Palliative care -- relief from symptoms -- significantly improves a patient’s quality of life and eases fatigue, depression and post-traumatic stress symptoms while they are hospitalized for bone marrow transplant.

Bob Keegan is empowering a pioneering Duke Health team with a transformational gift to kick-start the new Duke Heart Precision and Innovation Collaboratory.

Sneha Mantri, MD, a neurologist and one of five new Macy Faculty Scholars, will use the opportunity to expand Moral Movements in Medicine to offer empathy training to health professionals students.

A two-question survey identifies who could benefit most from a holistic approach to managing pain

This spring, 18 faculty members in the Duke University School of Medicine have been awarded distinguished professorships.

Humanized animal models allow researchers to see how drugs work or affect humans without needing human test subjects.

Mary Klotman speaks with Michael Cohen-Wolkoweiz, MD, PhD, about iCubed, a new center launched by the Duke Clinical Research Institute that works with clinical research innovators to nurture their ideas to become products, initiatives or even companies.

Each year, fourth-year medical students across the country view the third week of March as the beginning of their careers in medicine.

Volunteers called 3,000 philanthropic donors and sent handwritten notes to 200 more to thank them for their generous support during the 11th annual Duke Health Thank-a-thon on February 21.  

Irrespective of income or education, people living in disadvantaged neighborhoods show early signs of cognitive decline.