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UNEQUAL TREATMENT: CONFRONTING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE

UNEQUAL TREATMENT: CONFRONTING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CAREFor many in the U.S. health care establishment and the media, the March 2002 release of “Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care” by the Institute of Medicine brought unexpected news. The 562-page report, which reviewed more than 100 studies, concluded that minorities […]

Race Matters Health Care

Race Matters Health CareExperts say eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities is the civil rights issue of our dayWASHINGTONWhen the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine released its report earlier this year documenting that minorities, regardless of income, education and access, were discriminated against in health care, many African Americans in the medical and health care […]

Calling on the Black Community’s Best and Brightest

Calling on the Black Community’s Best and BrightestI was one of those people who associate editor Robin Smiles in her article “Race Matters in Health Care” says “yawned” when the Institute of Medicine released its report recently, which documented that minorities, regardless of income, education and access, were discriminated against in health care. I thought […]

Leadership & Policy

Howard University Student Crowned Miss USA

Howard University Student Crowned Miss USAGARY, Ind.Howard University broadcast communications major Shauntay Hinton, 23, was crowned Miss USA earlier this month. The Starkville, Miss., native’s knees buckled when she was declared the winner at the pageant held in Gary, Ind. “It took all of my strength to lift myself back up,” she says. “It’s just […]

Surgeon General to Head Morehouse Center

Surgeon General to Head Morehouse CenterATLANTAU.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher announced last month that he will become director of a new center at historically Black Morehouse College that will press for better access to health care for minorities. Accepting the new job on the holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, Satcher invoked […]

Sexual Health Resources

Sexual Health Resources On CD-RomLooking for a high-tech way to educate students about sex? The Bacchus & Gamma Peer Education Network has developed a CD-ROM that just might be an answer to your prayers. Sex in the CD is an interactive computer “adventure” designed to engage students in discussions about safe sex, healthy relationships and […]

Sexual Responsibility on Campus

Sexual Responsibility on CampusInstitutions take a closer look at their rolein today’s sexually tolerant environment.By Cheryl D. FieldsWhen Dr. Iverson Bell first came to Morehouse College as a freshman in 1969, the campus code of conduct regarding mingling with students of the opposite sex was fairly rigid. “The era of suits and ties was over […]

Let’s Talk About Sex

Let’s Talk About SexATTENTION RESEARCHERS! If you’re looking for a topic that is begging for more scholarly investigation, I’ve got a suggestion: Sex and the African American College Student. This edition’s cover story (see pg. 18) explores how responsible colleges and universities are in providing sexual health support, treatment and information for their students. Some […]

Study: Hispanics Dominate California Birth Rate

Study: Hispanics Dominate California Birth RateLOS ANGELESIn another sign that Hispanics will dominate California’s future, a university study has found the ethnic group accounted for nearly half of all births in the state by the end of the last decade. Hispanic mothers had 247,796 of the 521,265 children born in California in 1998, or 47.5 […]

University of Louisville Plans Center to Prepare For Biological Attacks

University of Louisville Plans Center to Prepare For Biological AttacksLOUISVILLE, Ky. The University of Louisville’s role in the crisis-response network has expanded since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the recent anthrax exposures. Its microbiology lab has tested more than 90 samples of mysterious substances reported by businesses and law-enforcement agencies. The university’s professors also […]

Leadership & Policy

Meharry, Vanderbilt to Fund Study of Cancer Among Blacks

Meharry, Vanderbilt to Fund Study of Cancer Among BlacksNASHVILLE, Tenn. A $22 million grant announced last month for researchers at Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Institute will fund a multistate study to explain why Blacks die of cancer at disproportionately high rates. The five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute will be used for […]

Survey Suggests Link between Racism, High Blood Pressure in African Americans

Survey Suggests Link between Racism, High Blood Pressure in African Americans ATLANTAResearchers at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta have provided the first empirical evidence suggesting that racism may be a contributing factor to the unusually high prevalence of high blood pressure and its attendant cardiovascular effects among African Americans. The connection was revealed […]

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