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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>One year ago this past Saturday, Jésica Santillán died at Duke University Hospital after a second heart-lung transplant that was intended to correct an initial organ transplantation incompatible with her blood type. Although investigations ultimately determined that a failure to communicate basic information between more than a dozen people across multiple organizations was responsible for the Santillán incident, members of the medical community continue to reflect on the events surrounding her death.
In response to the Women's Initiative last fall, the School of Medicine has named Dr. Ann Brown, assistant professor of medicine and obstetrics and gynecology, as its first associate dean for women in medicine and science. As associate dean, Brown will work with women in the basic and clinical sciences to identify and improve aspects of the Medical School that make the environment challenging for women faculty.
A report presented by North Carolina health workers at the annual Conference on Retrovirus and Opportunistic Infections last week identified the first outbreak of HIV among college students since the virus was initially detected in 1981.
The Center for Human Genetics, under the umbrella Institute for Genome, Science and Policy since its inception in 1998, will no longer be administratively associated with the IGSP, officials said.
General Motors Corp. is beginning to imagine a world of cars no longer running on fossil fuels. To further their goal, the University will work with GM on a multi-year, interdisciplinary teaching and research project aimed at developing a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle by 2010, officials from both institutions announced last Tuesday.
United States Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., current chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, presented an optimistic analysis of the state of American foreign relations to a full house at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy Wednesday afternoon.
The Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy kicked off the new year with the formation of the Center for Genomic Medicine, the critical link connecting scientific research with practical health care models, officials said.
But that's not what she's thinking. In fact, that's not even on the radar screen of thoughts zooming a mile a minute in her head: the tests she wishes she could retake, the boy she hooked up with last night, the second-round interview she didn't get.... At least I've only eaten 400 calories today. She smiles, recomposing herself, and continues her walk along the cold, concrete pavement toward the Bryan Center.
Anticipating a third round of staff layoffs, Duke University Medical Center Library is bracing itself for yet another fiscal year of budget cuts, which translates directly into a smaller library staff, reduced hours of operation and fewer in-house resources.
Joseph Nevins, chair of the department of molecular genetics and microbiology, has been named director of the Center for Genome Technology, a center within the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy.
Duke University Medical Center researchers have called into question the routine practice of "thinning" the blood of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery in a study published by the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
Officials in Duke University Medical Center are working to combine the department of neurobiology and the clinical division of neurology to form a center in order to geographically centralize the basic sciences and clinical research in the field.
Despite the recent flurry of programs addressing "effortless perfection," there was standing room only Tuesday afternoon, as nearly 70 students and campus leaders squeezed into the McClendon Tower media room to listen to a presentation entitled "Effortless Perfection at Duke: The Emotional Costs of Perfectionism."
Attempting to fill the impressive shoes of the past chairs of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University Medical Center is no small challenge. But Dr. Haywood Brown, nabbed from the Indiana University School of Medicine last year to replace Dr. Charles Hammond as chair of the OB-GYN department, has been making big strides in those large shoes.
Tucked away in the intimate private dining room of the posh Parizade Cafe, a group of what first appeared to be the most unlikely combination of selected professors and students came together Monday evening to wine, dine and discuss genomics.
Smokers who have trouble quitting because they long for the act of smoking rather than the nicotine addiction that captures most many soon have another aid to help them kick the habit--a newly developed, low-nicotine cigarette.
Just 13-years-old, Derek Lawson knows what it feels like to be dependent on medical care to survive.
You are now a freshman.
Duke University Medical School received a $12 million award for the construction of a regional biocontainment laboratory from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as part of a new series of biodefense funding awards announced Tuesday.