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In January 2024, Duke University launched a celebration of its centennial — a historic opportunity to recognize Duke’s extraordinary past, communicate the impact of the present, and look toward Duke's potential impact going forward.

On Thursday, April 14, 2022, DCI clinical providers, patients, researchers, staff, and leadership came together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center (now called Duke Cancer Institute).

In 1972, William T. Creasman, MD, established the Division of Gynecologic Oncology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke, becoming the division’s first chief. The rest is history.

More than 1.5 million women in the U.S. are currently on endocrine therapies (hormone therapies) for breast cancer. These drugs and drug combinations have been found to work well, in some cases for many years, until they don’t.

Despite clinical guidelines advising against intensive or invasive end-of-life care, more than half of patients with terminal ovarian cancer will receive a least one aggressive intervention near the end of life.

In 1972, William T. Creasman, MD, established the Division of Gynecologic Oncology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke, becoming the division’s first chief. And the rest is history.

It’s the number two cancer killer in the U.S. after lung cancer. While cases are down, the number of new diagnoses in the under-50 crowd have been rising. Yousuf Zafar, MD, MHS, FASCO, weighs in on the troubling trends.

Nearly two years since the 2014 attack on Gaza, San Francisco Bay Area child psychiatrist Bahar Hashemi, MD, talked about what she learned on her recent trip to Gaza about the effects of perpetual trauma on the children there.

Has Nostra Aetate – the Catholic Church’s declaration on relations with non-Christian religions — stood the test of time?

[Column » 'By the Book' by JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN for ISLAMiCommentary] How did the rise of nation-states in the 20th century doom religious diversity and pluralism in the Middle East?

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How did the rise of nation-states in the 20th century doom religious diversity and pluralism in the Middle East? And, can pluralism be recovered to heal and transform the Middle East? Veteran journalist Nicolas Pelham considers these questions.

The new anthology, co-edited by Mbaye Lo, grew out of a workshop hosted by the Duke Islamic Studies Center in Fall 2013 on “Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa: Their History, Mission and Role in Regional Development.”

Mara Leichtman's latest book is "Shi‘i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa: Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal." Senegal is predominantly Sunni Muslim. While Shi‘i Muslims make up only a small minority, the number is growing.

The motto of the Kingdom of Morocco is “Allah, al-Watan, al-Malik” (God, the Nation, the King). This motto was the spark for Yale University professor Jonathan Wyrtzen’s new book, "Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity."

Are Muslims embraced as part of the mosaic of Europe? Or, are they considered and treated as outsiders,…

Following an event at Duke, policy analyst, journalist, and scholar Raza Rumi speaks, in an interview with ISLAMiCommentary, about countering violent extremism in the Middle East and in Pakistan.