| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.08.2025 | American Heart Association Launches Virtual Care Program to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions | What You Should Know:
– With chronic disease rates rising and nearly one in four heart failure patients readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge, healthcare systems face ongoing challenges in reducing hospital stays and readmi... |
| 17.07.2025 | Researchers try new ways of preserving more hearts for transplants | Circulatory death occurs when someone has a nonsurvivable brain injury but because all brain function hasn’t ceased, the family decides to withdraw life support and the heart stops. That means organs can spend a while without oxygen before ... |
| 17.05.2025 | Duke Health's Bold Moves: Pioneering AI Governance and Specialty Pharmacy Solutions | In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, Duke Health is making waves. Two recent partnerships highlight its commitment to innovation and patient care. First, a collaboration with Avanade aims to launch the Smart AI Governance Engine (S... |
| 15.05.2025 | Avanade and Duke Health Partner to Launch AI Governance Platform, SAIGE | What You Should Know:
– Avanade, a Microsoft solutions provider, and Duke Health announced a strategic partnership to design, build, and implement Avanade’s Smart AI Governance Engine (SAIGE).
– SAIGE is a first-of-its-kind, healthcare-spec... |
| 14.05.2025 | Shields Health Solutions, Duke Health to Advance Specialty Pharmacy in North Carolina | What You Should Know:
– Shields Health Solutions (Shields), the nation’s premier specialty pharmacy accelerator, announced a significant partnership with Duke Health, a leading academic health system in North Carolina.
– The expansion of Du... |
| 03.05.2025 | 5 sleep trends experts think you should (and shouldn’t) try | Dr Sujay Kansagra spends enough time on social media to have opinions about even the most obscure sleep hacks. Often, said Dr Kangsagra, who is a sleep physician at Duke Health, they aren’t backed by strong scientific evidence.
This is espe... |
| 25.02.2025 | AI Impact
Athenahealth to offer Abridge’s AI scribe to its network of thousands of doctors | Athenahealth on Tuesday announced it will offer Abridge’s artificial intelligence scribing tool to its network of more than 160,000 clinicians.
The company introduced a solution called Ambient Notes in October that allows doctors to choose ... |
| 21.02.2025 | The Rising Tide of Adult Autism Diagnoses: Understanding the Shift | In recent years, a wave of adults has begun to seek autism diagnoses. This surge is not just a trend; it reflects a deeper understanding of neurodiversity. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is often associated with childhood diagnoses. However... |
| 21.02.2025 | NAVER D2SF-Backed PranaQ® Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for TipTraQ, an AI-Enabled Home Sleep Apnea Test | SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- PranaQ, backed by NAVER D2SF continues to push the boundaries of AI-powered healthcare solutions. NAVER D2SF, NAVER's corporate venturing arm, actively collaborates with startups to drive in... |
| 12.12.2024 | Back trouble and brain fog bothered suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing, his posts show | The killing has nonetheless prompted widespread speculation about whether he had a bad personal experience with the health care system. But after his 2023 surgery, Mangione’s Reddit posts suggest he was overwhelmingly pleased with the outco... |
| 04.11.2024 | The Role of North Carolina in the Development of Artificial Intelligence | Share
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping industries and our daily lives, from smart devices to healthcare and even the way we drive. It’s a field that’s growing fast, and while states like California and New Y... |
| 11.10.2024 | Microsoft Expands AI Capabilities to Shape a Healthier Future | Microsoft Corp. is unveiling several Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare innovations that connect care experiences, enhance team collaboration, empower healthcare workers, and unlock clinical and operational insights.
Also Read: The Rise of Dece... |
| 19.07.2024 | Isabella Strahan, the daughter of Michael Strahan, announces she is cancer-free | How you can help fight in the battle against childhood cancer
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Isabella Strahan, the daughter of NFL legend Michael Strahan, has announced she is cancer-free. The 19-year-ol... |
| 23.05.2024 | Epic releases first open-source tool to test, monitor AI models | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Health records giant Epic this week released its first open-source tool meant to help health systems test and monitor the performance of EHR-integrated AI models.
Why it matters: As AI-powered health ... |
| 16.05.2024 | Isabella Santos Foundation Ignites the TORCH Initiative to Drive Greater Reach in Fight Against Rare Pediatric Cancers | ISF Announces the TORCH Initiative
ISF proudly announces the public launch of the TORCH Initiative, an effort aimed at accelerating basic science, clinical trials and survivorship programs for rare pediatric cancer heroes at children's hosp... |
| 24.04.2024 | Prevent Blindness Declares May as First-ever Inherited Retinal Disease (IRD) Genetic Testing Awareness Month | Prevent Blindness declares the month of May as "Inherited Retinal Disease Genetic Testing Awareness Month."
Prevent Blindness expands IRD and genetic testing awareness initiative to educate patients on various forms of IRDs, and t... |
| 03.04.2024 | Health | More women are drinking themselves sick. The Biden administration is concerned | Lauren Sausser | KFF Health News (TNS)
When Karla Adkins looked in the rearview mirror of her car one morning nearly 10 years ago, she noticed the whites of her eyes had turned yellow.
