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May 26, 2021What the World of Health Data Has to Learn from a Turbulent Time in U.S. Financial History
In 1809, the Farmers Exchange Bank of Chepachet, Rhode Island found itself having issued $560,000 worth of bank notes with only $86....
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April 29, 2021Focus on the destination, not the seatbelts.
Eric D. Perakslis, PhD
Imagine visiting the local pub and sitting next to a hobbit, recently arrived via wizard from Middle Earth, who has never seen an...
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April 22, 2021By: Brinnae BentAs she prepares for the next phase of her academic career, Duke Forge Scholar Brinnae Bent, PhD, looks back on her time at Duke and her work in the fast-growing field of digital health.
Nearly 2 years ago, I wrote an...
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January 6, 2021
“When fixing an aircraft you don’t want to design in the next crash”
The morning of...
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September 28, 2020
At this point, it’s clear that we’ll need a significant amount of positive energy to come out on top of 2020. Three quarters done, and the year feels like 24/7 media coverage of a reality show about speed-dating the Four Horsemen of the...
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July 13, 2020Disparities in Cancer Research After COVID-19: Charting the Course from Inspiration to Intervention
When I open my eyes in the morning, hours before my family wakes up, I need a few minutes to collect my bearings. The question...
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June 25, 2020
By Eric Perakslis, PhD & Erich S. Huang, MD, PhD
As states try to reopen their economies against a background of surging COVID cases, we’ve been reminded why we are all taught as children not to run into a burning building,...
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May 19, 2020By: Yousuf Zafar, MDFor years, I—like a great many other clinicians who care for patients with cancer— have wondered what it would take to change the way we deliver and pay for cancer care. While the medical science of oncology has evolved rapidly in recent years,...
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May 9, 2020
Introducing a Two-Part Series
“Are we there yet?”
A question both expected and dreaded by parents everywhere. Usually asked about 10 minutes into a long drive or flight, it not only reflects our children’...
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May 8, 2020By: Rabail Baig, MACreativity and insight were on display as a panel of judges announced the winners of the Duke ASA DataFest: COVID-19 Virtual Data Challenge on May 5th. The contest,...