August 24, 2004

GUANTANAMO HEARINGS START TODAY USA Today, Aug. 24 -- Scott Silliman, a Duke University law professor, says the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base tribunal's debut has "huge significance" in U.S. legal history. ... Full story --Also, CNN Live Today: Prisoner Abuse Scandal (Silliman) ... Full story

STEM CELLS INFUSE KIN WITH HOPE Denver Post, Aug. 24 -- Two days after about 700 million cells were injected into his body, 13-month-old Timothy Ritacco took a walk with his mom and dad through the halls of Duke University Medical Center, giggling at nurses. ... Full story

COMMENTARY: COOL HEADS ON GLOBAL WARMING New York Times, Aug. 24 -- An op-ed page ad, one of a 12-part series to be sponsored by the Nicholas School, says that many scientists believe we have a 20-year window in which we can reduce the potential damage from global warming. (Link to ad text.) ... Full story

RUSSIAN TV TODAY: AN INTERVIEW WITH ELLEN MICKIEWICZ Balkanalysis.com, Aug. 24 -- Ellen Mickiewicz, director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism at Duke, shares her views about the state of Russian television. ... Full story

HOSPITAL ON REVIEW AFTER PATIENT'S JUMP (Raleigh) News & Observer, Aug. 24 -- Duke-run Durham Regional Hospital has faxed federal regulators a copy of its plan to ensure one-on-one supervision of patients who are judged by the medical staff to be a danger to themselves or others. (Free registration required.) ... Full story --Also, (Durham) Herald-Sun: Durham Regional Faces Federal Medicare Sanctions ... Full story

DUKE AIMS TO FOSTER INTEGRITY (Duke) Chronicle, Aug. 24 -- Newly-minted Blue Devils sign the Community Standard, engaging in what Duke President Richard Brodhead has called an act integral to becoming members of the university community. ... Full story

PUTTING PATIENT DATA AT PHYSICIANS' FINGERTIPS (Durham) Herald-Sun, Aug 24 -- Former Duke Hospital surgical residents Alan Ying and William "B.J." Lawson find a way to take the runaround out of patient rounds. ... Full story

ON THE AIR Duke law professor Scott Silliman was interviewed Tuesday, Aug. 24, about the Schlesinger and Fay investigative reports being issued this week, implicating soldiers, contractors, medics and U.S. military leaders in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. Silliman commented on the investigations on NPR's "The Connection," heard locally on WUNC-91.5 FM and at theconnection.org, and on PRI's "The World".

Childhood obesity will be the topic on Tuesday's "The State of Things" on WUNC-FM, featuring Dr. Terrill Bravender, an assistant professor of pediatrics and director of Adolescent Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. Listen at noon or 8 p.m. over radio or computer. ... Full story