Duke in the News: Sept. 15, 2006
Experts Urge Help in Easing Mental Health Crisis in Seniors | Heart Attack Patients Not Using Life-Saving Drugs | Duke Officials Urge Caution After Off-Campus Attack, and more…
Friday, September 15, 2006
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EXPERTS URGE LAWMAKERS TO HELP EASE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN SENIORS
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 15 -- Dr. David C. Steffens, a geriatric psychiatrist at Duke University Medical Center, joined a panel telling a congressional committee that senior citizens have high rates of mental illness and the country's highest suicide rate when compared with other age groups. ... Full story
--Also, UPI: Team Approach to Depression Effective ... Full story
HEART ATTACK PATIENTS NOT USING LIFE-SAVING DRUGS
Reuters, Sept. 14 -- Although it is well established that the long-term use of beta-blocker drugs, such as Tenormin and Lopressor, can improve survival and other outcomes after a heart attack, most patients stop taking them after just a few months, new Duke research indicates. ... Full story
DUKE OFFICIALS URGE CAUTION AFTER OFF-CAMPUS ATTACK
(Durham) Herald-Sun, Sept. 15 -- Duke University is cautioning students to lock their doors, travel in pairs and be well aware of their surroundings in the wake of a Monday night attack on a Duke student living in the off-campus apartment complex The Belmont. ... Full story
--Also, (Durham) ABC 11 News: Tighter Security After Student Attack ... Full story
Duke Chronicle: Belmont Shores Up Security After Alleged Assault ... Full story
Herald-Sun: No Easy Fix for Dangerous Durham Crosswalk ... Full story
2 DURHAM COPS FIRED OVER BAR AFFRAY
(Raleigh) News & Observer, Sept. 15 -- Durham Police Sgt. Mark Gottlieb and fellow Duke lacrosse case officer Richard D. Clayton were cleared of wrongdoing in an alleged assault by Durham officers on a cook at a Raleigh sports bar. Two officers involved were fired.
Full story
--Also, Herald-Sun: 2 Officers Charged With Assault Fired ... Full story
Herald-Sun: Op-Ed -- A Grand Show of Arrogance by Duke Athletics (by Orin Starn, a professor of cultural anthropology at Duke; article not available online; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.)
Duke News: Duke and Men's Lacrosse (special website with background information) ... Full story
CHOREOGRAPHER WORKS AT GENETIC LEVEL
News & Observer, Sept. 14 -- Liz Lerman Dance Exchange performs "Ferocious Beauty: Genome" Friday night to cap a weeklong series of events at Duke. ... Full story
GOOD LUCK BUYING YOUR OWN HEALTH INSURANCE
Marketplace, Sept. 14 -- Duke University health policy professor Chris Conover says we need to rethink health insurance coverage and give people the same kind of tax breaks to buy their own insurance that we now provide to people with employer plans. ... Full story
COLUMN: ARE INDIANS THE MODEL IMMIGRANTS?
BusinessWeek, Sept. 13 -- Vivek Wadhwa, executive in residence at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, shares his views on why Indians are such a successful immigrant group. ... Full story
RESEARCH: NON-SMOKERS MAY EASE DEPRESSION WITH NICOTINE
(Detroit) WDIV-TV News, Sept. 13 -- Nicotine may improve the symptoms of depression in people who do not smoke, Duke University Medical Center scientists reported. ... Full story
NO 'GULF' SYNDROME
Newsday, Sept. 14 -- Dr. David Matchar, professor of medicine and director of the Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy Research, discusses the evidence that led the Institute of Medicine to conclude that the real complaints of Gulf War veterans don't add up to a unique syndrome. ... Full story
ON THE AIR
Donna Lisker, director of Duke's Women's Center, is scheduled to be featured in a story about sexual assaults on the nation’s college campuses airing Saturday on Weekend America. Listen to the American Public Media program on your local public radio station or later to archived web audio. ... Details
