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Officials of Duke University Health System announced Wednesday David McQuaid as the next chief executive officer of Durham Regional Hospital, one of two community hospitals under DUHS.
President Nan Keohane announced Friday the members of the search committee that will select the successor for Chancellor of Health Affairs Dr. Ralph Snyderman, also president and CEO of the Duke University Health System.
Two studies released independently this summer from researchers at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill highlighted a high risk of sexually transmitted diseases for young females and revealed a spike in HIV among male college students in the Triangle area, respectively.
For the fourth year in a row, U.S. News and World Report rated Duke University Medical Center sixth-best in the nation, highlighting its excellence in 13 specialties such as heart and heart surgery, geriatrics, cancer and gynecology.
Although Duke University Hospital had committed to commemorating Jesica Santillan's memory with a fund in her name, her mother, Magdalena Santillan, has recently retracted her endorsement of the fund. She has since hired a medical malpractice attorney to investigate exactly what happened to her daughter during the two weeks between a mismatched organ transplant and her death.
Although construction for the Albert Eye Research Institute - the new Trustee-approved addition to the Duke Eye Center - is to begin July 1, the center is still about $10 million short of securing the requisite funds to complete the new building.
Famed researcher Dr. Kim Lyerly, who helped develop the AIDS breakthrough drug AZT and served as the leader of a top-notch breast cancer research program, was recently named Director of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center by Dean of the School of Medicine Dr. Sandy Williams.
The latest report from a series of probes into the Duke University Hospital found deficiencies in the Hospital's dialysis division, medication administering procedure and infection control, according to a memo issued Friday by Dr. William Fulkerson, CEO of Duke Hospital.
The grand opening of the Center for Human Genetics yesterday coincided fittingly with the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the DNA double helix by James Watson and Francis Crick and with last week's announcement that the sequencing of the human genome was complete.
Patients now have yet another piece of paperwork to fill out at the doctor's office, but this one should actually make them happy.
The recent Food and Drug Administration approval of Fuzeon, the first in a new class of AIDS drugs, shows promise in helping a substantial number of HIV and AIDS sufferers who have developed resistance to many of today's common anti-retroviral drugs.
Dr. Pascal Goldschmidt, the newly appointed chair of the Department of Medicine, is eagerly awaiting his opportunity to forge new interdisciplinary alliances and lead the staff of the University's largest department.
Despite intense opposition from medical students, two national organizations in charge of the medical licensing exam are forging ahead with plans to institute a nationally standardized clinical skills exam for the graduating class of 2005.
As the School of Nursing looks to increase its presence in the University's research community, the school is forging ahead with plans to institute a doctoral program as early as 2005.
With enough funds to realize two of its immediate goals, the Department of Cell Biology is forging ahead under its new chair Brigid Hogan. Since her arrival, Hogan has initiated the recruitment of new faculty and the renovation of existing research space.
A new theory of how people see proposes that past perceptions, as well as evolution, influence the recognition of visual stimuli, perhaps replacing the accepted theory that perceptions correspond exactly to the real world.
Nearly a month after the supposed cloning of two humans by the Raelians, a religious sect, the Duke community maintains mixed feelings over the implications of human cloning.
Pursuing a dream has often been equated with reaching for the stars. As a leading expert in stars and gravitation, Arlie Petters, who has gained a reputation as one of the most successful black mathematicians in academia, serves as a model for younger minorities trying to grasp stars of their own.
Remember that quote from lit class in high school, "The best-laid plans of mice and men oft go awry?" Throughout their whirlwind globe-trot, the two main characters in You Shall Know Our Velocity-Dave Eggers' highly anticipated follow-up to 2001's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius-epitomize Robert Burns' dishearteningly accurate commentary on life.
This is the third story in a five-part series on Duke's 20 years of research and social work against AIDS.
