For 26 years, Duke’s Exploring Medicine in Honduras program has immersed medical, nursing, and physical therapy students in collaborative, community-based care, teaching them to diagnose and treat patients in resource-limited settings while building long-term relationships with local communities. Through hands-on experiences such as treating chronic wounds with simple materials and adapting care without advanced technology, students learn clinical reasoning, teamwork, compassion, and the value of serving underserved populations.

What if pain relief and addiction didn't have to go hand in hand? Duke researchers report a discovery that could help scientists design safer opioids. Their Nature study found that a small group of brain cells appear to play an important role in reward learning, the process that can lay the foundation for addiction. The team showed that opioid pain relief could be preserved even when drug-related preferences failed to form.

In this candid conversation, Dr. Mary E. Klotman, executive vice president for health affairs of Duke University, dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, and chief academic officer of Duke Health, sits down with Dr. David W. Zaas, chief executive officer of Duke University Health System, to talk about what's ahead.

The tool, called Raygun in a nod to science fiction, can create shorter, longer, and highly modified versions of proteins while preserving their structure and function. The findings, published in Nature, open new possibilities for protein engineering and drug development.

Missed mortgage payments? Drop in credit score? Researchers find new markers for suicide risk.

The teen years may be a critical window when the gut microbiome and its influence on weight is still taking shape and more open to change.

A new study suggests what’s flushed down the drain can offer a real-time snapshot of what communities are eating.  

When Max Bucklan opened an e-newsletter from the Duke Graduate School last March, his eyes landed on three words that “stopped me dead in my tracks,” he said. The three words? Biomedical video contest.  

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