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“I would like to explain the importance of mentoring by using a metaphor of something that all of you in this room know about: a strain of DNA”, said Dr.

The day her eyelashes froze together turned out to be a pivotal day for Heather Whitson, MD, HS’01-’04, ‘06.

Living with a rare disease is a challenging journey for patients and their families. These diseases are frequently hard to diagnose, can be life threatening, and often have no cure.

A longtime advocate for the marriage of technology and data to advance health care, Amy Abernethy, MD’94, HS’94-’01, PhD, envisions a future in which

More than 10 million people worldwide—about 1 percent of people over age 60—live with Parkinson’s disease. There are treatments that can help control symptoms, but there is no cure.

Imagine a doctor saying you need surgery to replace a heart valve, and if you don’t get it you will die from heart failure within two years. If you live in Honduras, once you get that diagnosis at a public hospital, the doctor will hand you a list of the items needed for the surgery: saline solution, sutures, gloves, an oxygenator, pain medication, and a heart valve. As the patient, it’s your responsibility to find—and buy-—the items on that list.

In this month's Professional Development Blog, Duke Alumnus Louis D'Amico shares his experience transitioning from lab work to a role as Senior Science Advisor at the US Environmental Protecti

The term open science describes a broad effort aimed at making scientific processes, data, analyses, and publications as accessible as possible.

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