http://www.dukemednews.org/ Latest news headlines from Duke University Medical Center. en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:20:00 EDT dukemednews@contact.duke.edu dukemednews@contact.duke.edu Copyright 2008 Duke University Medical Center. All rights reserved. http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10366 Male fruit flies missing a gene for one particular odor receptor become clueless in matters of love, scientists at Duke University Medical Center have discovered. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:20:00 EDT http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10366 http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10363 DURHAM, N.C. -- New research into the earliest events occurring immediately upon infection with HIV-I shows that the virus deals a stunning blow to the immune system earlier than was previously understood. According to scientists at Duke University Medical Center, this suggests the window of opportunity for successful intervention may be only a matter of days -- not weeks -- after transmission, as researchers had previously believed. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10363 http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10365 DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University Medical Center appear to have solved at least a piece of a puzzle that has mystified physicians for years: why so many patients with asthma also suffer from GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:00:00 EDT http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10365 http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10364 DURHAM, N.C. -- New research into the earliest events occurring immediately upon infection with HIV-I shows that the virus deals a stunning blow to the immune system earlier than was previously understood. According to scientists at Duke University Medical Center, this suggests the window of opportunity for successful intervention may be only a matter of days -- not weeks -- after transmission, as researchers had previously believed. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:15:00 EDT http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10364 http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10361 Scientists at a Duke University medical school in Singapore have found a new way to study cancer that could be very useful for developing targeted therapies against cancer and possibly many other diseases. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:00:00 EDT http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10361 http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10362 For the 19th year in a row, Duke University Hospital has been named as one of the top 10 U.S. hospitals in the annual U.S. News & World Report's best hospital edition. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:05:00 EDT http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10362 http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10358 DURHAM, N.C. -- Young women's breast cancers tend to be more aggressive and less responsive to treatment than the cancers that arise in older women, and researchers at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy may have discovered part of the reason why: young women's breast cancers share unique genomic traits that the cancers in older women do not exhibit. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:00:00 EDT http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10358 http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10359 DURHAM, N.C. -- The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, which reduced the amount of money doctors are reimbursed for the delivery of chemotherapy treatments, has not harmed patients' access to care in the way critics feared it might, according to a new study, led by investigators from the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). Researchers measured patient access to care by looking at the distance they traveled to be treated and the time that lapsed between diagnosis and initiation of chemotherapy. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:00:00 EDT http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10359 http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10356 Now that Duke University Medical Center scientists have figured out how the virus that causes cold sores hides out, they may have a way to wake it up and kill it. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:00:00 EDT http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10356 http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10355 Some schizophrenia patients become less prone to violence when taking medication, but those with a history of childhood conduct problems continue to pose a higher risk even with treatment, according to a new study by researchers at Duke University Medical Center. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=10355