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MSN Students Tend to Veteran Clients Through Telemental Health Services
Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) students have been able to expand their skill set and stay on track in light of the pandemic due to a mass adaptation of telehealth.
Building a New Behavioral Health Center for our Community
We’re thrilled to announce the April 2021 opening of the Duke Behavioral Health Center North Durham at Duke Regional Hospital. Part of the largest construction project in the history of Duke Regional Hospital, the center brings together Duke emergency, outpatient, inpatient and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) behavioral health services in one spectacular new building.
Duke Science and Technology: Pyroptotic Cell Death
Duke's Ed Miao, MD, PhD, a professor in the Departments of Immunology, Molecular Genetics, and Biology, was the first to demonstrate that pyroptosis (cellular suicide) is real and clears intracellular bacteria. More basic science research is needed, however, to understand why pyroptosis can occur in normal, non-infected cells, which could be implicated for sepsis.
A Family Legacy for Duke Cancer
Ever since Duke Cancer Institute helped Meg Lindenberger survive breast cancer more than a decade ago, she and her husband, Bill, have been faithful supporters.
HOPE: Having Only Positive Expectations
In 2011, Katie Corun was in her third semester of nursing school in Maryland when she began having personality changes—moodiness and anger. Neither she nor her husband of seven months, Ron, or her mother, Kathy, could figure out what was going on.
Beating the Odds
Nicole McGuinness was 29 in December 2015 when she woke up already an hour late for her government relations job. She had blood on her shirt, and her tongue was swollen.
Bursting the Bubble
A new clinical program gets Duke medical students off campus and into the community to serve.
Duke Nursing Students Make a Difference in Guatemala
As students at Duke University School of Nursing, Lindsay Salisbury and Shelby Strockbine entered their third semester with a new perspective on the importance of global health and their roles as future nurses.
New Gift to Duke Continues Support for Early-Career Physician-Scientists
Yvonne Mowery, MD, PhD, Butler Harris Assistant Professor in Radiation Oncology, is one of many physician-scientists at Duke who credits the Duke University School of Medicine’s Strong Start Program for her career growth.
Turning a Terrifying Ordeal into an Opportunity to Help
Turning a Terrifying Ordeal into an Opportunity to Help