Improving the health of North Carolina and the world

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September 26, 2018

A female medical provider checks a patient's blood pressure in a mobile clinic. — (UNC-Chapel Hill)

The health issues faced by North Carolinians — from Murphy to Manteo, in rural areas and metropolitan ones — reflect many of the issues faced by the citizens of the world. Through the training of health-care professionals and groundbreaking research — in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, public health and dentistry — Carolina will improve the health of the world, starting right here in our home state.

This is story number 13 in the Carolina Stories 225th Anniversary Edition magazine.

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