Mason Essif has been named vice dean for communications and advancement and chief communications officer for Duke University School of Medicine.

Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, MD, has been selected as a member of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine. She is among 13 leaders in health care and public health confirmed as new members by the institute's board of directors and announced December 5, 2022.

Popular TikTok videos related to intrauterine devices (IUDs) tend to depict negative patient experiences related to pain, while some videos conveyed unreliable information about the contraceptive devices.

Bobby Warren, MPS, director of the Duke Disinfection, Resistance, and Transmission Epidemiology lab, also known as the DiRTE lab, spends his days thinking about how to reduce the numbers of pathogens in hospitals and clinics.

Rana Gupta, PhD, a professor of medicine and Duke Science and Technology Scholar, says fat is more than an energy bank: it’s “a very talkative, chatty tissue,” and what it says can tell us a lot about how fat affects heart disease, diabetes and overall health.

Since the early 1980s, Duke staff and faculty showed courage, compassion in the face of the HIV epidemic

A family history of cancer and genetic variants that might be inherited appear to be important risk factors for Black men diagnosed with early-onset prostate cancer, a study involving Duke Health researchers has found.

Aravind Asokan, PhD, will lead a new strategic partnership with Danaher Corporation to form the first Danaher Beacon for Gene Therapy Innovation, a new initiative designed to access breakthrough science to create technologies and applications that will improve human health. 

Randomized study led by Columbia University and Duke's Murali Doraiswamy determined that crossword puzzles have an advantage over cognitive computer games for memory functioning in older adults with mild cognitive impairment.

We are hard-wired to love sweets, but, as is so often the case, too much of a good thing can be a bad thing: overconsumption of sugar raises the risk of obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and other health conditions.