Study links lead exposure, poor scores
By Sabrina Rubakovic | November 3, 2009A study found that elementary school children performed worse on tests if they were exposed to small amounts of lead as infants.
A study found that elementary school children performed worse on tests if they were exposed to small amounts of lead as infants.
After just one year as dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, Tom Katsouleas has already started to leave his mark in programs, and in smiles.
A Duke professor is looking for a way to protect at-risk populations from one of the world’s newest and most under-examined pandemics—obesity.
A Duke study showed that 40 minutes after Barack Obama’s presidential win, testosterone levels in male supporters of Sen. John McCain dropped.
Last Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee became the last of the five Congressional committees with jurisdiction over health care to pass a health care reform bill.
As Cameron Crazies paint themselves Duke blue for basketball season, freshmen are also embracing another color—green.
Students hoping to split geodes and glimpse marine animals at this year’s Earth Jam may will to wait at least another year. The free, interactive environmental festival that takes place annually in...
For the third time in as many years, Duke earned a B+ on the Sustainable Endowment Institute’s 2010 College Sustainability Report Card, released earlier this month.
Duke is offering a limited amount of injectable H1N1 vaccine to high-risk groups within the Duke community. Priority for the first doses of the vaccine will be given to pregnant University...
James Reynolds, professor of environmental science and biology, presented the Drylands Desertification Paradigm to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification at its Sept. 21 to Oct. 2...
Newly published research suggests that spotted hyenas cooperate and solve problems better than primates.
Researchers at Duke Translational Research Institute and Duke Clinical Research Institute have joined to develop a universal antidote for aptamer drugs—medications made of DNA or RNA that bind to...
Although testing has only been conducted on mice, researchers say they may soon have a new way to repair cardiac damage, such as the damage done by a heart attack.
Forget Pepto-Bismol. Children can now imagine going down an incredibly long slide or sitting on a cloud or a floating blanket to reduce abdominal pain.
Last Wednesday, 752 students sniffed their way out of swine flu at Student Health’s flu clinic. FluMist, a nasal spray vaccine for the H1N1 strain of influenza, arrived at the Duke University...
The Duke University Health System recently changed its visitor policy so that only immediate adult family members and designated caregivers are allowed to see patients. The restriction aims to...
Dr. Michael Merson has been a man on the move in the past few years. After serving as dean of public health at Yale University for a decade, he became the founding director of the Duke Global...
Manuel Rosa has spent 18 years researching Christopher Columbus and his voyage to America. The Chronicle’s Jessica Chang spoke with Rosa about his findings and what he has discovered that suggests...
A recent study found that global health accounted for more than 7,000 jobs and $508 million in salaries in 2007, making the total impact of global health on the state’s economy somewhere between...
Tim Profeta, director of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and a senior associate dean, appeared before the U.S. Senate recently to discuss cap-and-trade systems.