Governor Roy Cooper has proclaimed the week of September 15-18 as Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Week in North Carolina. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke. During the half-century since, Duke has been committed to research, innovation, and advanced care for gynecologic cancers.

COVID exacted a huge toll on the wellbeing of health care workers. Already struggling with high levels of emotional exhaustion going into the pandemic, the problem grew even worse after two years of managing the crisis. Nurses have been especially hard hit.

Data from the largest mental health survey of the Flint, Michigan community indicate that one in five adults, or roughly 13,600 people, were estimated to have clinical depression, and one in four, or 15,000 people, were estimated to have PTSD five years after the water crisis began.

Susan Halabi, PhD, professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics (B&B), will receive the 21st annual Janet L.

This September, the Tyler’s Hope for a Dystonia Cure Foundation will officially recognize Duke Health as the country’s second Center of Excellence for Dystonia.

In the Duke Clinical Research Institute, a group of pediatric physician-scientists has built a unique foundation for finding public health answers. Fueled by a deeply ingrained commitment to teamwork and mentorship and a shared ability for recognizing opportunities to advance clinical research, they are having an enormous impact on medical treatments for children — and adults — and influencing public health and student wellness across the country.

What's in a shape? As it turns out, a lot. Understanding the structures of proteins and other molecules in extremely fine detail can be key to finding out how they work.

Chlamydia, the leading cause of sexually transmitted bacterial infections, evades detection and elimination inside human cells by use of a cloaking device. But Duke University researchers have grasped the hem of that invisibility cloak and now hope they can pull it apart.

A potential HIV vaccine component has led to strong protection in primates by eliciting an antibody that binds to part of the virus’s outer envelope, reports a team led by researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI).

Makenzie Beaman, a pediatric scientist in training in the Medical Science Training Program (MSTP), was selected for the best fellow platform presentation award at the