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Section: Health

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.

March 15, 2009

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.

March 12, 2009

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.

March 11, 2009

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.

March 4, 2009

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.

March 2, 2009

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.

February 23, 2009

Community Colleges May Soon Start Turning Students Away

Nicole Rodriguez has been waiting a year to get into Pima Community College’s nursing program. But she’s running out of patience.

February 18, 2009

Grants & Gifts

The COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA (Colo.) has received a $597,000 grant from the Lumina Foundation to establish an organization for business leaders to help promote public policy for two-year colleges. The CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM has been awarded a $2 MILLION grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to help train and educate students for […]

February 18, 2009

Morehouse School of Medicine Researcher Picked for Breast Cancer Journal Editorial Board

Dr. Veena N. Rao, co-director of the Cancer Biology Program and Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar at Morehouse School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has been selected to serve on the editorial board of The Open Breast Cancer Journal. Rao and co-investigators last year used a gene therapy to introduce a protein into […]

February 15, 2009

Hispanics in Health Care to Get Scholarships

Ten health professional students pursuing health-care careers in California will receive $5,000 and $2,000 scholarships today (Feb. 11) from the National Hispanic Health Foundation at a gala in Sacramento.

February 10, 2009

Senate Passes Economic Recovery Plan

Obama wants school funding restored

February 10, 2009

S.O.S. (Save Our Students)

One grieving mother seeks to raise awareness about a leading cause of death among Black male college students — suicide.

February 4, 2009

Suicide Increasing Rapidly Among Young, Black Males

One grieving mother seeks to raise awareness.

February 2, 2009

Kids Advocate for Health Care

Young people are using their artwork to pressure the new administration to pass a children’s health care bill.

January 25, 2009

Natives Won’t Be ‘Left Out of the Tent,’ Says Obama Official

The day before he was confirmed as U.S. Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, D-Colo., sought earlier this week to reassure tribal leaders that the Obama administration is serious about Native American issues and promised his department would work “hand in hand” with Indian communities.

January 20, 2009

Community Colleges

Rouse Expected to Sail Through Confirmation Hearing for Council of Economic Advisers

Dr. Cecilia Elena Rouse, a Princeton University economist, will bring expertise in labor as it relates specifically to education issues when she joins President-elect Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.

January 14, 2009

CNN: Gupta Approached About Surgeon General Post

President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, about becoming the country’s next surgeon general, the cable network said Tuesday.

January 6, 2009

Catching Up With Dr. Leonard Haynes

After a little more than a year as its executive director, Dr. Leonard L. Haynes III has been credited with substantially improving the performance of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

December 22, 2008