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Joint Center Health Official Challenges Black Doctors to Close Disparities Gap

Joint Center Health Official Challenges Black Doctors to Close Disparities GapThe country’s nagging health disparities problem was a key focus for Dr. Gail C. Christopher, director of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Health Policy Institute, when she addressed the 102nd annual convention of the National Medical Association on Aug. 2 in San […]

Benedict College Environmental Health Program

Benedict College Environmental Health Program First in South Carolina to Receive AccreditationCOLUMBIA, S.C.Those students across the nation seeking to earn an undergraduate degree in the environmental health field from an accredited program can now attend Benedict College, the first institution of higher learning in South Carolina to receive national accreditation in environmental health. Under the […]

Few College Programs Reap Gains From Education Spending Bill

Few College Programs Reap Gains From Education Spending BillHBCUs, community colleges receive small victoriesBy Charles DervaricsBlack colleges are one of the few winners in a new 2005 House education spending bill that largely holds the line on federal funding for higher education, including core financial aid programs essential for needy students.The main federal program for […]

Events

EVENTSAUGUSTAug. 6-10National Association of Black Journalists: 28th Annual Convention and Career Fair“Building the Best”DallasWeb: www.nabj.orgAug. 13-16Association of Black Sociologists“Frontloading Social Reality: Critical Demography and Black Superiority in Wealth, Stats and Power”Hyatt Regency, AtlantaContact: Frank Harold Wilson, program chairman, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeE-mail: chocchip@uwm.eduFax: (414) 229-4266Aug. 29-Sept. 1The Civil Rights Project“The Color Lines Conference:Segregation […]

UGA Wins Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism

UGA Wins Knight Chair in Health and Medical JournalismATHENS, Ga. The University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication won a major endowment grant to create an innovative Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism.The grant will allow the Grady College to develop and teach undergraduate and master’s courses in health and medical […]

Study Shows Eye Drops Can Delay, Prevent Glaucoma in Blacks

Study Shows Eye Drops Can Delay, Prevent Glaucoma in Blacks SACRAMENTO, Calif. University of California-Davis ophthalmologists and other researchers around the country have found that pressure-lowering eye drops can delay or possibly prevent the onset of glaucoma in almost 50 percent of African Americans who are at higher risk for developing the disease.The findings are based […]

More Research Needed on Growing Disparity Between White, Black Infant Death Rates, Experts Say

More Research Needed on Growing Disparity Between White, Black Infant Death Rates, Experts SayCHICAGO When Nakida Maxson was pregnant, some of her friends teased her about going to birthing classes and taking prenatal vitamins, saying they were things only White people did. Maxson, who’s Black, ignored her friends. “It’s not a White people thing, it’s […]

Blacks With Hypertension More Likely to Have Thicker Hearts, Study Finds

Blacks With Hypertension More Likely to Have Thicker Hearts, Study FindsDALLASResearchers say they may have found a new clue as to why Blacks are at greater risk of dying from heart disease than Whites. In the largest study of its kind, Blacks with high blood pressure were found to have thicker hearts than Whites with […]

N.C. Students, Faculty Address HIV Outbreak

N.C. Students, Faculty Address HIV OutbreakBy Eleanor Lee YatesDURHAM, N.C.More than 450 students and faculty from North Carolina’s 12 historically Black colleges and universities recently gathered to discuss the alarming increase of HIV rates among Black students. “Stomp Out HIV/STDs,” held on the weekend of March 20, was sponsored by North Carolina Central University and […]

Managed Care Organizations Shortchange Minority Medicaid Patients, Penn State Study Finds

Managed Care Organizations Shortchange Minority Medicaid Patients, Penn State Study FindsUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Even when they are enrolled in the same Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs), patients who are members of linguistic, racial or ethnic minorities report worse care than White English speakers, a Penn State-led study has shown. Asian non-English speakers reported the worst […]

President Bush Awards Harvard $107 Million in Africa AIDS Fight

President Bush Awards Harvard $107 Million in Africa AIDS FightWASHINGTONAt a State Department press conference last month, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Randall L. Tobias announced that the Harvard School of Public Health’s AIDS Treatment Care and Prevention Initiative in Africa […]

Health Disparities Report at Center of Controversy

Health Disparities Report at Center of ControversyDepartment altered scientists’ conclusions to fit ‘political goals,’ lawmakers saySeveral lawmakers released a report last month documenting substantial alterations to the National Healthcare Disparities Report made by officials at the Department of Health and Human Services. While the draft executive summary of the report prepared by HHS scientists called […]

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