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One in Five Preschoolers Obese, Rate Higher for Minorities
A striking new study says almost 1 in 5 American 4-year-olds is obese, and the rate is alarmingly higher among American Indian children, with nearly a third of them obese.
Health
UCLA Study Outlines Strategy to Bolster Number of Black HIV/AIDS Researchers
While African-Americans are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, the number of Black HIV/AIDS researchers is in short supply. However, a research team at the University of California, Los Angeles is working to remedy this problem.
Latinx
In Tough Economy, MSIs Win Funding Increases
Several minority-serving institutions receive much-needed earmarks.
Leadership & Policy
Professional Appointments
DR. JIM YONG KIM has been appointed president of Dartmouth College (N.H.). He previously served as a professor of medicine and social medicine at Harvard Medical School and as the François Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. He holds a bachelor’s from Brown University, a medical […]
Faculty & Staff
Relishing Reprisal-free Research
While growing up, a career in medicine appealed to Dr. Hana Abdalla because of the community good she could accomplish. Women’s health issues also intrigued her because so many of them were not openly discussed in her native Sudan.
Faculty & Staff
Saving Lives in the Academy and Operating Room
First Hispanic University of Texas System chancellor tackles financial problems and challenges Top 10 admission rule, while still performing surgeries.
Students
Racial Health Disparities Called Most Prevalent Civil Rights Issue of Decade
To narrow the health disparities between minorities and White populations battling diabetes, HIV, prostate cancer and other diseases, the country must develop models of universal health care systems, train doctors to be culturally competent and extend access to high-quality health care to low-income and minority communities, said Dr. Chidi Achebe, president and CEO of Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center, during a workshop at the 59th annual American Medical Student Association national convention.
HBCUs
Earmarks Helpful for Minority-serving Institutions Struggling In Tough Economy
With Congress completing work on a $410 billion omnibus spending bill, minority-serving institutions can point to some tangible funding gains in the first months of 2009 with the possibility of more gains ahead.
Health
U.S. Blacks, Hispanics Have Higher End-of-life Costs
Striking new research shows dying Blacks and Hispanics in the United States have much steeper treatment costs than Whites, sobering evidence that racial health care differences continue right up until death.
Faculty & Staff
Saving Lives in the Academy and Operating Room
First Hispanic to head the University of Texas System plans to tackle financial problems and challenge Top 10 admission rule, while still performing surgeries.
Leadership & Policy
Dartmouth’s New President First Asian To Lead Ivy League Institution
A Korean-born doctor and humanitarian known as a leader the global fight against HIV/AIDS and other diseases will become the next president of Dartmouth College.
Health
Overcoming Odds: Brothers Graduate from Dartmouth, Build Clinic in Native Kenyan Village
Milton Ochieng’ always had in the back of his mind to help his rural village in western Kenya. But neither he nor his younger brother, Fred, ever dreamed they would study medicine at a U.S. university and go on to open a health clinic.
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