She was 36 at the time and working as a physician liais... |
| 21.03.2024 | More women are drinking themselves sick. The Biden administration is concerned. | When Karla Adkins looked in the rearview mirror of her car one morning nearly 10 years ago, she noticed the whites of her eyes had turned yellow.
She was 36 at the time and working as a physician liaison for a hospital system on the South C... |
| 12.03.2024 | First-of-kind Pediatric ECG Data Warehouse for Use in Pediatric Product Development Programs and Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young | Contributed by Shetarra Walker, MD, MSCR, Lead Physician and Clinical Team Leader, Office of Rare Disease, Pediatrics, Urologic and Reproductive Medicine, CDER, and Salim F. Idriss, MD, PhD, Executive Co-Director, Duke Pediatric and Congeni... |
| 02.10.2023 | What Experts Want You to Know About Eye Health–Answers Will Surprise You | John Lopez, Tech Times 02 October 2023, 10:10 am
Many of us may not pay as much attention as we should to our eye health. But fresh insights from leading eye experts have shed light on some important things we all need to know.
At the 2023 ... |
| 27.07.2023 | Mitch McConnell’s abrupt episode has an important public health takeaway | The handling of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s abrupt medical issue this week is raising concerns among medical experts that the event sent a potentially dangerous public-health message — that when someone experiences an episode w... |
| 15.03.2022 | PatientIQ to Launch Nation’s Largest Hip Arthroscopy Quality Improvement Program | With the breadth of the PatientIQ platform’s functionality and clinical network, HipSTR is uniquely empowered to help advance orthopedic surgical practice.
CHICAGO (PRWEB) March 15, 2022
PatientIQ, a leader in patient-reported outcomes coll... |
| 19.03.2021 | How to treat and sleep better with a stuffy nose | Stuffed up noses can be caused by infection, but dry air and your sleeping position may also be to blame. raquel arocena torres/ Getty Images A stuffy nose isn’t always caused by an infection; it can be due to the weather and allergies too.... |
| 26.11.2020 | The differences between soluble fibre and insoluble fibre and why both are equally important for your health | Soluble and insoluble fibre both improve gut health and digestion pixelfit/ Getty Images
Soluble and insoluble fibre are equally important for your health and one is no better than the other for general well-being.
Soluble fibre dissolves a... |
| 07.01.2020 | New Technologies Focus on Sharper Artificial Sight | Staff Reporter, Tech Times 07 January 2020, 11:01 pm
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In 2014, a futuristic treatment brought some version of vision to the blind. A device called Argus II transmits signals from cameras mounted on glasses to a tiny grid o... |
| 27.02.2017 | Durham’s TrackX Technologies Raises $4.6 Million in Equity | Durham-based biotechnology company TrackX Technology LLC reported it sold a $4.6 million equity stake in the company.
The portion of equity has 23 investors in total, and the company said it would use the proceeds for “working capital, whic... |
| 27.02.2017 | Durham’s TrackX Technologies Raises $4.6 Million in Equity | Durham-based biotechnology company TrackX Technology LLC reported it sold a $4.6 million equity stake in the company.
The portion of equity has 23 investors in total, and the company said it would use the proceeds for “working capital, whic... |
| 05.08.2016 | Who scored a spot in Startupbootcamp’s digital health accelerator? | It’s been a busy week in the world of digital health accelerators between the departure of Healthbox CEO and Founder Nina Nashif to the move by 500 Startups to launch a formal digital health track after years of investing in startups that s... |
| 12.12.2013 | The ultimate wearables gift guide | Nerds and non-nerds alike are overwhelming Santa this year with requests for wearable technologies, those mini electronic devices that are worn with (or on top of) clothing.
We can’t get enough of wearables, including smartwatches, fitness ... |
| 12.04.2012 | Personalized medicine: A long path, uncertain directions and distant goals | If personalized medicine’s promise isn’t easily understood, Dr. Kristin Newby can readily explain it through her clinical practice.
The cardiologist at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina routinely sees patients who... |
| 30.03.2012 | Personalized medicine’s promise and challenges discussed at Duke forum | Green was among the speakers at a March 29 personalized medicine symposium at Duke University. Duke’s Center for Personalized Medicine coordinated the program entitled “At the Interface of Clinical Research and Clinical Medicine.” The sympo... |
| 01.12.2011 | Duke gets $37M in AIDS research grants from Gates Foundation | Dr. Baton Haynes, director of the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and also director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, will receive $11.7 million over three years to study the best way to create immunogens that mimic proteins on th... |
| 27.10.2011 | Duke University gets $25M grant to research genetics of epilepsy | “This grant allows us to study the genomes of epilepsy patients on a sufficiently large scale that we should be able to identify many new genes involved in the risk of epilepsy,” principal investigator David Goldstein said in a prepared sta... |
| 30.06.2011 | Why the Alaina Giordano case should worry the healthcare industry | “I am not cancer,” Giordano has said.
