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...Anthony Appiah, now professor of Afro-American studies and of philosophy, came to Harvard from Duke with Gates. And Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Cornel R. West '73 are both professors of Afro-American studies and hold joint appointments in the Divinity School...
...extraordinary medical cornucopia: the details of thousands of heart attacks painstakingly etched into silicon over nearly 30 years. Each spasm, each chemical released into the bloodstream by a dying heart muscle, each patient's treatment, is registered in this giant multivariate database by doctors, nurses and researchers at Duke University. The heart of the Medical Center's Databank for Cardiovascular Disease, these computers tell doctors, with greater certainty and accuracy every day, the best ways to treat not just heart attacks but a variety of other heart problems as well...
Like an economics student analyzing inflation, interest and unemployment rates and coming up with a forecast of which way the economy will go, the Duke databank, now a part of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, correlates important information about the body--enzyme levels, age, family history--into a prediction of how a given patient will respond to a certain type of treatment. Doctors on five continents dial into the system, type in the critical components of their patient's problem and get a recommendation for treatment based on the thousands of patients who have passed that way before...
...specialty after medical specialty, doctors say, the accelerating pace of invention is saving countless lives in hospitals as well as changing the way people live outside them. "These developments aren't just evolutionary," says Rebecca McKenzie, a head nurse who has been at Duke for the past 10 years and remembers the days when each patient traveled with a paper file six inches thick. "They're revolutionary...
...collection and analysis of patient information are becoming commonplace in modern medicine; technology has made the impossible probable and the unlikely a certainty. Twenty years ago cardiologists mostly guessed at what caused heart attacks. Now young heart doctors, using chemicals, nuclear imaging devices and databases like the one at Duke, can diagnose and treat heart attacks with astonishing efficiency...