Use the fields below to perform an advanced search of The Chronicle's archives. This will return articles, images, and multimedia relevant to your query. You can also try a Basic search
86 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.
HILLSBOROUGH - Last Thursday, the lawyers for the International Union of Operating Engineers and Duke University Health System scheduled a unionization vote for early June and decided which nurses will be allowed to participate.
When it comes to dealing with the mentally ill, treatments are difficult to administer and are very often controversial. All too often, psychiatric patients end up in the hospital over and over again because they do not self-administer prescribed treatments.
For many, spring in Durham means a cloudless blue sky, warm weather and longer days. Yet, for some Duke students, spring brings more than visually pleasing sundresses; it also comes with olfactory displeasing coats of pollen. And where there's pollen, there are allergies.
W hether it's part of a healthy lifestyle or just the annual "getting-in-shape-for-Myrtle" ritual, many students rely on weight training to keep them fit and toned.
Sometimes, creating a drug that can save heart patients' lives is not enough; researchers also have to make it affordable. A newly tested drug trade-named Integrilin promises to do both.
Citing lost career opportunities, mandatory overtime and lowered staff levels, a number of Duke Hospital's nurses are considering forming a union.
Pak-Pak-Pak-Pak.
Now that the dust raised by John Rocker's comments has begun to settle, it's time we take a close look at racism in our society and realize that we're focusing on the wrong -ism. Although it is an important issue, what we should be focusing on isn't racism, but classism.
Eight months after the Medical Center was forced to halt its human research projects because of its failure to meet government regulations, Duke's top officials have begun calling for a national restructuring of current oversight mechanisms.
Durham Regional Hospital's severe and widely publicized financial troubles have made some of its employees uncertain about the hospital's future. The hospital merged with Duke University Health System in July 1998 in an attempt to make it more solvent, but it now faces a serious $4.3 million deficit.
Researchers at the Medical Center recently became the first scientists to produce three-dimensional images of plaque-blobs of cellular garbage-found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
As they stare down a multi-million dollar deficit at Durham Regional Hospital, Duke University Health System officials have stopped reiterating their commitment to no layoffs within the first three years of the July 1998 merger. They do, however, insist that layoffs are not currently in the works.
When the war in Kosovo began last March, I found myself in an unusual situation. Since I am a Yugoslav and lived in Belgrade for 12 years, I have been asked on numerous occasions to explain the Kosovo "situation." At first, I gladly obliged and I did my best to provide one.
In addition to general health risks, obesity may have an additional associated risk-extremely obese women may be more likely to give birth by Cesarean section. A recent study conducted by Medical Center researchers points to a correlation between morbid obesity in pregnant women and the chance that they will have C-sections.
Educating while entertaining a packed Love Auditorium Thursday afternoon, Daniel Schacter, a world-renowned expert on human memory lectured on "The Fragile Power of Human Memory."
Research that will be published in today's edition of The New England Journal of Medicine gives hope to children born with complete DiGeorge Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder resulting in a missing thymus gland and a nonfunctional immune system.
Researchers at University of California at Irvine have the news that may tantalize college students everywhere: pulling an all-nighter may actually be beneficial to one's health.
Speaking to a sizable, inquisitive audience in the Love Auditorium Monday night, Dr. Joe Palca, a science correspondent for National Public Radio, gave an intellectually stimulating talk entitled "How, When and What to Tell the Public About Misconduct in Science."
Rep. David Price, D-N.C., toured a Medical Center laboratory yesterday and met with researchers and physicians to discuss scientists' ongoing battle against prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men.
Heart patients in Latin America are twice as likely to die within 30 days of being hospitalized than heart patients in North America, according to a recent global study led by Duke Clinical Research Institute cardiology fellow Dr. Mauricio Cohen.
