Duke Med ‘doing the right thing’
By Julian Spector | December 8, 2010The raucous debate over health care legislation in 2009 brought issues of medical care and cost management to the national forefront
The raucous debate over health care legislation in 2009 brought issues of medical care and cost management to the national forefront
Duke will comply with the American Cancer Society’s request for repayment of a grant that funded the work of former Duke cancer researcher Dr. Anil Potti.
Scientists are now one step closer to effective breast cancer prevention after a study performed by researchers at the Duke University Medical Center.
Brian Hare, an assistant professor of evolutionary anthropology, is the director of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, which tests dogs brought in voluntarily by their owners in order to understand...
Mooney, the George Barth Geller Professor of Research and Neurobiology, is dedicated to understanding the biological basis of learning by studying the learning processes of songbirds.
New cries have arisen in response to the accidental use of hydraulic-fluid-tainted surgical instruments on DUHS patients in late 2004.
A Duke researcher is in the process of retracting a foundational cancer genomics paper, signaling a lack of confidence in some of its findings.
The Duke cancer researcher who has been under investigation for research misconduct since this summer has resigned.
Dr. Anil Potti stepped down from his position at Duke’s Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy Friday and took responsibility for the problems in his research. "It has been a difficult time, as...
Three weeks after Dr. Joseph Nevins e-mailed co-authors of a paper acknowledging it needed to be retracted, The Journal of Clinical Oncology has formally granted the request.
Faculty and students rarely find themselves threatened by their own garbage.
As part of a seven-year grant, Duke University Medical Center received $52.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to house a central quality assurance program for the testing of potential...
Dr. Victor Dzau was honored Sunday with the American Heart Association’s 2010 Research Achievement Award.
Sometimes widespread knowledge of danger is not enough to prevent risky behavior.
Exercise today can improve your sex life in old age, a recent study by Duke researchers found.
Children who display symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are more likely to be obese as adults, a new study suggests.
A gender gap still exists at the School of Medicine, where there are fewer than four females for every 10 members of the faculty.
In an attempt to save the lives of leukemia patients, prospective bone marrow donors swabbed their cheeks in the Bryan Center last Thursday. Although the process of registration is simple, it could...
The University voluntarily canceled three clinical trials that drew from the research of Dr. Anil Potti, a cancer researcher whose research is currently under investigation.
The Duke University Health System topped out the steel skeleton Sunday for its $230 million new Cancer Center, which will be a fundamental part of the development of the Duke Cancer Institute.