Smoking has health consequences, even after you quit. Screening to detect lung cancer early increases the chances of survival, and a new surgical procedure being pioneered at Duke University Medical ...

Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Hospital has successfully performed the country’s first pediatric heart transplant using the donation after circulatory death method, the hospital said Sept. 9. The ...

Most transplanted hearts are from donors who are brain-dead, but new research shows a different approach can be just as successful and boost the number of available organs. It's called donation after ...

DURHAM, N.C. — I am not alone because I found love. Duke freshman Justise Winslow wrote that on his skin with a dry-erase marker, words that he'd later explain represented someone close to him dying. ...