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Findings from a phase I study treating 11 patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) with a combination of an investigational vaccine therapy and an approved chemotherapy drug were published in Clinical Cancer Research.

​​​​​​​In his capacity as vice chair of quality of Duke’s Department of Neurosurgery, neurosurgeon Oren Gottfried, MD, has helped develop numerous quality initiatives focusing on improving patient satisfaction and surgical outcomes and reducing patient morbidity and mortality.

Duke neurosurgeons visit Uganda twice a year to help train surgeons. This time, they also brought eight middle school boys with them.

Duke Raleigh Hospital is one of a handful in NC that offers lifesaving thrombectomy for stroke. Dara Damery got transferred there from Wilmington just in time.

Herbert E. Fuchs, MD, is a Pediatric Neurosurgeon and a licensed pilot who lends his multi-faceted expertise to Children’s Flight of Hope.

Alexandria Thompson speaks multiple languages. She also suffers from severe seizures that force her mind to switch to Spanish.

A new procedure at Duke Raleigh Hospital can help lessen the effects of a stroke.

Neurosurgeons and engineers at Duke are working to make emergency neurosurgical procedures safer with the help the HoloLens, a new pair of augmented reality (AR) goggles from Microsoft.

For two years, “60 Minutes” followed a clinical trial at Duke University that uses a re-engineered polio virus to attack glioblastoma.

A therapy using the polio virus to attack glioblastoma has been granted breakthrough status by the Food and Drug Administration. The early results have proven so successful that the FDA wanted to speed the treatment to the market.