A Duke infectious disease researcher explains why public health officials are closely watching a virus that some say could cause the next pandemic.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a disease that causes scarring on the lungs. Over time, as more scarring occurs, patients experience decreased lung function and difficulty breathing.

The goal of Shuo Han's research is to understand the interplay between the human gut microbiota and aging.

Raluca Gordân, PhD, and team investigated how transcription factors may affect the production of genetic mutations, or mutagenesis, by binding to the wrong sites after being exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

After a decade of debate, North Carolina is poised to expand the state’s Medicaid program.  A cohort of Duke internal medicine residents has been advocating for the expansion for years, playing a small but powerful—perhaps even pivotal—role in moving expansion legislation forward.

Hilmar Lapp, from the Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, is winner of last month’s Duke University School of Medicine Black History Month quiz.

Partners in life and in graduate school, MD/PhD candidates Bijan Abar and Rebecca Gibson have helped one another thrive as mentors

Dean Mary Klotman, MD, talks with Sarah Armstrong, MD, Duke Professor of Pediatrics and Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Obesity, about the AAP new guidelines for child and adolescent obesity.

Surveillance testing, as well as other aspects of COVID-19 response, come to an end on Duke's campus.

An estate gift will advance the work of Sarah Armstrong and Chris Newgard who lead the NOURISH project which focuses on understanding the “food insecurity-obesity paradox”: the strong correlation between food insecurity — not having enough to eat — and obesity.