In the News

• NC’s Maternal Health Gap Takes Center Stage

  Includes remarks by Keisha Bentley-Edwards, a developmental psychologist and assistant professor of medicine

  December 11, 2019

  North Carolina Health News

• Cutting-Edge Chemo Delivery for Colorectal Cancer

  Covers a new treatment offered at Duke University Medical Center; quotes Dr.

  December 11, 2019

  WFMZ-Allentown

• Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Offers Tours for People With Dementia

  Reports on the Reflections Program, a partnership with Duke’s Family Support Program

  December 10, 2019

  WRAL

• Brain Differences May Be Tied to Obesity, Kids’ Study Says

  Quotes Dr. Eliana Perrin, a pediatrics professor who co-wrote an accompanying editorial

  December 10, 2019

  ABC News, Associated Press

• Health Experts Warn of Emerging Threat of Nipah Virus

  Previews a conference of global health and infectious disease specialists being co-hosted by the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore

  December 09, 2019

  New York Times, Reuters

• Families Reeling After FDA Rejects Therapy for Kids Without a Thymus

  Quotes pediatrics professor Dr.

  December 06, 2019

  STAT

• My Wife’s Life Is Priceless. But Her Chemotherapy Drugs Are Too Expensive

  Commentary by Dr. Peter Ubel, a physician and behavioral scientist

  December 06, 2019

  Los Angeles Times

• Comedian Lauren Faber Keeps Upsetting Her Therapists

  Interview with the research administrator

  December 06, 2019

  WUNC’s ‘The State of Things’

• Researchers May Have Found the Roadmap to an HIV Vaccine

  Interview with assistant professor Kevin Saunders, an immunologist and a lead author of a new study

  December 06, 2019

  WBUR-Boston

• Historic Heart Transplant

  Reports on the procedure, noting that “doctors at Duke University are celebrating a medical first in this country” (16:20 mark)

  December 05, 2019

  ‘CBS Evening News’