As expensive new weight loss medicines Wegovy and Mounjaro shake up obesity treatment, the Duke study provides a reminder of the lasting savings surgery can deliver. 

Research led by Virginia Byers Kraus, MD, PhD, indicates that key proteins in the ankles are similar to those used by salamanders to regenerate severed limbs and might hold the key to a new therapeutic approach for joint disease.

A team from the Duke Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery has performed the first robotic bilateral lung transplant in the Southeast, and one of the first in the U.S. Duke is one of only a handful of centers in the nation performing fully robotic lung transplants.

The 230-acre campus will include a 500-bed children’s hospital, a children’s outpatient care center, 103 children and adolescent behavioral health beds, and a research and education enterprise backed by the UNC and Duke schools of medicine.

Duke University School of Medicine researchers will launch a new national Center of Excellence for Multiscale Immune Systems Modeling (MISM), funded by a U54 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

The Duke Physician Assistant Program held its annual White Coat Ceremony on June 27, marking the transition from classroom learning to clinical training for 89 students in the class of 2026.

Dean Mary Klotman, MD, highlighted how the extraordinary ambition and resilience of the Duke Health community illuminate the themes of Duke's MADE FOR THIS campaign in her 2025 State of the School Address.

Durham teens who learned to navigate their city by bus, bike or on foot got more exercise, more independence, and a shot at healthier habits for life.

Long seen as defenders against disease, immune cells in the brain are now emerging as architects of early brain development.

School of Medicine researchers are among more than 60 at Duke looking for ways to prevent bad effects from plastics that break into microparticles.