Duke in the News: Feb. 27, 2003
Lament for Jesica | Personalized Medicine's Bitter Pill | Column: Admission Rules Have Some Give | On Brink of War, Few Exits Remain | Big Ideas 2003, and more...
Thursday, February 27, 2003
LAMENT FOR JESICA
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 27 -- Jesica Santillan's
younger brother and sister walked stone-faced by her casket, but
her mother sobbed as she approached. A string of clergy from area
churches offered tribute during the public memorial service to
Jesica's faith and bravery. ...
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CNN: Transplant Teen Remembered As 'Lovely and Loving'
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Newsday: Docs Defend Giving 2nd Transplant
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News & Observer: Panel Won't Hear Family Attorney
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Boston Globe: Ellen Goodman Column: Safeguarding Against Medical
Errors
Full story
(Denver) Rocky Mountain News: Editorial: Is Jesica's Death a Good
Reason to Sue?
Full story
Herald-Sun: Editorial: For Parents' Sake, A Second Opinion
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story
Herald-Sun: Letter Sent by Duke Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Caregivers
Full letter
PERSONALIZED MEDICINE'S BITTER PILL
MIT Technology Review, Feb. 28 -- Allen D. Roses of GlaxoSmithKline
and Duke University School of Medicine has predicted that a new
medical approach based on genetic profiles, called
pharmacogenetics, "will change the practice and economics of
medicine." (Link to selected text; full article available by
subscription.) ...Excerpt
COLUMN: ADMISSION RULES HAVE SOME GIVE
Palm Beach Post, Feb. 24 -- Duke, and other schools, have a classic
problem of demand that exceeds the supply of space. Any way they
manage demand must have some arbitrariness, says a Palm Beach Post
editorial writer. ...
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ON BRINK OF WAR, FEW EXITS REMAIN
Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 27 -- Some experts, including
Duke's Bruce Jentleson, say the brittle relations between the U.S.
and key international partners is making the leap from brinkmanship
to peaceful resolution of the Iraq crisis less likely. ...Full
story
BIG IDEAS 2003
Fortune Small Business, Feb. 1 -- For the past decade Mary
Eubanks, a 55-year-old Duke University biology professor, has
toiled in her Durham, N.C., lab. She hoped to create corn with
increased resistance to drought and disease by importing some genes
from a tall, strong variety of grass called gama grass. Did she
succeed? That's an understatement. ...
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DUKE SERIES TO SCREEN FILMS FROM 'ROGUE'
STATES
(Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Feb. 27 -- As President Bush campaigns
to convince the world of the evilness of leaders in Iraq, Iran and
North Korea, a couple of Duke professors have launched a film
series to show the public how those countries are seen through the
eye of the filmmakers who live there. (Also, broadcast coverage
yesterday on CNN and MSNBC.) ...Full
story
K-VILLE MAKES PEACE TENTS LOOK LIKE GHOST
TOWN
(Durham, N.C.) Independent Weekly, Feb. 27 -- Despite the strange
juxtaposition of encampments on the Duke campus, neither the
K-ville tenters nor the "peace tenters" felt it was a competition.
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