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...vaccine. And although the problems have come to a head in the past few years, their roots go back at least two decades. "A lot of people have been asleep at the wheel," says Dr. Frank Sloan, director of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management at Duke University in Durham, N.C. "There are systemic problems that needed to be ad- dressed and haven't been...
...DIED. PRINCESS ALICE, DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER, 102, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II; in London. Born Lady Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott, daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch, she married Prince Henry, brother of the Queen?s father King George VI, in 1935. Though her husband died in 1974, she kept up a busy schedule of official royal duties and charitable work into...
Princeton’s sizeable edge extends well beyond its turn-of-this-century football stadium, though. Home of the school’s basketball teams, Jadwin Gymnasium—though certainly not comparable to its counterparts at, say, Duke or North Carolina—easily outstrips Lavietes Pavilion in every respect, including, historically at least, the product on the court. But that’s no reason for Harvard to slap together an arena that wouldn’t pass muster at an upper-end high school program...
...Pavilion, just like its counterparts at Duke, UConn and Stanford, became more than a court on Friday—it transformed into a roiling cauldron of smoke and fire...
...patients with acute heart problems, a blood transfusion--an increasingly common procedure--can double the risk of death and triple the risk of another heart attack within a month, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Doctors at Duke Clinical Research Institute analyzed data from three big trials involving more than 24,000 patients, 10% of whom had had transfusions during their first 30 days in the hospital. Researchers speculate that transfused blood may lack nitric oxide--essential for delivering oxygen to tissues--and cause harmful inflammation. Transfusions can't be halted, says the study...