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.
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.
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.
This is a three-year research study for people with primary membranous nephropathy (primary MN). The study will test if combining belimumab and rituximab is effective in treating Primary MN.
The purpose of this study is to understand what moms think about all types of birth control, including immediate postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC), and what they think about planning for pregnancy. This study will help further explain black-white differences in immediate postpartum LARC uptake.
The purpose of this study is to understand provider perceptions of immediate postpartum LARC. This research will help further explain black-white differences in immediate postpartum LARC uptake.
We are looking for families with children between 0-5 years old to help us find out if a new type of MRI sequence can take better pictures of children's brains.
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.