Inside Duke Medicine
Candidate statements on health care reform
October 14th, 2008Election Day is in about three weeks. The editors of the New England Journal of Medicine asked U.S. Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama,…
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Celebrate Open Access Day
October 13th, 2008Duke University and Medical Center libraries will celebrate Open Access Day on Oct. 14. Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked…
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Health fair at DRH
October 13th, 2008LIVE FOR LIFE’s Feel Like a Million Health Fair will take place from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Oct. 15 at Durham Regional Hospital in the 1st level classroom. Employees can…
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Ask Dr. Dzau
October 13th, 2008This year Victor J. Dzau, M.D., Chancellor of Health Affairs for Duke University and President & CEO of Duke University Health System, will give a 25-minute address at the State…
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Organ transplant recipients face financial pressures
October 13th, 2008Laurie Snyder, M.D., medical instructor of pulmonary medicine, is featured in this video.
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New test could change heart care
October 10th, 2008Duke cardiologist William Kraus, M.D., is featured in a story from The News & Observer about a simple new blood test that could soon replace the current methods for detecting…
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OGACHI leads Caribbean conference
October 10th, 2008The School of Nursing’s Office of Global and Community Health Initiatives (OGACHI) is preparing for an Oct. 13-15 conference on improving the health of elderly residents in Caribbean nations. This year’s event in…
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DUSON gets NIH grants
October 10th, 2008The Duke University School of Nursing has been awarded two new competitive research grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute for Nursing Research. One is for Self-Management…
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Durham: No. 1 place to retire
October 10th, 2008Black Enterprise Magazine put Durham at the top of its list of “20 Best Places to Retire” and cited Duke’s medical facilities in the city as one of the reasons…
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Duke program helps kids make healthy choices
October 10th, 2008width=400; height=324; wral_insert_video_player_3684469(width,height); Sarah Armstrong, M.D., childhood obesity expert, is featured in this video. (Short ad precedes video)