The first-year students in the School of Medicine’s MD program celebrated their entry into the profession of medicine at the 2025 White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 8 in Page Auditorium. 

The first cohort of 104 rising ninth-graders began their studies last week at the new school, a partnership between Duke Health, Durham Public Schools, and Durham Technical Community College designed to create pathways for high school students into careers at Duke Health.

Family caregivers face an immense burden. Duke population health researchers are gathering evidence to show what type of care leads to the best physical and mental health for the care recipients, and how to best support the caregivers themselves.

New study links the use of five medications or more — known as polypharmacy —to reduced strength and mobility in adults as young as 50.

Researchers have discovered for the first time that a particular protein plays a crucial role in the development of a normal placenta in the early stages of pregnancy. Learning more more about the protein, PIEZ01, and its role in pregnancy could pave the way for preventing unexplained miscarriages, preeclampsia, or fetal growth restriction.

Peter J. Allen, MD, a nationally known surgical oncologist and leader in cancer care, has been named the new chair of the Department of Surgery in the School of Medicine, effective August 25, 2025.  

Duke researchers are collaborating on a new project that uses machine learning to recognize patterns in electronic health record data associated with children who are later diagnosed with autism.

From daily medications to modern ultrasounds, many of the advances that are part of our daily lives grew out of research conducted at Duke and supported by federal research funding.

Elizabeth Rojo, a PhD candidate in Population Health, aims to develop interventions to protect vulnerable populations such as farm workers from the effects of extreme heat.

Artificial intelligence has helped map the hidden biology behind the pain, dizziness, and exhaustion of chronic fatigue syndrome, and identified new biomarkers to improve diagnosis.