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Medicaid could expand healthcare access to underfunded groups within Durham, allowing greater access to services provided by Duke Health.
Duke Health neurosurgeon Oren Gottfried, who also works as a medical consultant for television, took on a voice acting as an AI operating room on Chicago Med.
The 14-member committee is responsible for monitoring the scope of science misinformation and brainstorming ethical intervention methods to limit its spread. At the end of an 18-month term, the committee will release a final report detailing the impact of science misinformation and laying a framework for future directions.
Goldstein said that when someone's sense of smell is damaged, people realize how important smell is to their daily lives. “We're constantly getting information through our olfactory system about the world around us,” he said.
At over 1.4 billion views in the last several months, the trending hashtag #IUD has allowed TikTok to rise as a platform for women to share their experiences with IUD insertion, removal and general usage.
Seasonal affective disorder can have a particularly strong impact on college students because it often coincides with finals season and the start of the new semester, both of which are common sources of stress for students.
Equity issues in computing can arise at the ground level with the development of software. The way that a programmer crafts a predictive model can be shaped by their own beliefs and biases.
Duke experts were part of a team that was the first to ever provide enzyme replacement therapy to a fetus to treat infantile-onset Pompe disease.
RSV typically spreads through the respiratory droplets of an infected person. Cases peaked earlier than normal due to the “immunity gap” from the pandemic, as many return to their everyday lives without masking or social distancing.
The Duke Human Vaccine Institute is tackling an epidemic that has claimed 40.1 million lives and continues to impact tens of millions more across the world.
The Wray lab's research helped forge the decision to make masks optional in classrooms as of Sept. 22, based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s community risk factor for Durham.
The $12 million grant will fund a three-part research program and will continue the Autism Center’s research program for five more years.
Since the 1980s, Vertices has been an article repository where Duke undergraduates could share their original research. Now, it’s transitioned into a full-fledged peer-reviewed research journal, allowing students to share their scientific research like never before.
The indoor pollutants Hoffman studies include household products, plastics, electronics and furniture.
The clinics are open to anyone in the community who meets vaccine guidelines. There is no cost for the vaccine and Duke affiliation and insurance is not required. Dates and times for future clinics have not been determined yet.
The research team and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which provided funding support for the study, were interested in the potential of translating the pill-based vaccine platform to reach low-resourced areas.
The Duke Consortium for Inflammatory Breast Cancer aims to improve diagnosis and treatment of the aggressive form of breast cancer through research and education.
Researchers aimed to make the technology more accessible by creating a smartphone-compatible, user-friendly tympanometer, so that patients will be able to interpret results without the assistance of an audiologist.
Duke is offering a second COVID-19 booster shot to eligible members of the Duke community who received their first booster at least four months ago.
Duke scientists developed a prophylactic nasal spray and early treatment throat spray for SARS-CoV-2 by repurposing niclosamide, a metabolic inhibitor previously used for 60 years for gut parasite infections.