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Last Updated: Feb 9th, 2007 - 17:18:29 |
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Minority Health Care---Separate and Unequal
While African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans make up more than 25
percent of the U.S. population, they account for only nine percent of nurses,
six percent of physicians, and five percent of dentists, according to the
Sullivan Commission report. Increasing the number of ethnic health care
providers, however, will not in itself solve this complex, multifaceted problem.
So what will? Science Spectrum recently interviewed several experts to
discover why minorities continue to suffer from disparities in health care and,
most importantly, to learn what can be done about it.
Nov 1, 2006, 17:36
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Nation’s Colleges Rediscover Multidisciplinary Studies
What’s going on here? What does it mean for today’s students? We sought out
renowned academic and scientific experts to get the answers.
Nov 1, 2006, 17:32
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Achievers Obscured by History
Black High Schools Sumner and Lincoln Dominated Science Awards in Kansas City in the 1950s. So why doesn't anybody know about this?
Jul 27, 2006, 08:31
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Race-based therapy: reincorporating old racial concepts?
Cancer of the colon and rectum is the third most common cause of cancer deaths for both Black men and women, with death rates approximately 30 percent higher than among whites, and more than two times higher than for Asian American, American Indians, and Hispanics. This finding, along with the emergence of BiDil - the first medication approved and marketed for treating specific racial and ethnic groups- add to tensions in medicine, especially as health disparities, genetic technology, and expanding pharmaceutical marketing are today’s major issues.
Jun 7, 2006, 07:53
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Malaria in Africa
Malaria, an infection characterized by fever, shivering, chills, malaise, headache and sweats, kills about a million people every year - 90 percent of them in Africa, 70 percent of whom are children under the age of five. This year, on April 25, the day when many parts of the world stop to take stock of the progress toward the goal of halving the burden of malaria by 2010, INDEPTH Network –a collaboration of 37 African and Asian research sites based in 19 countries - announced the establishment of the Malaria Clinical Trials Alliance.
Jun 6, 2006, 12:28
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