The clickable links below navigate directly to outside media articles which featured Department of Medicine faculty throughout the month of January.
- Joe Tucker, MD, PhD, and Weiming Tang, PhD, announce a new scholarly exchange program that will give early-career researchers from the U.S. the opportunity to train in China.
- Klara Klein, MD, PhD, led a study showing metformin use does not increase gastrointestinal adverse events during GLP-1RA initiation.
- Edwin Kim, MD, MS, spoke about the history, setbacks and strides of food immunotherapy.
- Clare Mock, MD, joined Becker’s Women’s Leadership Podcast to discuss physician-patient safety, her background and expertise, and more.
- John Batsis, MD, spoke about the risks associated with anti-obesity drugs and was featured on The Chronic Disease of Obesity podcast.
- Laura Young, MD, PhD, was among the researchers who published, “Metformin Plus Insulin for Preexisting Diabetes or Gestational Diabetes in Early Pregnancy: The MOMPOD Randomized Clinical Trial.”
- HIV.gov remembers Ada Adimora, MD, MPH, as a distinguished HIV researcher and member of PACHA.
- David Weber, MD, MPH, spoke about the new COVID-19 variant in North Carolina.
- David Wohl, MD, quoted in article feature women living with long COVID in Cary. =
- Mildred Kwan, MD, PhD, is helping to lead a project aimed at identifying patients who were mislabel as allergic to penicillin.
- Researchers at the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and the Thurston Arthritis Research Center’s Core Center for Clinical Research investigated the relationship between alpha-gal syndrome and knee pain.
- Seth Berkowitz, MD, MPH, published “Understanding food insecurity risk in the United States: A longitudinal analysis.”
- Walker D. Redd, MD, was featured in “When Is Colonoscopy Warranted After a Diverticulitis Episode?”
- Andrea Coviello, MD, spoke about the State Health Plan coverage of Wegovy.
- Gregg Warshaw, MD, was quoted in article about ageism and the need for more geriatricians.
- Emily Chang, MD, published “Lung Ultrasound, Bioimpedance Spectroscopy, and Physical Examination for Volume Assessment in Hospitalized Hemodialysis Patients: A Diagnostic Test Study.”