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NIH Funds Michigan Project to Improve Racial Disparities in Pregnancy Outcomes
NIH Funds Michigan Project to Improve Racial Disparities in Pregnancy OutcomesANN ARBOR, Mich.Black women are three times more likely than White women to die during pregnancy, and twice as many Black babies as White babies die in infancy. Yet researchers know little about why pregnancy and infant health differ by race, despite massive efforts to […]
November 3, 2004
Health
U.S. Health Care Professions Separate and Unequal
U.S. Health Care Professions Separate and UnequalSullivan Commission: Lack of diversity may be greatest cause of health disparitiesWASHINGTONA  lack of diversity among health care professionals is placing the health of at least one-third of the nation at risk. This fact was among findings announced recently by the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce […]
October 6, 2004
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Leaders Urge Schools to Address ‘Culture of Detachment’ Among Students
Leaders Urge Schools to Address ‘Culture of Detachment’ Among StudentsBALTIMORECiting a vast body of empirical evidence, leaders in education and public health policy are calling on the nation’s schools to strengthen their connections with students, outlining a multi-pronged strategy aimed at boosting academic performance while reducing drug and alcohol use, suicide, violence, smoking and sex […]
September 22, 2004
Health
Meeting the Challenges Of Change
Meeting the Challenges Of ChangeTIAA-CREF’s BeRtram L. Scott discusses how the legendary financial institution responds to new environments in its quest to continue to help higher education professionals By Frank L. MatthewsIn an era in which change is very much the norm, some would argue that a no-nonsense financial institution like TIAA-CREF changes at its […]
August 25, 2004
Health
Auditors Recommend USC Return Nearly $1 Million
Auditors Recommend USC Return Nearly $1 Million For HIV/AIDS Training LapseLOS ANGELES Federal auditors have recommended the University of Southern California repay or forfeit more than $1 million in government funds following lapses in its training program for HIV/AIDS counselors for minority communities. Federal officials shut down the university’s program in 2001 amid concerns about […]
August 25, 2004
Health
University of Maryland Establishes Center To Promote Equal Access to Health Care
University of Maryland Establishes Center To Promote Equal Access to Health CareBALTIMORE Heart disease among Blacks, chewing tobacco in Western Maryland, geographic isolation on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and diabetes rates among Hispanics are some of the issues that will be tackled by a new University of Maryland center dedicated to eliminating health care disparities for […]
August 25, 2004
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Joint Center Health Official Challenges Black Doctors to Close Disparities Gap
Joint Center Health Official Challenges Black Doctors to Close Disparities GapThe country’s nagging health disparities problem was a key focus for Dr. Gail C. Christopher, director of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Health Policy Institute, when she addressed the 102nd annual convention of the National Medical Association on Aug. 2 in San […]
August 25, 2004
Health
Benedict College Environmental Health Program
Benedict College Environmental Health Program First in South Carolina to Receive AccreditationCOLUMBIA, S.C.Those students across the nation seeking to earn an undergraduate degree in the environmental health field from an accredited program can now attend Benedict College, the first institution of higher learning in South Carolina to receive national accreditation in environmental health. Under the […]
August 11, 2004
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Few College Programs Reap Gains From Education Spending Bill
Few College Programs Reap Gains From Education Spending BillHBCUs, community colleges receive small victoriesBy Charles DervaricsBlack colleges are one of the few winners in a new 2005 House education spending bill that largely holds the line on federal funding for higher education, including core financial aid programs essential for needy students.The main federal program for […]
July 28, 2004
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Events
EVENTSAUGUSTAug. 6-10National Association of Black Journalists: 28th Annual Convention and Career Fair“Building the Best”DallasWeb: www.nabj.orgAug. 13-16Association of Black Sociologists“Frontloading Social Reality: Critical Demography and Black Superiority in Wealth, Stats and Power”Hyatt Regency, AtlantaContact: Frank Harold Wilson, program chairman, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeE-mail: chocchip@uwm.eduFax: (414) 229-4266Aug. 29-Sept. 1The Civil Rights Project“The Color Lines Conference:Segregation […]
July 16, 2004
Health
UGA Wins Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism
UGA Wins Knight Chair in Health and Medical JournalismATHENS, Ga. The University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication won a major endowment grant to create an innovative Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism.The grant will allow the Grady College to develop and teach undergraduate and master’s courses in health and medical […]
July 14, 2004
Health
Study Shows Eye Drops Can Delay, Prevent Glaucoma in Blacks
Study Shows Eye Drops Can Delay, Prevent Glaucoma in Blacks SACRAMENTO, Calif. University of California-Davis ophthalmologists and other researchers around the country have found that pressure-lowering eye drops can delay or possibly prevent the onset of glaucoma in almost 50 percent of African Americans who are at higher risk for developing the disease.The findings are based […]
July 14, 2004
Health
More Research Needed on Growing Disparity Between White, Black Infant Death Rates, Experts Say
More Research Needed on Growing Disparity Between White, Black Infant Death Rates, Experts SayCHICAGO When Nakida Maxson was pregnant, some of her friends teased her about going to birthing classes and taking prenatal vitamins, saying they were things only White people did. Maxson, who’s Black, ignored her friends. “It’s not a White people thing, it’s […]
June 16, 2004
Health
Blacks With Hypertension More Likely to Have Thicker Hearts, Study Finds
Blacks With Hypertension More Likely to Have Thicker Hearts, Study FindsDALLASResearchers say they may have found a new clue as to why Blacks are at greater risk of dying from heart disease than Whites. In the largest study of its kind, Blacks with high blood pressure were found to have thicker hearts than Whites with […]
June 2, 2004
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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 […]
April 21, 2004
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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 […]
March 24, 2004
Health
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 […]
March 24, 2004
Health
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 […]
February 11, 2004
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