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President Obama comes to rally in Raleigh today, a town-hall venue to boost support for health care reform.
Stephanie Crayton and I will be there. Steph will man the Flip Cam and post video this afternoon. I’ll be live Tweeting, as appropriate. Hey, if someone on the dais can Tweet during the inauguration, [...]
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The local newspaper has stopped reporting on the U.S. News & World Report “Best of” series, like last week’s “Best Hospitals.” That’s certainly a bright note coming from the journalism dirge.
The rankings are highly subjective. They’re not timely, accurate measures of care. They’re gimmicks. They don’t matter. Yet hospitals that say these [...]
Stephanie wrote this…
Hard to believe that it was two weeks ago when I last saw Martez Holland. The 27-year-old is the only survivor of a fireworks explosion on Ocracoke Island. Two weeks ago, he wanted to share his story by talking with local media. He wanted to assure family and friends that are praying for [...]
Clinton wrote this …
When the Rachel Ray Show needed an eating disorders expert, whom should they call but UNC’s own Cynthia Bulik.
Cindy taped the show way back and it aired today, featuring a young woman who began with good intentions to limit her diet to healthy foods. The problem began her freshman year in college. [...]
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Francis Collins gave a great interview in the early 1990s when he described the Human Genome Project to Charlie Gibson on Good Morning America. If each piece of DNA were a letter, Collins said, there would be millions, and the human genome would fill enough books to reach [...]
Tom wrote this …
We’ve written before in this space about how all of us are frequently urged to get screened for various forms of cancer.
But when is cancer screening clearly not a good idea? One example is ovarian cancer screening for women with no identifiable risk factors for the disease, according to UNC’s Dr. Daniel [...]
Clinton wrote this …
As a kid I loved the 4th of July for one reason — I got to play with fireworks. The antics my brother and I pulled were, well, with 30 years of hindsight, dumb, and we’re lucky we have all our digits.
Now I’ll remember the 4th for a [...]
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