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The first time Shree Bose saw a live beating human heart, it took her breath away. She was on a surgery rotation, one of the clinical rotations that Duke medical students complete during their second year. Just a short while earlier, the patient had spoken with the medical team, expressing anxieties about the surgery. Now, with a few strokes of the surgeon’s scalpel, Bose could see the patient’s heart. It was a little mind-boggling.

Observational studies have long shown a connection between obesity and cancer in humans, but the biological processes linking them are not yet clearly understood by scientists. A new metabolic pathway identified by scientists from Duke University in the journal Cell may explain an aspect of how excessive carbohydrate metabolism may help cancer cells to grow.

  As many of you already know, major changes to requirements for NIH and AHRQ applications proposing research with human subjects went into effect for deadlines January 25, 2018, and later. These reflect a change in the application "forms" set from Forms D to Forms E, and hence are referred to as "Forms E" for short.

Just a year after its launch in September 2017, the Translating Duke Health Initiative has already funded 14 innovative pilot projects aimed at accelerating knowledge in cardiovascular disease, children’s health, brain metastasis, brain resilience, and immunology.

Now Accepting Applications 2019 Early Career Women Faculty Leadership Development Seminar February 2-5, 2019 Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine San Diego, California  

Using a clinical checklist to identify eligible patients, doctors were able to shorten the antibiotic duration for patients with uncomplicated staphylococcal bloodstream infections by nearly two days, Duke Health researchers report.   That’s good news for individual patients and could also help reduce antibiotic resistance on a broader scale.   

A recent article in Nature (The Key to a Happy Lab Life is in the Manual) has us thinking about how setting expectations can contribute to an ideal laboratory environment to conduct “good” science.

The Department of Medicine and Scholars@Duke are partnering to offer profile photo days open to all faculty and trainees — i.e., anyone with a Scholars profile who needs/wants a new photo. Monday, September 24 - 9:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Duke Medicine Pavilion room 2W93 (http://maps.duke.edu/map/?id=21#!ce/329?ct/329?m/5702) Tuesday, November 13 - time and location to be determined (in or near Bryan Center)

School of Medicine Dean Mary Klotman and School of Nursing Dean Marion Broome invite you to join them for a special Deans’ Forum: Addressing Sexual Harassment   October 15, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center for Health Education This interactive event will empower individuals to: