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2007 News RACE is named one of AHA's top research advances for 2007 FDA Needs More Money and Staff, Report Finds Pill makes it easier to boost platelets in Hepatitis C patients Ethnic background influences impact of medical information New director for one of the key programs at Duke-NUS DCRI researchers find no significant long-term positive impact for delayed angioplasty RACE: A Statewide Model of Better, Faster Heart Attack Care Medicare Modernization Act did not change chemotherapy access ICDs Underused in Women, Minorities with Heart Failure Drugs and behavior therapy help teens battling depression Large-Scale Study Launched on Antidepressant Use Among Children and Adolescents with Mental Illness Largest gift in Duke University School of Medicine history to fund landmark study Drug Reduces Fractures and Death after Hip Fracture Good Clinical Data Management Practices earns international recognition Duke-NUS Medical School ready to double in size after first year Duke Clinical Research Training Program celebrates 20 years of shaping the future of clinical research Cardiac devices boost survival in heart failure patients Ventricular Assist Devices help improve survival rate post-heart surgery Are new laws needed to designate hospitals that perform angioplasty? New study: Aspirin might help infants survive artery shunts New study stresses importance of proper dosing for anticoagulants Duke University Hospital is still one of the top 10 hospitals in the country DTMI/ DCRI researchers find that obese patients are slightly more likely to survive heart attack Researchers need to seek out more elderly patients for cardiac clinical trials Trial results highlight challenges, opportunities for treating women with ischemic heart disease Trial to test new smallpox vaccine Extra pay does not improve hospital performance Patients' high expectations of benefit in early stage clinical trials may not reflect poor understanding Updated AHA recommendations state that use of antibiotics prior to dental procedures rarely needed Schanberg receives Mandel Established Investigator Award Obesity increases workers' compensation costs Clinical trial coordinators need more financial conflict-of-interest training ACOSOG study finds use of Gleevec reduces cancer recurrence for patients with primary gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) Making medicine safe for children AHA releases updated heart disease guidelines for women New study results shed light on infertility Harrington adds faculty directors to his executive leadership team DCRI faculty members among the first to receive CTSA funds for biostatistical research Csaky joins the DCRI as new ophthalmology research director

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