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A Healthier, Happier New Year

A Healthier, Happier New YearIt’s almost inevitable that the dawn of a New Year inspires many of us to dedicate ourselves to a healthier lifestyle. After putting on a few extra pounds during the holiday season, we often find ourselves resolving in January to slim down and to maintain an optimal weight. How well Americans […]

January 26, 2005

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National HIV/AIDS Writing Competition

National HIV/AIDS Writing Competition Gives Young People a VoiceNEW YORKShawn C. Nabors, 14, of Brooklyn, N.Y., is the winner of “Positively Negative,” an HIV/AIDS National story-writing competition for youth ages 14-22. Nabors will receive a $500 cash prize and his story will be adapted into a screenplay and made into an HIV/AIDS educational film to […]

December 29, 2004

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NIH Funds Michigan Project to Improve Racial Disparities in Pregnancy Outcomes

NIH Funds Michigan Project to Improve Racial Disparities in Pregnancy OutcomesANN ARBOR, Mich.Black women are three times more likely than White women to die during pregnancy, and twice as many Black babies as White babies die in infancy. Yet researchers know little about why pregnancy and infant health differ by race, despite massive efforts to […]

November 3, 2004

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U.S. Health Care Professions Separate and Unequal

U.S. Health Care Professions Separate and UnequalSullivan Commission: Lack of diversity may be greatest cause of health disparitiesWASHINGTONA  lack of diversity among health care professionals is placing the health of at least one-third of the nation at risk. This fact was among findings announced recently by the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce […]

October 6, 2004

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University of Maryland Establishes Center To Promote Equal Access to Health Care

University of Maryland Establishes Center To Promote Equal Access to Health CareBALTIMORE Heart disease among Blacks, chewing tobacco in Western Maryland, geographic isolation on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and diabetes rates among Hispanics are some of the issues that will be tackled by a new University of Maryland center dedicated to eliminating health care disparities for […]

August 25, 2004

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Joint Center Health Official Challenges Black Doctors to Close Disparities Gap

Joint Center Health Official Challenges Black Doctors to Close Disparities GapThe country’s nagging health disparities problem was a key focus for Dr. Gail C. Christopher, director of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Health Policy Institute, when she addressed the 102nd annual convention of the National Medical Association on Aug. 2 in San […]

August 25, 2004

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Events

EVENTSAUGUSTAug. 6-10National Association of Black Journalists: 28th Annual Convention and Career Fair“Building the Best”DallasWeb: www.nabj.orgAug. 13-16Association of Black Sociologists“Frontloading Social Reality: Critical Demography and Black Superiority in Wealth, Stats and Power”Hyatt Regency, AtlantaContact: Frank Harold Wilson, program chairman, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeE-mail: [email protected]: (414) 229-4266Aug. 29-Sept. 1The Civil Rights Project“The Color Lines Conference:Segregation […]

July 16, 2004

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Study Shows Eye Drops Can Delay, Prevent Glaucoma in Blacks

Study Shows Eye Drops Can Delay, Prevent Glaucoma in Blacks SACRAMENTO, Calif. University of California-Davis ophthalmologists and other researchers around the country have found that pressure-lowering eye drops can delay or possibly prevent the onset of glaucoma in almost 50 percent of African Americans who are at higher risk for developing the disease.The findings are based […]

July 14, 2004

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More Research Needed on Growing Disparity Between White, Black Infant Death Rates, Experts Say

More Research Needed on Growing Disparity Between White, Black Infant Death Rates, Experts SayCHICAGO When Nakida Maxson was pregnant, some of her friends teased her about going to birthing classes and taking prenatal vitamins, saying they were things only White people did. Maxson, who’s Black, ignored her friends. “It’s not a White people thing, it’s […]

June 16, 2004

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Blacks With Hypertension More Likely to Have Thicker Hearts, Study Finds

Blacks With Hypertension More Likely to Have Thicker Hearts, Study FindsDALLASResearchers say they may have found a new clue as to why Blacks are at greater risk of dying from heart disease than Whites. In the largest study of its kind, Blacks with high blood pressure were found to have thicker hearts than Whites with […]

June 2, 2004

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Health Disparities Report at Center of Controversy

Health Disparities Report at Center of ControversyDepartment altered scientists’ conclusions to fit ‘political goals,’ lawmakers saySeveral lawmakers released a report last month documenting substantial alterations to the National Healthcare Disparities Report made by officials at the Department of Health and Human Services. While the draft executive summary of the report prepared by HHS scientists called […]

February 11, 2004

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Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsThe Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation awarded a total of $25 million in grants to eight U.S. universities that pledged to make entrepreneurship education available across campus. The selected universities receiving multi-million dollar grants are: Florida International University, $3 million; Howard University, $3.1 million; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, $4.5 million; University of North […]

January 14, 2004