Do you have COPD and repeated breathing flares ending up in the hospital? If you are under the care of a doctor at UNC, you may be eligible for a research study to find out which of two medicines, roflumilast or azithromycin, can help your COPD control.
The study is being done to compare two ways of treating patients with a brain injury. At this time medical providers do not know if one way is better than the other. Both ways of treating patients are used in standard of care. None of the treatments in this study are investigational.
Have you traveled to a dengue, Zika or other arbovirus endemic area? Donate blood to aid in the development of vaccines! If you have ever lived in or traveled to tropical areas where arboviruses are common and suspect you may have been exposed to an arbovirus, please consider participating in our research study and donating some blood!
The purpose of this study is to investigate the health of former women's soccer players.
This study is to see if levels of ozone that you might be exposed to on a normal day can affect your lung function and cause swelling in your airways. We are also looking at new devices that might one day be used to measure someone's response to air pollution and exercise.
If you've had a kidney biopsy and learned you have a specific kidney condition, you might be eligible to join a three-year study. This study looks at how two medicines, when used together, might help treat your condition.
About 1 out of 5 women who are overweight or report snoring will test positive for sleep apnea during pregnancy. The most commonly prescribed treatment for sleep apnea is a small device called a CPAP. The CPAP just helps you to breathe in a normal pattern during sleep. Sleep apnea is common in pregnancy; it can affect the quality of your sleep and how you feel and function during the day. The goal of this study is to understand if using CPAP in pregnancy can help women have healthier pregnancies.
Are you pregnant? Would you like to have some extra ultrasounds of your baby? We're currently recruiting pregnant women who would like to participate in this ultrasound study. You will be able to have an extra ultrasound up to every two weeks (unless asked to return sooner) - you decide how often you would like to come.
Do you have Peripheral T Cell Lymphoma? Has your cancer come back or did it not get better with the last treatment you were given? If so, you may be eligible to participate in this gene therapy research study to learn more about using your own modified immune cells as possible treatment.
To evaluate the safety and efficacy of a device removing lipids from the blood using an apheresis device in treating primary FSGS