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Jan 6, 2025 | 
medschool.duke.edu | Shantell Kirkendoll
More than half of patients with heart disease are not hitting cholesterol targets, leaving them at greater risk for heart attack and strokes, according to a new study by Duke University School of Medicine. About 25% of the U.S. population has high cholesterol, which contributes to 3.2 million deaths a year.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
medschool.duke.edu | Shantell Kirkendoll |Levi Gadye
Our noses can effortlessly distinguish the aroma of coffee from the tang of gasoline, yet how they do it has long been a mystery. In a study that appears Oct. 30 in Nature, scientists at Duke University School of Medicine, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and City of Hope provide a glimpse into the complex mechanics that enable the nose to decode an astonishing range of odors with precision.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder |Shantell Kirkendoll
A drug commonly used to prevent asthma attacks does not speed recovery from symptoms of mild to moderate COVID-19, a national study coordinated by Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) has found. The study was part of the National Institutes of Health Accelerating Coronavirus Disease 2019 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV-6) platform, which is testing whether existing drugs can be “repurposed” to treat COVID-19 in the outpatient setting.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
medschool.duke.edu | Shantell Kirkendoll
Kidney disease is typically linked to conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure, which gradually wear down the kidneys’ delicate systems that keep the body in balance. But the communities that Duke University researchers Nishad Jayasundara , PhD, and nephrologist Anna Strasma , MD, study are facing a different problem.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
medschool.duke.edu | Shantell Kirkendoll |Alissa Kocer
Health experts at Duke University School of Medicine are scrutinizing the myriad ways in which shifting environmental conditions, from sweltering temperatures to severe storms, shape our well-being. In university laboratories, North Carolina homes and on the coastlines of faraway places, they've learned not everyone is equally at risk.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
phys.org | Shantell Kirkendoll
In the narrative about climate change, we often focus on the big and visible—like shrinking glaciers and churning hurricanes. But there's another world, microscopic and hidden, that's just as crucial and the focus of a new study by Amy Gladfelter, Ph.D., a cell biologist at Duke University School of Medicine.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Shantell Kirkendoll
A new mathematical model offers hope for better prediction and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Most mathematical models of Alzheimer's are theoretical, focusing on short term molecular and cellular-level changes that cannot be measured in patients. However, researchers at Duke University School of Medicine and Pennsylvania State University have used real-world data from over 800 people with varying cognitive abilities, to develop the Alzheimer's Disease Biomarker Cascade (ADBC) model.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
medschool.duke.edu | Shantell Kirkendoll
A new mathematical model offers hope for better prediction and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Most mathematical models of Alzheimer’s are theoretical, focusing on short term molecular and cellular-level changes that cannot be measured in patients. However, researchers at Duke University School of Medicine and Pennsylvania State University have used real-world data from over 800 people with varying cognitive abilities, to develop the Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Cascade (ADBC) model.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
medicalxpress.com | Shantell Kirkendoll
Cancer patients who receive radiation during their treatment—and about half do—may face a lesser-known challenge: bone loss. The vital treatment for cancers of the head and neck, breast, cervix, prostate, and even eyes can harm the cells that keep bones strong. But Duke University School of Medicine and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new strategy to protect bones during cancer treatment using a unique drug delivery system with tiny carriers.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
medschool.duke.edu | Shantell Kirkendoll
Researchers at Duke University are providing fresh insights on how our brains remember. Based on brain images and memory tests, the Duke study published Nov. 27 in the Journal of Neuroscience reveals a finely tuned memory dance choreographed by the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center. The hippocampus doesn’t store detailed object information.
