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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 […]

Dallas Barbers Assist in Efforts to Curb Hypertension Rates

Dallas Barbers Assist in Efforts to Curb Hypertension RatesDALLASDallas barbers are helping physicians cut high blood pressure among African American men, the group with the highest rate of uncontrolled hypertension in the United States. A program started at two Dallas barbershops by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is designed to improve the […]

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsThe Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation awarded a total of $25 million in grants to eight U.S. universities that pledged to make entrepreneurship education available across campus. The selected universities receiving multi-million dollar grants are: Florida International University, $3 million; Howard University, $3.1 million; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, $4.5 million; University of North […]

Report: Race, Income Key Factors in Women’s Health, Insurance

Report: Race, Income Key Factors in Women’s Health, InsuranceLOS ANGELESRace and income levels are key factors in determining whether women are healthy and whether they have health insurance, according to a public health report released last month.The University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Health Policy Research examined overall health, insurance coverage and access to […]

Colleges Receive Joint Grant to Battle Obesity in Minorities

Colleges Receive Joint Grant to Battle Obesity in Minorities CLEMSON, S.C. Clemson University and Voorhees College have received a $5.26 million grant to develop a joint program to battle obesity among rural South Carolina minorities. The program will train future health care educators and workers to reduce and eliminate the disproportionate amount of disease and […]

Study Finds Prostate Cancer Treatment Less Successful for Blacks

Study Finds Prostate Cancer Treatment Less Successful for BlacksCHAPEL HILL, N.C.Black men tend to have poorer overall survival rates than White men after being treated for localized prostate cancer, a new study shows.The findings, published in a November issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, also show the greatest disparity to be among […]

Former Meharry Medical School Dean Wins Nickens Award

Former Meharry Medical School Dean Wins Nickens AwardWASHINGTONA former dean of the school of medicine at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., has been named the most recent recipient of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) prestigious Herbert W. Nickens, M.D., Award. Dr. Anna Cherrie Epps, who now serves as senior adviser to the […]

AIDS Treatment Study in Africa Enrolls First Participants

AIDS Treatment Study in Africa Enrolls First ParticipantsCHAPEL HILL, N.C.After overcoming numerous financial and governmental obstacles, doctors have enrolled five people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in the first National Institutes of Health-funded AIDS treatment research study in Africa.When those patients complete four weeks of successful therapy, another 15 will be enrolled […]

Federal Government Awards $14 Million To Tuskegee Bioethics Center

Federal Government Awards $14 Million To Tuskegee Bioethics CenterWASHINGTONThe federal government has awarded a $14 million grant to Tuskegee University to complete its National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care.The center is the nation’s first bioethics institute dedicated to addressing issues that involve African Americans and other underserved populations. It was created in […]

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