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Hampton-VTC Work to Close Diversity Gap in Medicine

ROANOKE, Va. — Two rising Hampton University juniors have already been guaranteed admission to the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, a year ahead of when most of their peers will even start applying. Kaia Amoah, 19, and Kenya Swilling, 18, are part of the fledgling VTC-Hampton University diversity program, launched this year by the […]

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Coalition Urges African-Americans to Be Proactive About Sexual Health

Despite greater access to health insurance, many people of color are still not taking advantage of preventive sexual health services. In response, the National Coalition for Sexual Health (NCSH) has issued a “call-to-action” to encourage African-Americans especially to take advantage of free preventive sexual health care services, including the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, female contraceptives, […]

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Black Doctors Group Backs Obama Action on Climate Change

DETROIT — The National Medical Association, which held its 113th annual convention in Detroit Aug. 1-5 and counts more than 30,000 African-American physicians as members, issued a statement backing the Environmental Protection Agency’s final Clean Power Plan, released August 3, to cut carbon pollution from the nation’s power plants. “Quite simply, the final Clean Power […]

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Heart Association Calls for Action on Social Concerns

While deaths from heart attacks, strokes and other heart diseases have been declining, that trend could reverse if social factors, including race, income, environment and education are not addressed, the American Heart Association said in a “first of its kind scientific statement” published in the association’s journal Circulation and released Aug. 3. AHA said that […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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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

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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, […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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