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Editor’s note: This article is part of WRAL Local Tech Wire’s highlighting of research at universities across the Carolinas and Georgia. DURHAM, NC — A 10-cent pill doesn’t kill pain as well as a $2.50 pill, even when they are identical placebos, according to a provocative study by Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at Duke University. "Physicians want to think it’s the medicine and not their enthusiasm about a particular drug that makes a drug more therapeutically effective, but now we really have to worry about the nuances of interaction between patients and physicians," said Ariely, whose findings appear as...

Editor’s note: This article is part of WRAL Local Tech Wire’s highlighting of research at universities across the Carolinas and Georgia.DURHAM – A new monthly publication called Duke Research isn’t exactly a magazine and it isn’t exactly a website — but it is online. Created by Duke’s Office of News and Communication (ONC), the periodical website and email newsletter highlights the personalities and projects that have helped Duke become one of the nation’s largest research universities. Its coverage will range from biomedical and engineering advances to studies of global climate change, gun violence and consumer behavior. Readers will meet...

Editor’s note: WRAL Local Tech Wire recently added more sources for news, including stories, photos and graphics produced by the news services of various universities. Such stories are labeled as UniversityTech and with the appropriate source. By adding stories and information from collegiate news services, LTW is enhancing significantly its coverage of scientific and research efforts at regional universities where many of tomorrow’s discoveries are being made and the foundations of new companies are in the process of being created.DURHAM, N.C. – The National Institute for General Medical Sciences has awarded Duke University a $14.5 million, five-year grant to...