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Duke in the News: Nov. 30, 2006

Survey: CFOs Worried Over Rising Takeover Prices | New Medical Center at Duke Joins 'Healing Environment' Trend | Cancer Survivors Urged to Maintain Healthy Weight, and more!

SURVEY: CFOs WORRIED OVER RISING TAKEOVER PRICES Reuters, Nov. 29 -- Chief financial officers of major companies are growing concerned that bids by private equity firms are making it too expensive to acquire companies at reasonable prices, according to a Duke University/CFO Magazine Business Outlook survey released on Wednesday. ... Full story --Also, CNBC's Closing Bell: 'Sizing Up' 2007 (Duke finance professor John Graham was interviewed; video not available online; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.) (Raleigh) News & Observer, AP: CFOs in Poll Are Downbeat (Duke professor Campbell R. Harvey, founding director of the survey) ... Full story

NEW MEDICAL CENTER AT DUKE JOINS 'HEALING ENVIRONMENT' TREND Charlotte Observer, Nov. 29 -- There's a waterfall, wooden beams styled after a forest and views of the woods outside. It's a far cry from the tiled walls and vinyl floors typical of old-school hospitals. At Duke's Integrative Medicine Center, that's the idea. (AP story also appeared on WRAL.com and more than 20 other news sites.) ... Full story

CANCER SURVIVORS URGED TO MAINTAIN HEALTHY WEIGHT Reuters, Nov. 30 -- Staying slim and fit is especially important for cancer survivors, because obesity raises the risk of cancer coming back, the American Cancer Society says in new guidelines based in part on Duke research. ... Full story

THE YEAR IN MEDICINE FROM A TO Z Time, Nov. 26 -- L is for loneliness. Sociologists from Duke and the University of Arizona made news last May when they reported that we increasingly rely solely on family members (80%) and spouses (9%) as confidants. ... Full story

EDITORIAL -- HUMAN GENOMICS: IN SEARCH OF NORMALITY Nature, Nov. 23 -- The number and magnitude of copy-number variation in the human genome was totally unexpected and is quite astonishing, say Hunt Willard and Kevin Shianna of Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. (Article not available online; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu.)

DUKE TACKLES THE BIG QUESTION (Durham) Herald-Sun, Nov. 30 -- For a lunchtime program, The Rev. Canon Sam Wells, dean of Duke Chapel, interviewed Duke medical school dean Sandy Williams about his views on the state of health care in the U.S. ... Full story

ESSAY: BROKEN CHAIN OF FAITH Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Nov. 25 -- Elizabeth Ingram Schindler, assistant director of the Duke Youth Academy for Christian Formation, discusses efforts to keep children engaged in faith. ... Full story

ON THE AIR Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, UNC-TV will air a documentary film called "The Guestworker." Filmmakers Cynthia Hill and Charlie Thompson of Duke's Center for Documentary Studies at Duke will be guests on North Carolina Public Radio's "The State of Things" today to talk about the two years they spent documenting the life of a Mexican migrant farmworker. ... Details