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Disparities
10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Replaces Charity Hospital
NEW ORLEANS — Ten years after the levees and floodwalls broke during Hurricane Katrina and flooded New Orleans, the Big Easy finally has a full-scale hospital again — a new Charity hospital. At 6 a.m. Saturday (AUG. 1), the new 2.3 million-square-foot University Medical Center New Orleans, built with $1.1 billion of federal, state and […]
Research
Myanmar Factions Bond to Fight Malaria
WASHINGTON — Setting aside decades of animosity and suspicion, senior Myanmar government and military officials have held unprecedented discussions with representatives of the main opposition party and ethnic minorities in Washington on fighting a common enemy — malaria. In a meeting, Monday (Aug. 3), also attended by the U.S. government and military, scientific researchers and […]
Disparities
More Black Men in Med School in 1978 Than in 2014
DETROIT, Mich. — The number of black males applying to and attending medical school in this country has declined since 1978, according to a new publication recently released the Association of American Medical Colleges. AAMC said that despite an overall increase in the number of black male college graduates over the past three decades, the […]
Disparities
Police Injured Sister Protecting Her Mentally Ill Son, NAACP Leader Says
PORTLAND, Ore. — An NAACP chapter president says police in Eugene, Oregon, used excessive force on his sister after she tried to stop an officer from deploying a Taser stun gun on her 19-year-old son. Eric Richardson, president of the Eugene-Springfield NAACP chapter, said Ayisha Brown called a mental health service early July 16 because […]
Community Colleges
Dearth of Blacks Males in Med Schools Has Experts Scrambling for Solutions
Health care educators and presidents of some of the nation’s historically Black medical colleges spent the week strategizing over how best to increase the applicant pool as well as boost admittance
Disparities
Grant Backs Joint Meharry-Vanderbilt HIV Project
Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University are working together to expand HIV research in the state of Tennessee under a $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The HBCU and majority White university have collaborated before on HIV research, but this five-year grant includes the Tennessee Department of Health as a full partner, […]
Disparities
People of Color, Southerners, Women Most Likely to be Disabled, CDC says
One out of every five adults In the United States has a disability, according to a study published July 30 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We are all at risk of having a disability at some point in our lifetime,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. “Health professionals and health care […]
Disparities
Obama Signs Order on Federal HIV Priorities
President Obama on July 30 signed an Executive Order detailing principles and priorities to guide collective national work to address HIV through 2020. The original goals of the strategy first released in 2010 were to reduce new HIV infections, increase access to care and improve health outcomes for those living with HIV, reduce HIV disparities […]
Disparities
Enroll in Clinical Trials, SD Official Urges
PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota Lt. Gov. Matt Michaels has joined peers in other states in encouraging patients to participate in clinical trials. The National Lieutenant Governors Association has launched a campaign to raise awareness about the need for people of all races to participate in trials searching for cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s treatments. Michaels […]
Disparities
Rwandan Health Minister to Address NIH
Bethesda, Md.— The National Institutes of Health has announced that Rwanda’s Minister of Health, Agnes Binagwaho, M.D., Ph.D., will visit its Bethesda campus on Wednesday, July 29 to deliver the 2015 David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture. The annual event honors the late Dr. Barmes, a public health dentist and epidemiologist who devoted his career […]
Policies
SC Democrats Back Medicaid Expansion
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Democrats plan to renew efforts next year to expand Medicaid eligibility in South Carolina, saying that’s the most important way to continue the work of their slain colleague, Sen. Clementa Pinckney. It will be a tough sell in a state where Republican opposition hasn’t budged since a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling […]
Nursing
Nurses Union Names “Systemic Racism” as a Health Threat
Linking racism to issues of public health, National Nurses United has issued a statement “urging all presidential candidates to address the pervasive problems of racial and economic justice that have so stained our nation.” NNU is the largest union of registered nurses in the country with 185,000 members. In the statement issued Thursday (July 23), […]
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