Archive : Winter 2008
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 March 20: On Match Day, 31,000 or so anxious senior medical students find out if they will be filling one of 24,000 residency positions. After the students submit their program preferences in ranked lists, and residency program directors do the same, an electronic process searches for overlaps.
April 10: Three poets perform public readings of their works about the eye as part of a series hosted by London's Wellcome Collection to celebrate the intersection of poetry and medical science.
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BREAKING DOWN a waste called bilirubin often overtaxes newborns’ livers—it builds up, causing jaundice. A baby might need to spend several days under a bili light—a blue light that alters bilirubin to make it water-soluble (and thus excretable). Yet many developing-world hospitals do not have this equipment because of its high cost (more than $5,000). In response, Duke University engineering students invented the BlueRay (here, in experimental use in Honduras), which uses light-emitting diodes instead of more costly bulbs and will sell for about $500.
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