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Duke Hospital received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines Dec. 14, a milestone in overcoming the pandemic. Duke received three trays containing the vaccine in its first shipment, for a total of 2,295 doses. Each person who is vaccinated has to get two doses 21 days apart for optimal effect.
As debate swirls around reopening the economy, three Duke professors addressed the need to remedy testing shortages in a Tuesday media briefing.
There is one thing we constantly consume that we don’t usually give a second thought to: drinking water. A new Duke study on groundwater challenges that lack of attention.
Mark Kruse worked with Al Goshaw, James B. Duke professor emeritus of physics, to discover the top quark, the “heaviest elementary particle."
Hearing impairment affects approximately 37.5 million Americans. The economic and healthcare costs of hearing loss amounts to billions of dollars annually.
Chemotherapy is ubiquitous in the world of cancer treatment, but cancer cells have a way to fight back: they simply resist the drugs used in the treatment.
On Thanksgiving, a team 40 Duke medical personnel came together to perform the first bilateral hand transplant in North Carolina.
Cancer medication may help treat pneumonia too.
If you’ve ever taken an introductory biology course, you’re probably familiar with intricate protein ribbon diagrams. These diagrams were developed by Jane Richardson, James B. Duke professor of medicine, celebrating 50 years working here at Duke University.
A slew of American universities released fiscal year 2018 endowment figures in the past several weeks, including Duke, whose endowment returned a 12.9 percent growth to a record $8.5 billion dollars.