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Shows hands pouring a chemical into a testing container that labeled "Microfiber filter" These processes - along with mass spectrometry - helped identify GenX in the Cape Fear River. NC State will have a research center dedicated to PFAS.

N.C. State receives $7.4 million grant to establish PFAS research center

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N.C. State receives $7.4 million grant to establish PFAS research center - North Carolina Health News

The center will expand on existing studies, including human exposure to PFAS in Wilmington and the Fayetteville area, and take a deeper look into getting rid of the chemicals.

By Greg Barnes During the past few years, researchers at N.C. State University have taken blood and tap water samples from people in the Wilmington and Fayetteville areas to assess their exposure to GenX and other PFAS chemicals. Now, with a $7.4 million federal grant announced this month, they plan to dive even deeper into […]

A support group participant for people caring for loved ones with memory loss and dementia

With dementia at flood tide in NC, person-to-person support groups address problems

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With dementia at flood tide in NC, person-to-person support groups address problems - North Carolina Health News

North Carolina faces a flood of people with dementia that will reach 300,000 by 2030. Responses as simple as person-to-person support groups address gaps that big medicine has yet to fill.

By Thomas Goldsmith Stan Eskridge learned about sundown syndrome not long ago when his wife of 54 years showed shocking anger toward him near the end of the day. Eskridge recalled his experiences last week as part of his check-in among a room of people in a Chapel Hill support group for dementia caregivers. Group […]

A building shot of a red brick structure, this is Chatham Hospital, where a new maternity unit will soon open.

New maternity unit will put family docs at the helm

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New maternity unit will put family docs at the helm - North Carolina Health News

Amidst a trend of rural maternity unit closures across the state, Chatham Hospital announced it will open the 5-bed maternity unit in September 2020.

By Liora Engel-Smith The mural at the corner of Siler City’s Chatham Avenue and Beaver Street describes what was. Created to depict life in the town in 1910, it shows several one- or two-story buildings and a wide dirt road. One building in the mural has a visible sign, an ode to what was the […]