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Young Graduates Worst Off Among the Uninsured

TUCSON, Ariz. Congratulations, Shannon Tighe. You are a University of Arizona graduate. But you have no medical insurance.

Pinn expands the scope of NIH – Vivian W. Pinn, National Institutes of Health – special report: health sciences

When Dr. Bernadine Healy, the renowned A cardiologist who was the first woman to head the National Institutes of Health (NIH), undertook a search in 1991 to hire the first permanent director of NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH), she did not have to look far to fill the position.

Sports medicine given new prescription: team work – includes related article on careers in sports medicine – special report: health sciences

Sports medicine used to be the sole responsibility of athletic trainers and team doctors, whose only emphasis was treating injured athletes.

Faculty & Staff

Examining higher education’s role in health care – educating personnel for allied health services – special report: health sciences

To meet health industry needs for thousands of physical therapists, occupational therapists and other trained health professionals, colleges and universities have revamped their course offerings. Even so, they turn down more students than they accept.

Seeking the cure – nursing program at South Carolina State University – special report: health sciences

ORANGEBURG, S.C. Facing the threat of closure, the nursing program at South Carolina State University is searching for a cure to its problem of low passing rates among graduates who take the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN).

Black medical community boosts AIDS research – special report: health sciences

In 1991, when Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, and Dr. Barbara Justice, learned that an immunologist in Kenya was achieving near-miraculous results treating HIV/AIDs patients with a substance called “kemron,” the two African-American physicians had to see for themselves.

Miracles – political and medical – in South Africa

Some U.S. congressional leaders are calling projects funded by the United States Agency for International Develop it (USAID) at historically Black American institutions working in South Africa examples of “reverse discrimination.”

In appreciation: Joan P. Cerstvik – special report: health sciences – includes excerpt from Wisdom and Hindsight: Render Brown’s Goals ‘Incomplete’ – Obituary

Many of you who have been in contact with us since we began publishing Black Issues In Higher Education in 1984 have had the god fortune of speaking and working with Joan Cerstvik, our longtime Operations Manager and our first retiree.

DNA mapping: a road less traveled by HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities, Human Genome Project – special report:health sciences

It is possible that in the very near future, a doctor will be able to take a blood sample — or even a piece of toenail — from a person and tell everything about who they are biologically.

LSU wants state health secretary to run med school, hospitals

BATON ROUGE, La. Louisiana State University is trying to convince the head of the state health department to run its medical school and hospitals, including the state charity hospital system.

Nevada University Need to Offer Health Benefits to Domestic Partners, Says Public Employees Benefits Board

CARSON CITY Nev. Nevada’s universities need to offer health benefits to employees’ domestic partners in order to stay competitive in hiring faculty and staff, state regulators were told Wednesday.

Affirmative action is indispensable if we want doctors for the 21st century – importance of minority representation in medicine

Affirmative action is an umbrella that covers many activities — from aggressive recruiting to filling quotas, from the awarding of contracts to higher education admissions. This means that opponents can call up unpopular images of the most aggressive examples of affirmative action (such as hiring set-asides) to attack the entire idea of affirmative action.

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