On February 20, approximately 150 Duke alumni attended a talk in San Francisco hosted by A. Eugene Washington, MD, chancellor for health affairs; Mary E.

Dean Mary E.

Despite reports in recent years suggesting childhood obesity could be reaching a plateau in some groups, the big picture on obesity rates for children ages 2 to 19 remains unfavorable.

Treating food allergies might be a simple matter of teaching the immune system a new trick, researchers at Duke Health have found.
 

Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology in the Duke Univer

Nearly 150,000 Americans annually are diagnosed with cancer that has metastasized, or traveled, to the brain. The number is projected to rise.

Drug appears to reverse structural and genetic brain changes that affect memory, learning

ADVANCE-UP (Academic DeVelopment, Advocacy, Networking, Coaching and Education for  Underrepresented Populations) is a year-long pilot progr

Robert Gramer, MD’19, learned how much a skilled and compassionate physician can influence someone’s life after he suffered a series of catastrophic knee injuries and a juvenile form of macular deg