Oct 24, 2007 Young adults might want to change their wedding vows to say they are taking each other “for better or girth”…”The weight gain in this age group is frightening,” says Penny Gordon-Larsen, an assistant professor of nutrition in … Read more

Oct 17, 2007 Ilene S. Speizer, CPC Fellow, has been awarded funding for the research project “Partner Violence Norms and HIV Risk Taking Among Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa.” This study uses data from more than 15 recent African Demographic and … Read more

Oct 17, 2007 CPC Fellow Ronald R. Rindfuss, Robert Paul Ziff Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has received funding for the research project  “Circular Migration and Its Long-Term Impacts.” This research project … Read more

Oct 11, 2007 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has launched an Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases to extend and enhance ongoing research efforts to improve the lives of people around the world. The institute, based … Read more

Oct 4, 2007 The National Institutes of Health selected the Carolina Population Center (CPC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be the study center for the National Children’s Study in Rockingham County, NC. The National Children’s … Read more

Oct 4, 2007 Aislyn Gleghorn, now 4 weeks old, may find she has a certain fondness for windstorms when she grows up. After all, she was conceived during the great Hanukkah Eve Wind Storm of 2006, which left more than … Read more

Oct 4, 2007 White men with heart disease are far more likely to get a simple live-saving treatment than women or black men, two new studies from Duke University show. … “They have stereotypes about minorities and about women and … Read more

Sep 25, 2007 … “There’s not a single drink out there — from Enviga to SmartWater — that has any proof of impact,” said nutrition professor Barry Popkin, who directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity at the University of North … Read more

Sep 25, 2007 … “It’s a very different world than it was a while back,” said Dr. Barry Popkin, director of the University of North Carolina‘s Interdisciplinary Obesity Center. “The bulk of the world is fat.” Even the Mediterranean diet … Read more

Aug 31, 2007 As Labor Day approaches, why does it feel like we’re working harder every year? … Moreover, the labor force is now dominated by two-worker families, leaving less time for child rearing and housekeeping duties that haven’t gone … Read more