But that popular assumption – that her cancer’s has had a major impact on this case – is wrong. And healthcare professionals nationwide should be paying particular attention to what’s happening. Overemp... |
| 20.06.2011 | Best Buy invests in N.C. mobile fitness earbud technology; leads $5.5M round | Valencell has developed earbuds that have the technology to track physiological metrics such as heart rate, calories burned, steps taken, distance traveled and speed. The data can be tracked in real time while the user listens to music or t... |
| 23.05.2011 | Duke University research finds cells that target Dengue fever | “It appears the mast cells are activated and call immune system cells to the skin where they clear infection, which limits the spread of infection in the host,” lead researcher Ashley St. John, a research fellow with Duke-NUS in the Program... |
| 06.05.2011 | Ailing MedCath sells its last North Carolina hospital asset | MedCath owns and operates specialty hospitals that diagnose and treat cardiovascular conditions. MedCath maintains a Charlotte headquarters, which houses management and other services supporting its hospital network. But the healthcare serv... |
| 05.05.2011 | MedCath sells cath lab division for $25M to Duke/LifePoint joint venture | “As an operator of non-urban facilities, we understand the importance of being able to provide quality healthcare and specialized services to patients close to their homes,” DLP Healthcare President Jone Koford said in a statement. “Having ... |
| 13.10.2009 | Cincinnati’s Akebia Therapeutics races (as safely as possible) toward new anemia treatment | Akebia is in a race to develop its drug against other treatments supported by the likes of GlaxoSmithKline and Takeda Pharmaceuticals that are further along in their trials. The company thinks it can make up ground. Plus, even if it isn’t f... |
| 02.09.2009 | Akebia adds Dr. Victor Dzau, Duke Health CEO, to board of directors | Promoted
Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal... |
| - | Duke gets $37M in AIDS research grants from Gates Foundation | AIDS research efforts at Duke University have landed three grants totaling $37.2 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The grants will fund Duke University Medical Center HIV work in the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discov... |
| - | Best Buy invests in N.C. mobile fitness earbud technology; leads $5.5M round | Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) is making a bet on the prospects of a mobile health and fitness technology offering developed by North Carolina startup Valencell.
Best Buy Capital, the venture capital arm of the consumer electronics retail giant, led a... |
| - | Personalized medicine: A long path, uncertain directions and distant goals | If personalized medicine’s promise isn’t easily understood, Dr. Kristin Newby can readily explain it through her clinical practice.
The cardiologist at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina routinely sees patients who... |
| - | Who scored a spot in Startupbootcamp’s digital health accelerator? | A startup accelerator based in London has selected 10 members for its first digital health cohort in the U.S. The participants for Startupbootcamp in Miami include pre-seed and later stage companies developing technology ranging from the us... |
| - | MedCath sells cath lab division for $25M to Duke/LifePoint joint venture | Hospital operator MedCath Corp. (NASDAQ:MDTH) has completed the $25 million sale of most of the assets of its cardiac catheterization lab division to a joint venture of LifePoint Hospitals and Duke University Health System.
MedCath’s cath l... |
| - | Personalized medicine’s promise and challenges discussed at Duke forum | For those counting, today is day 3,273 since the sequencing of the human genome was completed.
Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, is among those counting. Medicine based on genomic information promises new... |
| - | Duke University research finds cells that target Dengue fever | Duke University researchers have found that cells that play a role in triggering a response to bacteria and pathogens could also have a role in attacking dengue fever, a tropical disease for which there is no vaccine.
A Duke research team a... |
| - | Cincinnati’s Akebia Therapeutics races (as safely as possible) toward new anemia treatment | CINCINNATI, Ohio — As Procter & Gamble started the slow dismantling of its pharmaceutical division three years ago, Akebia Therapeutics was there to pick up some pieces.
At that time, Akebia was largely Joseph Gardner –Â who was leaving... |
| - | Duke University gets $25M grant to research genetics of epilepsy | Duke University Medical Center has been awarded a $25 million federal grant to research epilepsy in an effort to understand its genetic roots and develop new treatments for the disorder.
The National Institute of Neurological Diseases and S... |
| - | Why the Alaina Giordano case should worry the healthcare industry | Cancer is a lot of things. But it’s not the reason Alaina Giordano’s children may wind up living with their father.
If Giordano’s name doesn’t immediately ring any bells in the medical community, her case should. Giordano is the Durham, Nor... |
| - | Ailing MedCath sells its last North Carolina hospital asset | MedCath (NASDAQ:MDTH) has sold another piece of its fragmenting hospital network — and its last remaining piece in North Carolina.
New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, has purchased MedCath’s ownership stake an... |
| - | Akebia adds Dr. Victor Dzau, Duke Health CEO, to board of directors | CINCNNATI, Ohio — Dr. Victor Dzau, the president and CEO of the Duke University Health System, has joined the board of directors of Akebia Therapeutics.
This adds heavyweight talent to some significant fund-raising by Akebia. Last month it ... |
