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Dr. Laura Richman is Defining Health by its Social Determinates

WEBIn 2010, the Affordable Care Act sparked a nationwide debate on the extent of responsibility the American government has over our healthcare. But Dr. Laura …

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What are Healthcare Researchers Doing to Address Health Equity

WEBDr. Schenita Davis Randolph, a registered nurse and professor at the Duke School of Nursing, zoomed in a little to highlight what true community engagement looks …

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How is Universal Healthcare Like the Waterboarding Debate

WEBThe Duke Medical Ethics Journal (DMEJ) is an undergraduate publication started in Spring of 2020 that examines conversations around universal patient-doctor …

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Trust-Building, Re-Visited History, and Time Pertinent to Achieve

WEBWinn began by referencing the U.S. 1932 public health service study that took place in Tuskegee, Alabama. The experiment exploited Black men in Tuskegee …

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Student Researchers Share What They Know About AI and Health

WEBHere’s what I learned: Artificial intelligence is a way of training computer systems to complete complex tasks that ordinarily require human thinking, like visual …

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Carrying on Dr. King's Legacy: The Fight for Equity in Obesity

WEBOn January 22, 2024. “Of all the forms of inequality” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said in a 1966 press conference, “injustice in health is the most shocking and the most …

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Benefits of Childhood Mental Health Intervention ‘Ripple Across

WEBSeventy percent of U.S. public schools reported an increase in the number of children seeking mental health services during the pandemic and many have struggled …

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Quantifying the effects of structural racism on health

WEBDr. Brown’s study posits that structural racism has five key tenets: it is multifaceted, interconnected, an institutionalized system, involves relational …

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Leveraging Google’s Technology to Improve Mental Health

WEBUnderlining the critical role Google plays in global mental health, Bell cited multiple statistics: three out of four people turn to the internet first for health information. …

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Scholars Examine Duke's History of Unequal Medical Care for Black

WEBDuke’s first Black medical student, Delano “Dale” Meriwether, arrived the same year the hospital began desegregation, 1963, and he was the first Black M.D. in …

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The HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Revisiting the Early Days of a Global …

WEBOn June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first cases of a mysterious disease afflicting young, otherwise healthy men in a tiny …

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A Patient’s and Doctor’s Perspective on Narrative Medicine

WEBCreighton, who has an MS in exercise physiology and has spent her career involved in clinical research and community health at both UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke, …

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Increasing Access to Care with the Help of Big Data

WEBArtificial intelligence (AI) and data science have the potential to revolutionize global health. But what exactly is AI and what hurdles stand in the way of more …

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Unions: They Do a Body Good

WEBA new Duke study suggests that labor unions are good for your health. The research finds that more unionized American workers consider themselves healthy than …

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Post-COVID Public Health is in a Trust Fall

WEBPost-COVID Public Health is in a Trust Fall. Dr. Heidi Larson, director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, described data from a recent Pew Center study, instructing …

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Doctors Share a Vision for Ending Preventable Blindness

WEBIn late September, the Duke Global Ophthalmology Program hosted the A Vision for Ending Preventable Blindness panel to address the global scope of vision …

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Introducing: The Duke Space Initiative

WEBAt Duke Polis’ “ Perspectives on Space: Introducing the Duke Space Initiative ” on Sept. 9, DSI co-founder and undergraduate student Ritika Saligram …

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Solving More Medical Device Challenges by Teaching Others How

WEBIn this class, interdisciplinary teams of graduate students, ranging from medicine to business, work together to design medical devices. They learn how to …

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Man's Best Friend, Our Relationship to Dogs

WEBIn a study of 975 adult dog owners, dogs ranked closely to romantic partners and above best friends, children, parents, and siblings when their owners were asked …

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It's a Bird It's a Plane It's Comic Medicine!

WEBIt’s Comic Medicine! By Alex Clifford. On December 6, 2023. Picture a comic book. Maybe you think of Superman or the Hulk, all cosmic green and razzmic berry, …

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Robin Smith, Author at Research Blog

WEBEllie Burton’s summer job might be described as “dental detective.” Using 3-D images of bones, she and teammates Kevin Kuo and GiSeok Choi are teaching a computer to …

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