GROCERY LISTS DON'T GUARANTEE HEALTHY CHOICES

Washington Post, March 14 -- The grocery lists most people jot down before going to the store can create a mental loophole for impulse food, a new Duke-led study finds. (HealthDay News story also appeared on Yahoo! News and in more than 130 other news outlets.) ... Full story

DUKE UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS TRY TO ROOT OUT ACID RAIN PROBLEM

(Durham) Herald-Sun, March 15 -- A Duke-led study is providing a new understanding of how plants manage their internal calcium levels and could potentially lead to genetically engineering plants to avoid damage from acid rain. ... Full story

DEATH RATE HIGHER IN HEART ATTACK PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED ON WEEKENDS

The New York Times, March 15 -- Dr. Eric D. Peterson, a cardiologist at Duke who has studied weekend care, found that although there was less angioplasty on weekends, there was no difference in mortality rates for heart attack patients. ... Full story

EXPERTS ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS ON BREAST CANCER

ABC News, March 14 -- Dr. Kimberly Blackwell, medical oncologist and associate professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center, answers a question about a new treatment for breast cancer from a viewer of "World News With Charles Gibson." ... Full story
--Also, (Topeka) ABC 49 News: New, Safer Targeted Therapy Saved Breast Cancer Patient's Life (with video) ... Full story

EDITORIAL: DIVINITY STUDENTS REACH OUT TO ACTIVIST

Herald-Sun, March 14 -- A group of 10 to 12 students from Duke Divinity School have adopted civil rights pioneer Ann Atwater and are helping her do the things she can no longer do for herself, while gaining "plenty of invaluable lessons." ... Full story

DEBATE GROWS OVER PATENTING OF GENES

Florida Today, March 10 -- Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan, director of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy at Duke, comments on the race to patent human genes. ... Full story

PAULUS ISN'T ALONE

(Raleigh) News & Observer, March 15 -- Duke starter and team co-captain Greg Paulus is used to tough competition -- from his family. ... Full story
--Also, Winston-Salem Journal, AP: Krzyzewski Conjures Up Laettner Memories in Buffalo ... Full story

ON THE AIR

"The State of Things" today on North Carolina Public Radio shares highlights from a conference at Duke this week on end-of-life issues. Guests include Dr. Richard Payne, professor of medicine and divinity and the director of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life, and Imam Abdul-hafeez Waheed, adviser to the Muslim student association at Duke.
http://wunc.org/tsot