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Campaigning for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Campaigning for a Commercial-Free ChildhoodHoward University conference addresses the dangers of marketing to childrenBy Ronald RoachWASHINGTONAnational coalition dedicated to protecting children from the marketing efforts of companies held its fourth national conference in Washington. Convening on the Howard University campus, the two-day Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) conference had highlights that included a speech […]
April 6, 2005
Health
Events
APRIL April 10-12NACADA Mid-South Regional Conference “Excellence in Advising: Guiding Students to the Winner’s Circle”The Chamberly Brown HotelLouisville, Ky.Web: www.nacada.ksu.edu/Regional_Divisions/region3/confindex.htmApril 16Herman C. Hudson Graduate Student Symposium“Challenging Racism, (Hetero) Sexism, Classism and Homophobia in the African Diaspora”Indiana University, BloomingtonEmail: aaads@indiana.eduApril 20-23Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission28th Annual Conference on Black History in PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaWeb: www.phmc.state.pa.us April 21-22NACADA North Central […]
March 23, 2005
Health
Saving A Generation
Saving A GenerationNorth Carolina public health department partners with state’s Black colleges to raise awareness about HIV/AIDSBy Crystal L. Keels North Carolina A&T does it. Across the street, Bennett College does it too. So do Elizabeth City State University, Livingstone and Fayetteville State. These North Carolina-based historically Black institutions have made HIV/AIDS education a part […]
March 23, 2005
Health
Survival at Stake
Survival at StakeUniversity of North Carolina’s Dr. Adaora Adimora searches for answers into HIV transmission among African AmericansBy Eleanor Lee YatesChapel Hill, N.C.During the 1980s and into the ’90s, HIV and AIDS primarily affected gay White men. The rates of HIV/AIDS stabilized in the 1990s in the United States, but today the numbers are soaring […]
March 23, 2005
African-American
On the Frontline of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
On the Frontline of the HIV/AIDS EpidemicWith infection rates still escalating among African Americans, researchers, scholars and activists wonder if the battle is a losing oneBy B. Denise HawkinsMost days, Cynthia Davis is an exasperated trooper who can always be found teaching and preaching from the frontline of the AIDS epidemic in Los Angeles. The […]
March 23, 2005
Health
Researchers, Students, Gather in Hawaii For Violence Prevention Conference
Researchers, Students, Gather in Hawaii For Violence Prevention Conference More than 800 researchers, scholars, violence prevention professionals, community activists and students are expected to gather in Honolulu April 6-9 for “Navigating Pathways to Violence Prevention,” the sixth National Conference on Family Community Violence Prevention.Sponsored by the Family and Community Violence Prevention program, a joint initiative […]
March 23, 2005
Native Americans
Congressional Alliance to Tackle Minority Health Disparities
Congressional Alliance to Tackle Minority Health Disparities WASHINGTONIn collaboration with Newt Gingrich, the former U.S. Speaker of the House and founder of the Center for Health Transformation, and Peter Deutsch, former U.S. Representative from Florida, the National Minority Health Month Foundation (NMHMF) announced the formation of the Congressional Leadership Alliance to       Eliminate Health Disparities. “This […]
February 23, 2005
Health
Hampton University Center
Hampton University Center to Focus On Breast and Prostate Cancer ResearchHAMPTON, Va.  Hampton University is planning the construction of a 64,000-square-foot Biomedical Research Center on the university campus. Funded by HU and a federal government agency, the state-of-the-art facility will be an interdisciplinary center for biomedical researchers from both HU and the local region.HU’s Biomedical […]
February 23, 2005
Health
New Joint Center Partnership Focuses
New Joint Center Partnership Focuses On Diversifying Health Care Work Force      WASHINGTONThe Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has partnered with former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, to increase racial and ethnic diversity within the nation’s health care work force. This alliance will spearhead the […]
February 23, 2005
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Launches Patient Internet Portal
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Launches Patient Internet Portal PITTSBURGHThe University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has launched an Internet-based program for diabetes patients that allows them to communicate more effectively with their doctors from any location and to better manage their health care by using an Internet portal. The Web-based initiative, known as UPMC […]
February 9, 2005
Health
Milk Matters
Milk MattersAfrican Americans are not getting enough calcium, one of two emerging health issues to be concerned about, researcher saysDiets high in fat and calories and low in calcium, may not only be putting African- American children at risk for obesity, but can make them prone to a common bone disease associated with adults at […]
January 26, 2005
Faculty & Staff
Taking an Interdisciplinary Approach
Taking an Interdisciplinary Approach Ten African-American scholars combine expertise to get at the root of obesityFor decades in the obesity research community, the name Dr. Shiriki K. Kumanyika has been virtually synonymous with culturally specific weight-control and dietary change research. But when she decided to take a more activist role in designing research to reduce […]
January 26, 2005
Health
Cultural Attitudes And Body Dissatisfaction
Cultural Attitudes And Body DissatisfactionMorgan State researchers find that perceptions of body image among young African Americans may be life threateningBALTIMOREYoung African Americans don’t appear to perceive obesity in the way the medical community does, putting them at greater risk for developing chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and cancer, says a first-ever study led […]
January 26, 2005
Health
Weighing In On African American Obesity
Weighing In On African American Obesity Researchers look for clues in eliminating obesity-related disparities, particularly among Black womenBy B. Denise HawkinsEverybody is getting fatter. The poor are getting fatter, Gen Xers are getting fatter, African-American women and Hispanic men are getting fatter, and children too young to even have a category are really getting fatter. […]
January 26, 2005
Health
A Healthier, Happier New Year
A Healthier, Happier New YearIt’s almost inevitable that the dawn of a New Year inspires many of us to dedicate ourselves to a healthier lifestyle. After putting on a few extra pounds during the holiday season, we often find ourselves resolving in January to slim down and to maintain an optimal weight. How well Americans […]
January 26, 2005
Health
National HIV/AIDS Writing Competition
National HIV/AIDS Writing Competition Gives Young People a VoiceNEW YORKShawn C. Nabors, 14, of Brooklyn, N.Y., is the winner of “Positively Negative,” an HIV/AIDS National story-writing competition for youth ages 14-22. Nabors will receive a $500 cash prize and his story will be adapted into a screenplay and made into an HIV/AIDS educational film to […]
December 29, 2004
Native Americans
New England Tribal College Would Be The First to Serve Eastern Tribes
New England Tribal College Would Be The First to Serve Eastern TribesHARTFORD, Conn. The modern-day reawakening of American Indian groups across New England could spawn something never seen on the East Coast: a college dedicated to the region’s estimated 40,000 people with native roots. A tribal college would offer a connecting point for New England’s […]
December 15, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Finding The Right Prescription
Finding The Right PrescriptionIn stiff competition with the private sector for pharmacy faculty, academia often finds itself on the losing side By Tracie PowellAn aging population, the changing role of pharmacists as health systems rely more heavily on newer, sophisticated drug therapies to cure ills, and a proliferation of corner drug stores is driving a […]
November 17, 2004
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