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Researchers at Duke have discovered a biomarker that can be used to diagnose and develop effective treatments for sepsis.
A team of Duke primate biologists and neurologists have uncovered "jumping genes" as potential strong contributors to the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
President Donald Trump has made cutting back on Food and Drug Administration regulations a priority, but what are the potential costs?
The new Duke Perioperative Pain Care clinic, which opened earlier this month, is seeking to help patients recover from surgery without chronic pain.
Bats can carry deadly diseases like Ebola without being infected by them, and scientists want to know how.
Forty light years away, seven exoplanets have caused scientists to ask if there is life beyond our own.
The recent expansion of Roivant Sciences’ Durham office marks the growing relationship between the company and the Duke community.
Duke students and researchers are constructing robots to investigate the deepest depths of the ocean.
Collaborators at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are leading the charge in brain cancer research by focusing on personalized medicine.
The outgoing Dean of Medicine Nancy Andrews reflected on her key vision for the School of Medicine and its progress in the past year during her final State of the School address.
Researchers have discovered that creativity might be related to the strength of neural connections between the brain's left and right hemispheres.
What is making you sick? The answer could lie in your mucus.
The Duke School of Nursing is taking steps to promote the U.S. Surgeon General’s Turn The Tide Rx movement—a call to end the national opioid epidemic.
Beginning March 1, the heart programs at Duke University Health System and WakeMed Health and Hospital will be integrated into one service.
Newly-released research shows that the survival odds for preterm babies are improving.
Even people living far away from urban lights are also sleep deprived, a recent study showed.
Having issues with the "Dukeblue" wifi this semester? You’re not alone.
Duke researchers have unravelled why the “strawberry squid" has such a strange googly-eyed appearance—its two different sized eyes allow the creature to adapt to its deep-sea habitat.
Mark McClellan was recently appointed the director of the newly-formed Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, which aims to improve health care through developing and implementing policy solutions. A former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, he also served as an administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President George W. Bush. The Chronicle's Vir Patel talked with McClellan about the center's goals and its collaboration with the Duke community.
In response to an increasingly severe influenza season this year in the Triangle area, Duke University Health System has implemented visitation restrictions in its hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.