As the world focuses on the Ebola outbreak, a team of Duke researchers are turning their attention to a different infectious disease—the bubonic plague.
When Liberia native and Duke employee Amos Kai heard of the devastation Ebola has caused in his former home, he found a way to utilize his connection with Duke to send supplies to those in need.
The Duke Human Vaccine Institute has renewed its seven-year contract with the National Institute of Health to perform quality control tests for HIV research.
“Duke is in a good position in terms of local resources, local expertise and in-hospital management capacity."
For 33 years, Larry Hester's world was dark—but thanks to a "bionic eye" implanted by Duke Eye Center, he is now getting a second chance at sight.
Duke Medicine confirmed a false Ebola scare last Thursday and continues to make preparations to handle the possibility of an Ebola patient
The Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke is launching the Ebola Innovations Challenge, during which the student community will submit possible plans to end the spread of Ebola.
Two projects at Duke have received more than $1.4 million each over the next three years from the National Institutes of Health as part of President Obama's Brain Research through Advancing...
Construction for the new Student Health and Wellness Center is on track to begin in the Spring.
The Duke Clinical Research Institute is involved in a project that has received $20 million to determine the effectiveness of various uterine fibroid treatments.
This winter will mark Duke's first cold and flu season since the 1990s with all student health services in one location—and some students are expressing concern about whether Student Health can...
They have looked into potential risks of the process, with their work becoming increasingly important as North Carolina holds public hearings on fracking and seeks to begin fracking tests in the fall.
More than 100 families flocked to the Duke Lemur Center in the hopes of finding a new sort of animal to call their own.
The Duke Superfund Research Center is inviting people to mail in samples from foam-containing furniture to be tested for toxic chemicals.
The Score for More campaign is uniting football and medicine to help fight sickle cell disease.
DLC will hold its second Lemurpalooza, a celebration and educational event open to the Duke and Durham community, Friday Oct. 3.
Anne Pusey, chair of the evolutionary anthropology department, was involved in digitizing the recordings of immature chimpanzees taken between 1971 and 1973 but were ignored until recently.
With the Affordable Healthcare Act changing the financial side of medicine, Duke has launched a new program to educate physicians about the business of healthcare.
A new major in School of Nursing allows student to become women’s health nurse practitioners.
The world's largest DNA origami has been formed thanks to a collaboration between researchers in North Carolina and Denmark.
