New reports detail DUHS fluid mix-up
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Weeks before the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers Competition, the members of the Duke Motorsports team were tweaking their newly-built car and racing it around the parking lot of the Gross Chemistry building. The team hoped to at least finish all of the competition’s events, a feat it had not accomplished in the previous two years.
Duke spent 18 months searching nationwide for its first executive director of student health, but it turned out its future head was working by their side all along.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new meningococcal vaccination recommendations May 26 for college-bound students.
Dr. David Schwartz, former chief investigator for the Duke Toxicogenomics Center, has agreed to join the National Institute of Health after new NIH rules adopted Feb. 1 created a reported personal financial conflict of interest for Schwartz. The controversy delayed his acceptance of the new job by almost two months.
Three crosses were burned in separate locations in Durham late Wednesday evening, Durham Police Department officers reported. Ku Klux Klan fliers were also found at one location, police told The Associated Press.
Duke officials confirmed earlier this week that they have pushed back the initial phase of the Central Campus renovation by one year.
Kathy Hollingsworth has been named the director of Duke’s Counseling and Psychological Services. She will take office July 18, succeeding James Clack, who led CAPS for the last 10 years.
After almost a year and a half of organizing and planning, the Duke University Rescue Squad had its first 911 medical emergency call April 4, 1995. Matt Womble, a founding member of the squad and current administrative manager at Duke University Hospital, remembered how the team ran to the individual only to find the patient was having an asthma attack and was not seriously injured. “It was a little anticlimactic,” he said.
A mix-up involving elevator hydraulic fluid that occurred at two hospitals within Duke University Health System late last year has produced its first lawsuit. So far, Duke is not a target.
The weeks of waiting are finally over for the 18,062 high school seniors who sought placement in Duke University’s Class of 2009. Admission officials mailed decision letters Thursday, but students were able to check their decisions online as early as 7 p.m. Wednesday.
With today’s elections looming, Duke Student Government held a shortened meeting Wednesday night to present the Student Organization Finance Committee budget recommendation for next year.
Anne Yoder, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University, was named the new director of Duke University Primate Center Wednesday. She will also hold a primary appointment in the biology department and a secondary appointment in the biological anthropology and anatomy department.
In order to stem Duke’s rising student health insurance costs, the Graduate and Professional Student Council searched to find the cause of the rise. GPSC officials distributed a survey last month to members of the health plan to help gauge interest on possible amendments to the plan. The results are in.
They say imitation is the highest form of flattery.
Stan is perpetually sick. Doctors constantly surround him, treating his plethora of ailments. Sometimes his tongue swells up, blocking his airways. Depending on the day, he is allergic to different drugs. But, if Stan dies, doctors reboot him and try again. Stan is a $200,000 robot.
Six months after the Duke University iPod First-Year Experience began, a stack of unopened iPods line Lynne O’Brien’s office. As the director of the Center for Instructional Technology, her office has become the temporary storage room for the leftover devices. She laughs as she recalls the plethora of square boxes that were there earlier in the year. Her horde would be depleted shortly, as CIT had just approved iPod proposals for two more classes.
If Campus Council gets its way, Duke students’ newest instant messenger buddy will be the police.
Duke researchers have concluded from a cost-effective analysis that more people should be tested for HIV testing than national guidelines currently suggest.
Tuesday marks the two-year anniversary of Jesica Santillan’s death—and the start of a grassroots campaign for patient safety measures within Duke University Health System.