Duke University is partnering with Verizon (NYSE:VZ) in a health IT initiative pursuing technologies intended to improve care, expand healthcare access and lower costs.The agreement pairs Duke’s research resources with Verizon Connected Healthcare Solutions, the telecom giant’s healthcare practice group. Duke will make available personnel, including research and project management experts. Intellectual property from the [...]

A smokeless nicotine-delivery system developed by a Duke University researcher is now in the hands of tobacco industry giant Philip Morris International (NYSE:PM).Philip Morris has purchased the patent and global rights to an aerosol nicotine-delivery system developed by Jed Rose, who is director of Duke’s Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research. Financial terms were [...]

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 at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore studied mast cells in mice. Mast cells [...]

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital veteran Dr. Michael Kastan has been named the new executive director of the Duke Cancer Institute.Kastan, a cancer scientist, is currently the director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at St. Jude in Memphis, Tennessee. He has directed the cancer center since 2004 and under his tenure, St. Jude became the [...]

Obesity’s link to diabetes is well documented and it comes as no surprise that bariatric surgery helps. But new research from Duke University and Columbia University finds that the weight loss surgery works in a way that is quite unexpected.Results of a study published in Science Translational Medicine show that bariatric surgery results in a [...]

Duke University has established a new $20 million biomedical endowment to support a program that has had a knack for launching new medical companies, focusing in particular on medical technology.The new endowment will allow the program to continue at Duke in perpetuity.Duke was one of nine universities chosen by the Coulter Foundation in 2005 [...]

They go head-to-head in just about everything else, but it’s likely that the brass at Boston Scientific and Medtronic both have the Blue Devils going all the way in March Madness. Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT) and Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) share a more than healthy rivalry when it comes to stents, pacemakers and other cardiovascular devices, but when it comes to basketball, it’s all Duke baby! That’s because the Dukies literally infest the front offices and boardrooms of the two medical device giants.

The prescription safety technology developed by North Carolina company Centice drew more than $22 million in investments over seven years, but the resulting product failed to draw many customers. Now Centice is looking to improve its prospects by adapting the technology for other applications.

Medical imaging technology company Bioptigen, based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, has received a warning that its hand-held imaging device for the eye is being marketed beyond the scope of its 510(k) clearance.

Duke University’s clinical research organization, the Duke Clinical Research Institute, is partnering with education company Kaplan on a new online training program aimed at workers doing clinical trial work overseas.