Opening Remarks Time Speakers and Session Titles 10:00 AM Opening Remarks Mary Klotman, MD Professor of Medicine; EVP Health Affairs, Duke University; Dean, School of Medicine; Chief Academic Officer, ...

The weight loss revolution has a surprising new star: glucagon, a hormone that has lived in insulin’s shadow. For nearly a century, glucagon occupied a familiar role in biology textbooks. Insulin ...

New weight-loss drugs that combine natural gut hormones are helping people lose significant weight and better control blood sugar, but scientists are still working to understand exactly how they work.

Elizabeth Ramirez-Washka, JD, associate general counsel for Duke University and Duke University Health System, credits her grandparents with teaching her to work hard, value education, and pay it ...

When I started PA school, I hoped to become the kind of clinician who could do more than diagnose and treat disease. I wanted to build relationships, serve communities, and make a meaningful ...

When I started PA school, I hoped to become the kind of clinician who could do more than diagnose and treat disease. I wanted to build relationships, serve communities, and make a meaningful ...

Duke researchers are leading a phase I clinical trial to evaluate a new experimental treatment for glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of brain cancer. The drug is a type of ...

If you’ve ever asked an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot about a health concern, you’re not alone; more than 230 million people do each year. You may have used one without knowing it; Google now ...

Evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer, PhD, thought he knew what he’d find when he traveled to Tanzania to live among the Hadza, one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer communities on Earth.

A new study is giving scientists fresh clues about why our muscles lose strength as we get older and why exercise remains one of the most reliable ways to fight it.

Over 50 million people in the United States suffer from some sort of chronic pain. For many, relief comes in the form of opioids, but opioids come with their own set of problems including addiction ...

For many people trying to lose weight, the “cheat meal” feels like a well-earned break from strict dieting — a chance to relax, enjoy something decadent and return to routine refreshed. The analysis ...