February 10, 2023
The White House Chief Science and Technology Advisor Arati Prabhakar, MS, PhD, visited Chapel Hill to discuss the fight against cancer at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
October 31, 2022
February 24, 2021
Adam O. Goldstein, MD, MPH, and Leah M. Ranney, PhD, have published a study that found that smokers who saw messages about tobacco chemicals with associated health risks expressed greater desire to quit smoking.
February 24, 2021
November 16, 2020
The award, a supplement to a two-year NCI grant, will expand tobacco cessation treatment services for N.C. Cancer Hospital patients who use tobacco products and extend these services to their support persons who also use tobacco.
October 13, 2020
Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, Trevor Jolly, MBBS, and Kimberly Shoenbill, MD, PhD, published an editorial in JAMA that states the case for more intensive smoking cessation programs for cancer patients.
August 6, 2020
Published survey results from Sarah Kowitt, PhD, MPH, and Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, found that more than twice as many cigar smokers reported increased tobacco use since the pandemic’s onset.
June 30, 2020
Researchers led by Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, and Kimberly Shoenbill, MD, PhD, will help assess whether smoking impacts COVID-19 symptoms, treatment and outcomes.
October 7, 2019
The National Cancer Institute has awarded University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, a five-year, $2.7 million grant to develop more effective health warnings for little cigars and cigarillos. Nearly 12 million U.S. adults reported smoking cigars within a single month, according to 2016 national survey, and little cigars …
April 23, 2018
Researchers led by UNC Lineberger's Adam Goldstein, MD, and Clare Meernik, MPH, surveyed 2,664 young adults who were current users, never users, or past users of little cigars and cigarillos, finding cigarillo packs with colors and containing a flavor descriptor were rated more positively for taste and smell.
