More than 210,000 people in North Carolina have Alzheimer's disease, and many others have other types of dementia. The North Carolina Registry for Brain Health aims to help relieve the burden by educating North Carolinians, giving them an opportunity to participate in research, and helping researchers recruit study volunteers.
Scientists at Duke University School of Medicine have long probed the mysteries of RNA, with an eye to harnessing its power for new and better therapies for cancer, diabetes, heart disease and more.
Pediatric heart surgeon Joseph Turek, MD, PhD, loves the technical challenges of operating on hearts the size of strawberries, but he also wants to have an impact beyond the individual babies and families he helps at Duke. Turek wants to change the field of pediatric cardiac surgery.
As North Carolina's foster care system faces a perfect storm of challenges, Duke Psychiatry provides support to help foster children and their families thrive.
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