Duke in the News: Nov. 21, 2007
Screening Tests May Miss Prostate Cancer in Obese Patients | Kingsolver Tapped for Commencement | Commentary: Chemistry at Duke, and more…
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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SCREENING TESTS MAY MISS PROSTATE CANCER IN OBESE PATIENTS
USA Today, Nov. 21 -- New findings from Duke researcher Dr. Stephen J. Freedland and colleagues suggest that the most common blood test for prostate cancer often fails to catch early signs of the disease in obese men because they have more blood than other patients. ... Full story
--Also, Reuters: Obesity Can Skew Key Prostate Cancer Test Results ... Full story
Duke Med News: Study Suggests Adjusting PSA Scores for Obese Men or Cancers May be Missed ... Full story
KINGSOLVER TAPPED FOR COMMENCEMENT
Duke Chronicle, Nov. 20 -- Barbara Kingsolver, author and recipient of the National Humanities Medal, will deliver the Duke commencement address May 11, President Richard Brodhead announced. ... Full story
--Also, Charlotte Observer, AP: Novelist Kingsolver to Give Duke Commencement Address ... Full story
COMMENTARY: CHEMISTRY AT DUKE
Chemical & Engineering News, Nov. 19 -- Duke's emphasis on breaking down the barriers between disciplines impresses the editor of an American Chemical Society journal during a recent campus visit. ... Full story
COMMENTARY: INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE CHANGE
The Guardian (London), Nov. 20 -- Duke law professor Jedediah Purdy examines the possibilities for action on climate change, calling the problem "a challenge to the premises of modern economic life." ... Full story
'DANCING WITH THE STARS' ONE STAR SHORT OF A FINALE
ABC News, Nov. 20 -- Dr. Michael Cuffe, vice president for medical affairs at Duke University Health System, makes recommendations for patients, including Vegas legend Wayne Newton, who are battling cardiomyopathy, a viral infection of the heart. (See second page.) ... Full story
SMOKING NOT ALWAYS THE CAUSE
(Durham) Herald-Sun, Nov. 20 -- Dr. Jennifer Garst, an oncologist at Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and one of the founders of National Lung Cancer Partnership, is helping to sound the alarm about "a paucity of lung cancer research dollars." ... Full story
EAT, DRINK, AND RELAX
Christianity Today, Nov. 20 -- Think the Pilgrims would frown on today's football-tossing, turkey-gobbling Thanksgiving festivities? Maybe not, says Elesha Coffman, who is working on a Ph.D in church history from Duke. ... Full story
ON THE AIR
Ravi Bansal, a professor of finance at the Fuqua School of Business, was interviewed Wednesday for an upcoming BBC World Service report on the dollar's fall in value. ... Details
"Our State" visits the Duke Lemur Center, the world's largest sanctuary for endangered prosimian primates, at 8 p.m. ET Thursday on UNC-TV. ... Details
Osha Gray Davidson, author of the Duke first-year-student reading selection "The Best of Enemies," joins Durham civil rights leader Ann Atwater on North Carolina Public Radio’s "The State of Things" Thursday. ... Details
