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The North Carolina Coalition Initiative (NCCI) seeks to reduce substance abuse in North Carolina communities by building the capacity of community coalitions to implement environmental strategies.
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Quality Care at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center - We are committed to providing quality care and a safe hospital environment. To ensure that we are doing the best for our patients, we constantly evaluate our performance and measure it against other top hospitals.
U.S. News & World Report ranks Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center among the nation's best in 8 categories.
A good night’s sleep is crucial to daily function, but more than 40 million Americans live with an undiagnosed or untreated sleep disorder in the United States. At Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, the sleep-challenged can find help at the Sleep Center, now conveniently located at the Hawthorne Inn to provide patients with the highest quality of care in a comfortable and relaxing environment.
Western North Carolina’s first transoral robotic surgery (TORS), a minimally invasive, endoscopic technique for removal of early stage tumors of the tongue base, tonsil and larynx, has been performed at Wake Forest Baptist by surgeon Josh Waltonen, MD, of the Department of Otolaryngology, and all three patients who underwent the first procedures are recovering well, without the complications that follow traditional surgery.
ScienceDaily and other national news outlets have featured the findings of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher Chadwick Miller. His study may help reduce hospital admissions and treatment costs for patients entering the ED for treatment of chest pain.
Millions of Americans in the early stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at an increased risk of having atrial fibrillation (AF) – a major risk factor for stroke – according to new research by investigators at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
Ross Ungerleider, M.D., M.B.A., a national leader and pioneer in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery programs, has joined Brenner Children’s Hospital as chief of the pediatric cardiovascular surgery team and director of the pediatric heart program.
In high-risk adults with type 2 diabetes, researchers have found that two therapies may slow the progression of diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that is the leading cause of vision loss in working-age Americans.
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A group of researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) is developing a way to treat cancer by using lasers to light up tiny nanoparticles and destroy tumors with the ensuing heat.
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