DURHAM, NC -- Most published research about coronary stents does not reveal information about authors' financial relationships that might bias their interpretation of scientific data, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center.

One blocked brain enzyme helped mice to lose weight, suppress appetite, and better manage their blood sugar levels.

Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have shown a connection between early drinking patterns and a tendency to be a heavy drinker in adulthood, in a study of adolescent rats.

Doing a job that is intellectually demanding creates thinking abilities that pay dividends into retirement -- regardless of intelligence or years of education, according to new research from the Duke University Medical Center.

DURHAM, NC -- The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI), a growing, broad-based coalition of organizations dedicated to modernizing the way clinical trials are conducted in the United States, has named a 12-member Executive Board that will oversee its activities.

Duke University Medical Center researchers have discovered that a crucial communications pathway in cells not only stops cells from making proteins, it also makes them go.

Duke University researchers have made a major advance in understanding how bacteria divide, which could lead to new antibiotic treatments that prevent dangerous bacteria from multiplying.

DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at the Duke School of Medicine apparently have solved the riddle of why cancer cells like sugar so much, and it may be a mechanism that could lead to better cancer treatments.

DURHAM, NC, and NEW YORK, NY -- Two global research organizations dedicated to designing a vaccine against HIV -- the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), and the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) -- have signed an agreement to work together to address major biological questions that have slowed development of a safe, effective and affordable AIDS vaccine