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Hampton Professor Conducts Study Linking Cigarette Smoke to Breast Cancer

Hampton Professor Conducts Study Linking Cigarette Smoke to Breast CancerHAMPTON, Va.A new study links cadmium, a metal found in cigarette smoke and shellfish, to breast cancer. Findings from the study, conducted by Hampton University biology professor Dr. Nicholas Kenney and several researchers at the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University, were published in the July […]

October 22, 2003

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Yale Study Compares Breast Cancer

Yale Study Compares Breast Cancer Survival RatesNEW HAVEN, Conn.African American patients with breast cancer who are treated with conservative surgery and radiation therapy have similar survival rates to that of White patients, despite the earlier age of onset and larger tumor size, according to a Yale study. The study was prompted by the fact that […]

September 24, 2003

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A Meeting of the Minds

A Meeting of the MindsBrothers of the Academy’s first think tank to promote collaborative research, community improvementBy Pearl StewartIt began with a casual conversation about five years ago among seven African American men attending a conference of the American Educational Research Association in Montreal. Their meeting was an ad hoc “Black caucus” of sorts, during […]

September 24, 2003

HBCUs

Researchers Find Growing Number of HIV Cases at North Carolina Colleges

Researchers Find Growing Number of HIV Cases at North Carolina CollegesGREENSBORO, N.C.Researchers are alarmed by a recent outbreak of the HIV virus among college students in North Carolina in which 53 male students — most of them Black — have contracted the virus. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and state researchers say the […]

August 27, 2003

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Blacks Are in a State of Emergency

Blacks Are in a State of EmergencyIt is becoming ever more unpopular for me to assert that I am an African American. It appears that I would have more fans if I would just accept myself as a “diversity.” But, I am not a “diversity,” I am not a “multiculturalism,” and I am not a […]

July 31, 2002

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Letters

Dear Editor:I just read your Editor’s Note, “Let’s Talk About Sex” (see Black Issues, Jan. 31) and wanted to let you know my thoughts on some of your assertions.Our nation’s puritan roots are not tied to any national dysfunction regarding sex. Puritans loved sex; they had huge families. They were modest, God-fearing, God-honoring people who […]

February 27, 2002

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University of Pittsburgh Researchers Hope to Get More Blacks in AIDS Study

University of Pittsburgh Researchers Hope to Get More Blacks in AIDS StudyPITTSBURGH As part of a national effort to get more Black men into AIDS studies, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are recruiting more participants for the first time in a decade. The National Institutes of Health is funding an effort to get more […]

September 26, 2001