INSIDE : inside.mc.duke.edu

August 21, 2006 Volume 15 No. 16

The Myozyme Miracle
The Team Behind the Treatment

Yamila Jimenez is a 3-year-old walking miracle.
She has Pompe (pronounced pom-PAY) disease, a rare genetic disease that means her body is unable to produce a vital enzyme needed to turn the sugar (glycogen) in her muscles into energy.

Had she been born just a few years earlier, her life expectancy would have been 12 months or less. Her muscles would have rapidly weakened, preventing her from moving, swallowing, breathing. Her heart would...

Three-year-old Yamila Jimenez is alive today because of a medical treatment for Pompe disease that had its origins in research performed at Duke nearly 15 years ago.

	Back To School New Duke Benefit Makes It Easier For Employees to Take College Classes Beginning in January 2007, the new Employee Tuition Assistance Program will reimburse staff up to...
	Who Needs Chemotherapy? Duke Scientists Create First Genomic Test To Predict Which Lung Cancer Patients Need Chemotherapy to Live Duke University Medical Center scientists have developed the first-ever genomic test to predict...
	Serving the Durham Community First-year Duke Medical Students Perform Community Service Projects During Orientation Before Jeremy Miles, Dionne Peacher and Jerlinda Ross started their first year of medical school,...
	"The Great 100" Nurses
	Duke Medical Center Goes “Green” New Research Building Is “Green” from the Ground Up At a university where environmental awareness is integrated in practically all aspects of campus...“MSRB-II, as a lab space, was particularly challenging. It\'s a testament to Hillier, the...