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In an unaired 1995 episode of The Jenny Jones Show, Jonathan Schmitz walked onto the stage. Awaiting him was Scott Amedure. There, in front of the audience, Amedure revealed that he had a gay crush on Schmitz, who is a heterosexual. Three days after the taping, Schmitz shot Amedure, killing him.
The Medical Center has delayed clinical trials of a promising breast cancer vaccine.
With mid-term season upon the University, undergraduates are working into all hours of the night and morning finishing projects, studying for tests and writing papers. Sleep is often a rare commodity at this time of year, and University researchers say such deprivation leads to negative physiological and emotional effects.
After 15 hours of surgery last month, doctors in Louisville, Kent., gave amputee Matthew Scott a new hand. The procedure marked the first hand transplant in the United States and the second in the world; Duke experts expressed reservations about the historic event.
Sometime in early November, my roommate and I saw a commercial for a video game. It featured a classic hero fighting beautifully rendered 3-D enemies in a quest to save a princess. A cliché story line, but nevertheless, when the commercial was over, we both turned to each other and uttered one word: "Damn." The game was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (aka Zelda 64) for the Nintendo 64. I had to play it.
Tapping into a promising new therapeutic technique for a host of pediatric disease, doctors and researchers at the Medical Center are collecting umbilical cord blood from recently-born babies.
Thanks to a new set of Duke-based research, medical science may be a step closer to understanding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Expectant fathers will no longer crowd Duke Hospital delivery rooms with video cameras, due to a recent policy forbidding the use of still or video cameras during delivery.
Many people in the populated Triangle area take accessible health-care for granted. A short one- to two-hour drive from Durham, however, there are communities where indoor plumbing is not a standard and a single doctor can serve as many as 2,000 residents.
This is the second in an occasional series examining the Medical Center's transition into a regional healthcare system.
Economic restitution is in sight for thousands of American women who received breast implants manufactured by Dow Corning; a $3.2-billion deal-mediated by University law professor Francis McGovern-has been brokered between the claimants and the chemical giant.
To survive medical school, medical students need all the help they can get. The School of Medicine decided three years ago that its students would have an additional tool: laptop computers that they must lease from the school.
Helium may soon be used for something a lot more important than balloons. Researchers at the Center for In Vivo Microscopy have developed a technique for taking detailed magnetic resonance images by circulating tiny bubbles of helium throughout the bloodstream, as detailed today in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
The people of Iraq are suffering continuous tragedy at the hands of sanctions imposed by the United Nations, said Rania Masri, founder and coordinator of the Iraq Action Coalition and a 1995 graduate of the School of the Environment, at a presentation Tuesday night.
A new cancer vaccine developed at the Center for Genetic and Cellular Therapies is poised to deliver a large blow in the war against cancer.
The battle lines have been drawn-and redrawn-but the major issues and the brand of conflict for North Carolina's fourth congressional district seat seem certain to remain the same.
Even though the crisis in Iraq loomed ominously in the minds of his audience, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations John Ruggie came to the Sanford Institute last night to talk about the United Nations, the United States and the future.
In the wake of recent Department of Transportation scandals, Gov. Jim Hunt has issued an executive order that strengthened the powers of the North Carolina Ethics Board.