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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
SurroundSense, an application developed by three members of the Duke community, can pinpoint the location of a phone more precisely than current global positioning systems.
Several top Duke and Singaporean officials gathered Monday for the official opening of the Duke University-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School’s new home, an 11-story medical...
University faculty publish research on topics such as color blindness in monkeys and asexual fungus-gardening ants—work that is sometimes overlooked by the general public.
Someone suspected to have psychic healing abilities attempts to wake up a mouse with his mind. Although experiments like this may seem out of place at Duke today, they were not a few decades ago.
Five weeks into the school year, the estimated number of H1N1 virus cases on campus is 350, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations.
Carolina Parent magazine has ranked Duke University and Health System in its list of the top 50 family-friendly employers in North Carolina.
Duke Medical Center’s Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center is teaming up with the Burnham Institute for Medical Research to build a collaborative new research facility in Orlando, Fla.
Late nights at the kitchen table with textbooks, problem sets and hovering parents may not be as useful as some believe.
Chief executive officers, entrepreneurs and medical professionals gathered at the Fuqua School of Business Wednesday for Duke’s first Medical Innovation and Strategies Conference.
Brian Hare, assistant professor of evolutionary anthropology, is opening the Duke Canine Cognition Center very soon. The Chronicle’s Emily Stern discusses his inspiration for the project.
Students sick with the flu can take solace knowing that their coursework can be applied to minimizing the spread of their disease.
