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Section: Health

African-American

Tough Times: African-American Realities Beneath the Breakthroughs

Despite enjoying progress on political fronts, poverty, HIV/AIDS and unemployment still plague Black America.

October 29, 2009

PARSING THE REACTION TO OBAMA

Scholars say extreme criticisms of president defy simple explanation.

October 28, 2009

Asian American Pacific Islander

Obama Restores Asian American Initiative, Gives Ed. Dept. a Lead Role

Two years after the Bush administration let its authority lapse, President Barack Obama has reinstated the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders with the U.S. Education Department in a major leadership role.

October 27, 2009

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke

African-American

Reforms Across Multiple Policy Areas Key to Eliminating Health Disparities, Experts Say

A panel of health policy experts Tuesday told congressional staff members and policy professionals that, while health care reform could play a powerful role in reducing health disparities between minorities and Whites, major policy reform in areas such as housing, transportation, agriculture and labor will also prove necessary to close the health care gap.

October 20, 2009

Dr. Brian Smedley

WASHINGTON UPDATE : COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE HEALTH CARE

Without health insurance, University of Maryland senior Susana Sagastizado gets nervous if her nose begins to run or her forehead starts to feel warm. They are all bad signs, she said, of an illness she can\’t afford – literally.

October 14, 2009

African-American

Hampton U. Summit To Promote Marriage, Two-Parent Families

Hampton University brings together religious leaders, psychologists, public health workers and other experts to discuss the state of marriage and talk about how to reverse trends such as high divorce rates and out-of-wedlock births.

September 28, 2009

African-American

Republican Leader Says Party Must Court Blacks

RNC Chair Michael Steele told audience at historically Black college that many African-Americans are frustrated with his party and said the Republicans must reach out to the Black community to remedy the situation. He said the party would need to take “baby steps” to win over Black voters.

September 22, 2009

Michael Steele Speaks at Philander Smith College

New Dartmouth President Inaugurated

Dartmouth College inaugurated Jim Yoon Kim as its president. Kim is the first Asian-American to lead an Ivy League school.

September 22, 2009

Jim Yong Kim Inaugurated as Dartmouth College President

African-American

Health Disparities Pose High Cost for American Economy, Researchers Say

For years minority health advocates have made a social justice argument to bring national attention to health disparities affecting minority Americans, but now they have an economic one.

September 21, 2009

Obama Pitches Health Care at College Campus

President Barack Obama called reinventing health care a “defining struggle of this generation” on Thursday, even as several Democrats criticized some of the fine print in a Senate proposal the president has praised.

September 17, 2009

College Students are Health Care’s Invisible Minority

Close to 5 million students don’t have health insurance, report says.

September 16, 2009

Community Colleges

Mission Accepted: Opening Laboratory Doors to Urban Minority Communities

Bio is big in Maryland — and getting bigger. Ours is one of eight states that together account for more than 60 percent of biomedical research spending by the National Institutes of Health and nearly 65 percent of all biotechnology patents, according to the Maryland Governor’s Workforce Investment Board. And since occupations related to life sciences and health are projected to grow by more than 20 percent over the next several years statewide, it’s a fi eld that promises some of the future’s most sought-after employment opportunities.

September 2, 2009

Kennedy Remembered as Social and Civil Rights Giant

Reflecting on the legacy left by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, President Barack Obama called the late Massachusetts legislator one of the “most accomplished Americans” in history and a man whose work in Congress helped give new opportunities to millions.

August 26, 2009

U.S. Colleges Prep for H1N1

Many health workers are encouraging students to get an annual seasonal flu vaccine and the H1N1 vaccine in mid-October. According to USA Today, college and university health care workers are stocking up on masks and flu-fighting drugs this fall. One health official says college students are more prone to swine flu than the regular winter […]

August 24, 2009

LA County Votes to Reopen Troubled Hospital, UC Expected to Staff the Facility

County officials on Tuesday approved a plan to fully reopen a troubled South Los Angeles hospital that has become a symbol of the area’s continued racial strife.

August 19, 2009

HBCU News Nuggets

With more than 100 historically Black colleges and universities in the country, we could not cover them all. Here’s a glimpse at initiatives some of them are pursuing.

August 19, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Pride and Peril: Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Diverse identifies five threats facing HBCUs and five opportunities that could define their futures.

August 19, 2009

Pa. health club gunman left $225,000 to university

George Sodini, the 48-year-old gunman who committed suicide after killing three women and wounding nine others at a Pittsburgh-area health club Aug. 4, wanted to leave his estimated $225,000 estate to the University of Pittsburgh. Sodini graduated from the university in 1992 with a degree in computer science. He had worked as a systems analyst […]

August 17, 2009