Tag: Medicine: Page 14

International

8 U.S. students graduate from free Cuban medical school

HAVANA Eight American students graduated from a Cuban medical school on Tuesday and said they planned to put six years of education paid for by Fidel Castro’s communist government to use in hospitals back home.

July 26, 2007

Health

Developed nations draining poor countries of doctors

JACKSON Miss. While many foreign doctors are drawn to the United States to treat underserved poor and rural areas, some experts and health officials say the physicians are needed more at home.

July 22, 2007

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UA programs aim to recruit, train and retain rural doctors

MONTGOMERY Ala. As a physician in a rural area, Dr. Deanah Maxwell knows there are times she’ll be stopped in the grocery store or at church for advice sometimes not even medical advice. But for her, that’s half the appeal of being a small-town doctor.

July 22, 2007

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Touro College Physician Assistant Program Under Fire

NEW YORK The warning from the district attorney was strong: Be careful if you’re considering hiring a physician assistant who recently graduated from Touro College. A former administrator and nine others were indicted in connection with a scheme to falsify grades and degrees, including for physician assistants.

July 17, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Emerging From the Shadows – Spelman College

Audrey Forbes Manley, M.D., is a former student, activist alumna, trustee, and widow of a former Spelman College president. Now she’s in charge, but after more than a year in office, some observers still don’t know what she’s about.

July 14, 2007

Health

The Tuskegee Experiment’s Long Shadow

Scholars examine the impact of conspiracy theories on African Americans

July 14, 2007

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Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males. – book reviews

Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males relates wonderful stories of parents striving successfully to raise academically high-achieving African American boys who are then encouraged to excel in college and subsequently go on to elite graduate and professional schools in medicine, mathematics, science, and engineering.

July 12, 2007

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A pair deals seven of a kind: educational preparation and poise result in historic delivery – Black female physicians participate in delivery and media coverage of septuplets

Des Moines, Iowa You could feel the surprise and excitement. Not just because medical history had been made with the birth of the first known surviving septuplets, but because of the people who sat down behind the two desk signs — “Dr. Paula Mahone” and “Dr. Karen Drake.”

July 11, 2007

Health

Less sugar and more of the sweet life: the Diabetes Prevention Program

Washington The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) is a researh study being conducted at twenty-five medical centers around the country. Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the program hopes to prove that type 2 diabetes can be prevented by altering one’s lifestyle and/or medication.

July 11, 2007

African-American

A prescription for participation: diabetes study helping African Americans overcome fears of ethnic medical research

They don’t want to take pills. They’re unwilling to participate in randomized trials. They are reluctant to take a chance,” says Robert Ratner, M.D., head of the Medlantic Clinical Research Center in Washington, D.C., discussing why some people don’t want to participate in medical research. “There remains reluctance to participate in any medical study. Some of it is, `I want someone else to do it so I “know it’s safe, then I’ll do it’ — the guinea-pig phenomenon.”

July 11, 2007

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“Hostile environment”: reducing applications to medical schools nationwide – elimination of affirmative action in California, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi

WASHINGTON – The elimination of affirmative action in California, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi has had a chilling effect on the enrollment and acceptance of racial and ethnic minorities in medical schools across the country, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

July 11, 2007

HBCUs

In the spirit of healing; Morehouse medical professors win grant to teach the medicinal power of spirituality – Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia

When a pastor who is also an internist, and a “Christian who happens to be a physician” get together, their conversations begin with medicine but always end on religion, says Dr. Valencia Clay of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.

July 11, 2007