For a child, recovering from a broken bone is typically a short-lived, albeit painful, convalescence. But for older adults, it can be a protracted and potentially life-threatening process.

Umbilical cord blood stem cells that are cultured and expanded outside the body before being used for bone marrow transplant in adult blood cancer patients appear safe and restore blood count recov

Is the biggest enemy of good science a financial conflict of interest? Probably not. The real enemy is bias. How do you measure bias? What are potential sources of bias?

Anna Mae Diehl, MD, the Florence McAllister Professor of Medicine and professor of molecular genetics and microbiology in Duke University Sch

Those who remember the crash test dummy commercials for automobiles in the 1980s know that testing new technologies using human models first can help keep actual people safe.

 When scientific publication is viewed as a web of connections, some publi

Four faculty members from the Duke University School of Medicine have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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