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Cigna joins Duke’s ACO

Cigna and Duke Connected Care have teamed up to form an ACO-like relationship that aims to improve population health of some 10,000 individuals in North Carolina covered by Cigna. The private market has been adopting its own versions of the Medicare-run program, looking to achieve the so-called triple aim of reduced cost, improved care and […]

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Researchers have grown the first contracting human skeletal muscle

Growing contracting human muscles that responds to stimuli like real tissue sounds more like science fiction than modern science. But it has officially been done, and this could mean a whole new world for testing pharmaceuticals and studying diseases. A new study out of Duke University led by Nenad Bursac, associate professor of biomedical engineering […]

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Duke digs for ‘geo data’

Duke University, and by extension its medical and nursing schools and hospitals, have teamed up with a former NASA worker on a big data system that, seemingly, will allow researchers to analyze “geospatial visualization,” essentially any group of patients with any health issue, in real time. Clinicians and researchers would be able to select, visualize […]