Duke in the News: Feb. 12, 2003
Promising New AIDS Drugs on Horizon | Editorial: Reform Baker Act | State to Consider Reparations for Sterilization Victims | Study Reveals Perils of Binge Drinking, and more...
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
PROMISING NEW AIDS DRUGS ON HORIZON
New York Times, Feb. 12 -- At the 10th Conference on Retroviruses
in Boston on Tuesday, doctors described encouraging results with
the next generation of a drug, called T-1249, that is intended to
be used when the HIV virus grows resistant to T-20. Dr. Diego
Miralles of Duke University said that even more versions are in the
design stage to take over when T-1249 fails. (Free registration
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EDITORIAL: REFORM BAKER ACT
Miami Herald, Feb. 12 -- An editorial says a Duke study makes the
case for a new approach to helping mentally ill persons get
treatment before they become dangerous. ...
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STATE OFFICIALS TO CONSIDER REPARATIONS FOR
STERILIZATION VICTIMS
(Concord, N.C.) Independent Tribune, Feb. 12 -- Doriane
Coleman, a Duke University law professor who teaches a course about
genetics, genomics and the law, said reparations are appropriate
for North Carolina's eugenic sterilization victims, who were often
forced to submit to the procedures. ...
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STUDY REVEALS PERILS OF BINGE DRINKING
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Feb. 12 -- Blackouts from binge
drinking, causing loss of intermittent bits of memory or of entire
blocks of time, are putting college students in danger of
everything from unwanted sex to traffic accidents, according to a
Duke University study published today. ...Full
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FORUM DISCUSSES DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL FOR 21ST
CENTURY
Kansas City Star, Feb. 12 -- Duke University is accelerating the
pace of spinning off scientific research into new companies, said
Kristina Johnson, dean of Duke's engineering school, at the
Emerging Issues Forum. ...
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ALASKA HAS A CHANCE
Anchorage Daily News, Feb. 12 -- Sylvia Earle, a marine biologist
and an explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society,
began diving at age 16 in 1952 and continued diving as she pursued
a doctorate in marine botany at Duke University. She has logged
more than 6,000 hours underwater. ...Full
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