Study shows minimal COVID-19 infections among children at day camps
Among 6,000 children and staffers at YMCA day camps, Duke researchers documented just 19 cases of COVID-19 while community incidence spread.
ACGME approves accreditation of rural training track of family medicine residency
A new Duke Health training program aimed at meeting primary care shortage needs in rural North Carolina has been approved by the ACGME Residency Review Committee.
Former School of Medicine dean, R. Sanders Williams, named interim Vice President for Research and Innovation
Harnessing the brain’s resilience to fight Alzheimer’s Disease
Duke study: when schools take COVID safety measures, viral transmissions for in-person schooling are lower than in community
Research from Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill suggests that schools can consider returning to in-class instruction if they mitigate COVID-19 transmission on campuses, despite the level of COVID
Nadine Barrett, Ph.D., to lead Duke project studying health concerns of local Black community
Duke University has been awarded a Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award to study the health concerns most important to the local Black community, particularly as they relate to COVID-19.
Discussion: Possible impact of COVID-19 variants
Duke University School of Medicine Dean Mary Klotman, MD, talks with Duke infectious disease specialists, David Montefiori, MD, and Thomas Denny, MSc, MPhil about potential issues surrounding varia
Ensuring everyone in the world gets a COVID vaccine
7 global health experts from Africa, Latin America, Asia and the U.S. talk about their continents' unique issues
A Detour into Melanoma
Postdoctoral fellow Binita Chakraborty, PhD, was intrigued: in published analyses of large numbers of patients with melanoma (skin cancer) treated with an immunotherapy that is becoming standa
Estrogen receptors in mom's placenta critical during viral infection
Researchers at Duke and Mt. Sinai have identified a molecular mechanism that prevents a viral infection during a mother’s pregnancy from harming her unborn baby.