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LUNG: Most cases of lung cancer are too advanced for treatment by the time they are detected, but researchers at Duke University are working on a blood test that could detect the disease in its earliest stages, when the cancer may still be treatable. Their aim is to detect traces of a protein, called serum amyloid A, that is elevated in cancer patients but not in healthy people...
...these risks seem to be highest among those who need it most, the extremely obese (more than 100 lbs. overweight). That's the conclusion of a study of 335 patients, two of whom died. "This should not be considered a cosmetic procedure," warns lead author Dr. Elmar Merkle of Duke University. "It should be the last option we can offer...
...crux of the issue is that Harvard is one of only two universities—Duke University is the other—that retains an in-house endowment management firm. As a result, while the managers of other schools’ endowments might also draw large salaries, they are not directly paid by those schools...
...Duke students’ video remix of the remix to Ignition: Sure to Become Your Second Favorite R.Kelly Video...
Moore then put together a list of schools—Yale, University of North Carolina, Wake Forest, Duke and Harvard. She made her final decision based in part on Harvard’s location. “What made me really like it here was I had never had the opportunity to live in a city before,” Moore says. She matriculated in 2001, and spent her first year getting acclimated to school off the court (all Division 1 transfers have to sit out a year from basketball at their new school) and in the classroom...