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A Duke-led research team has identified a blood-based biomarker to diagnose Parkinson’s disease, which may lead to earlier disease detection.
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Researchers found chiggers carrying a bacterium that causes a disease called scrub typhus. The disease has not previously been reported in the U.S. No cases have been detected in North Carolina yet.
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Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with monkeypox virus, which is endemic to some African countries. Neither North nor South Carolina had identified a case as of Wednesday afternoon — but one health expert said it "wouldn't be a huge surprise."
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Following several measles outbreaks this winter, there is a movement among some states to make it more difficult for people to claim nonmedical exemptions to vaccine laws.
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According to the United Nations, more people are living with HIV than have died since the epidemic began in the 1980s. There have been large medical and…
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According to the United Nations, more people are living with HIV than have died since the epidemic began in the 1980s. There have been large medical and…
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It started with a whisper. The initial reports of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa came out as news releases on June 3, 2014, and there was not much…
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It started with a whisper. The initial reports of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa came out as news releases on June 3, 2014, and there was not much…
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Hailed as a "national hero," Dr. Sheik Umar Khan has treated more than 100 Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. Now the 39-year-old is fighting for his life in an isolation ward.
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Researchers at Duke University will become part of a national network focusing on undiagnosed diseases.The National Institutes of Health have granted $7.2…