UNC School of Medicine News

• A Blessing to Many: Erick's Story
  Erick Gomez-Fuentes was born with "Prune Belly Syndrome," a defect that occurs once in every 40,000 births. This video tells his story.
• Five tips for surviving the holidays
  Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz, an expert in anxiety disorders and professor of psychiatry and psychology in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine and College of Arts & Sciences, offers five tips for coping with holiday-related stress.
• Don’t add an ER visit to your holiday plans
  UNC emergency physician Abhi Mehrotra, M.D., explains how you can avoid the most common injuries that land people in a hospital emergency department during the four-day Thanksgiving holiday period.
• Viagra for women? Drug developed as antidepressant effective in treating low libido
  Pooled results from three separate clinical trials of flibanserin, a drug originally created as an antidepressant, show it is effective in treating women with acquired hypoactive sexual desire disorder. These trials were the first ever to test a therapy that works at the level of the brain to enhance libido in women reporting low sexual desire.
• UNC maternal-fetal medicine leads team in EXIT delivery
  A baby was delivered at UNC Hospitals on Thursday, Nov. 12, via an EXIT (ex utero intrapartum fetal treatment) procedure. A rare occurrence anywhere, it was the third EXIT procedure performed at UNC Hospitals since 2003.

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