Cara Gillotti

Georgia Spence wore contacts for more than a decade. After LASIK surgery at the Duke Eye Center, her vision is better than perfect, and she no longer has to…

A promising treatment called pulsed electric field (PEF) ablation is offering hope to people with lung cancer or cancers metastasized to the lungs who haven’t…

Writer Mark Schreiner’s routine was upended after a bicycle accident left him with broken fingers and broken bones in his hand, unable to work for three months…

Jessi Wood was a young mother of four when a stroke left her paralyzed on her left side. Following advanced nerve surgery at Duke Health with peripheral nerve…

When avid tennis player Joseph Mesiano, 73, was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, he got an appointment at Duke Cancer Center Raleigh right away. Three years…

When baby Kara Pace needed a liver transplant, a friend of the family stepped up to donate part of her liver. After undergoing the first robotic liver…

To diagnose and treat his eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), Richard Best, 15, has undergone multiple endoscopies -- procedures in which a narrow, flexible tube…

Camden Fisher was three years old when she was diagnosed with cavernous malformations, also known as cavernomas. The tangled bundles of small, thin-walled…

David Sabio was 48 when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. After aggressive treatment at Duke Health including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, he…

Lately, researchers have seen an alarming increase in the number of women aged 55 and younger being diagnosed with lung cancer. According to Duke medical…

Nerve transfer surgery can restore sensation, mobility, and pain-free function to people with nerve injury whose nerves can’t recover on their own. Here, Duke…