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Ghostbusters needed to show that black women can be scientists too

When the Ghostbusters reboot was announced, it was hailed as a victory for feminism. The film stars Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy as four women who save the world from an onslaught of ghosts, and I enjoyed it when I saw it. But it bothered me that while all the white […]

Medical schools must play a role in addressing racial disparities

In the wake of the brutal killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castille, Delrawn Small, and police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, America is confronting how its long history of racial injustice continues into the present. We must all address these wounds, including those of us in medicine. As medical students soon to be entrusted […]

Working long hours raises women’s risk of cancer, heart disease: study

Columbus, OH – Women who work long hours for most of their career are at a higher risk of developing cancer, heart disease and other chronic diseases, according to a study from Ohio State University. As part of the study, researchers used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 to examine 7,500 people […]

News from research organizations Increased prevalence of lupus in Non-Europeans has a genetic basis

Non-Europeans have a higher frequency of the gene variants that increase the risk of lupus as compared to the European population, a new study from researchers at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College London, has confirmed. The findings, which are published today in […]

Why Black Men Fear Any Police Encounter

Charles Kinsey held his hands in the air and shouted to police that the autistic man sitting on the street next to him wasn’t dangerous. A few seconds later, he felt a bullet rip into his leg. The therapist, who is black and works with people with disabilities, was rounding up a patient who had […]

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Jailed, Mentally Ill Rape Victim Sues Houston

HOUSTON —The 25-year-old rape victim, frightened and long-suffering from mental illness, agreed in December to testify against the Houston man who brutally assaulted her in 2013. She hoped to put him behind bars for life. But that decision to testify landed her in the Harris County jail for more than a month over the Christmas […]

Ohio Institutions Get $4.8M for Training

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Eighteen universities, medical schools and hospitals in Ohio have been awarded almost $4.8 million in federal funds as part of an effort to boost access to primary care. The workforce grants were recently announced by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration.Agency officials say the money will help fund education and training […]

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Legislators Knew Pot Law Had Flaws, Senator Says

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Some apparently unconstitutional portions of Ohio’s medical marijuana law, which set aside a percentage of the state’s pot licenses for minorities, were spotted during legislative debate but left in the bill to gain needed votes, a key lawmaker says. State Sen. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican, said legally prickly provisions exposed by […]

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Can super-sizing start with baby bottles?

As a country, we have a weight problem. A stunning two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese, putting them at risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and all the other health problems obesity brings. While there are myriad reasons we are getting fatter as a nation, one very real and simple one is that […]

Meet the Colorado doctor helping Hispanic families with Type 1 diabetes

The roads that led Dr. Andrea Gerard-Gonzalez to the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora weren’t all eight-lane expressways. A few of them weren’t even covered in asphalt. But each can be seen as a metaphor in the journey that brought her to Colorado, where she is making an […]

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Apathy of gov’t, a reason for high record of disease

The absence of funding and commitment on the part of government have been cited as one of the contributory factors to the increasing cases of sickle cell disease in Ghana. It is estimated that about a quarter of Ghanaians live with the condition unknowingly. According to the Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana, government has shown […]

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Charlize Theron: HIV spread through sexism, racism, homophobia

Durban (CNN) — Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron was born and raised in South Africa, where she grew up around HIV and experienced people dying from AIDS. Now 40, she blames society — not the infection — for why the virus still persists. On Monday, Theron took the stage before 18,000 doctors, researchers, activists, policymakers and […]

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