Med School Blog
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July 28, 2021
After a yearlong planning process, the School of Medicine details its commitment to dismantling racism in a new strategic plan . Like many, Annise...
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July 27, 2021
Congratulations to the 2021 LEADER program graduates! The LEADER Program is an interactive 5-month series designed for junior faculty who are leading...
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July 21, 2021
Unbeknown to most, artists and scientists actually have a lot in common—they both labor over creating the visual representations of their work. This...
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July 21, 2021
Cancer deaths were lower in the five states and District of Columbia that expanded Medicaid early-on as part of the Affordable Care Act, compared to...
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July 20, 2021
Children and adolescents who had mild to asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 were found to have robust antibody responses up to four months after...
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July 16, 2021
A surgical team at Duke University Hospital, led by Drs. Jacob Schroder and Carmelo Milano, successfully implanted a new-generation artificial heart...
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July 13, 2021
Neither is good or bad, they are just not the same, authors say. Plant-based meat substitutes taste and chew remarkably similar to real beef, and the...
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July 13, 2021
In areas of North Carolina where the air has higher levels of particle pollution than the World Health Origination recommends, Duke Health...
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July 2, 2021
Congratulations to the 28 School of Medicine and Duke Health faculty who graduated from the 2021 Duke Clinical Leadership Program (DCLP) on 6/24/21!...
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July 1, 2021
A new report issued today by the Duke-led ABC Science Collaborative shows that North Carolina schools were highly successful in preventing the...
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June 30, 2021
The widespread use of masks in schools can effectively prevent COVID-19 transmission and provide a safe learning environment, two Duke scholars said...
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June 30, 2021
Combining structural biology and computation, a Duke-led team of researchers has identified how multiple mutations on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein...
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June 30, 2021
In honor of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, we talked with three experts in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences to learn more about how they...
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June 28, 2021
This spring, nine faculty members in the Duke University School of Medicine have been awarded distinguished professorships. In total, Duke University...
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June 25, 2021
The brain’s neurons tend to get most of the scientific attention, but a set of cells around them called astrocytes – literally, star-shaped cells –...