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Duke, UNC work to improve health care
By KRISTEN VALLE | April 21Despite their bitter rivalries in all things sports, UNC and Duke University are making important strides — together — in the way of health research. The two universities’ medical schools have collaborated for years on projects that have earned them top national rankings and more research dollars. “We do collaborate a lot with Duke,” said Dr. Eugene Orringer, a medical professor at UNC who researches sickle-cell anemia. “We’ve worked very hard to build those collaborations.”