeled after a clinic he started with the National Institutes of Health 25 years ago.
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