Attention, Filipino nurses: If you are an alumnus of the University of the Philippines-Manila College of Nursing (UPCN), or if you simply want to show your support for this venerable educational institution, UPCN’s newly established Faculty Endowment Fund hopes to […]
University of the Philippines Nursing Faculty Fund Needs You! Read More »
Is American health care ready for the first-ever drug targeted specifically to African Americans? On June 23, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved BiDil® (isosorbide dinitrate/hydralazine hydrochloride), manufactured by NitroMed, Inc., for the treatment of heart failure in
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Does it sometimes seem to you that despite years of efforts to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities very little progress is being made? Then here’s some encouraging news. The results of a study by the Centers for Disease Control
Immunization Disparities Gap Finally Starting to Close Read More »
Two of California’s most distinguished minority nurses, both of whom have devoted much of their careers to mentoring, teaching and developing training programs for students from underserved communities entering health care professions, were honored this summer by The California Wellness
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Several recent articles in Minority Nurse have examined how the emerging field of health care genetics and genomics has begun to revolutionize the way researchers and clinicians are working to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes. Being able
Landmark Human Genomics Study Seeks Genetic Causes of Diabetes Read More »
A medication traditionally associated with the treatment of cancer and AIDS has emerged as a surprise weapon in the fight against sickle-cell anemia, the painful and often fatal inherited blood disorder that occurs primarily in African Americans. A new research
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Imagine that someone in your family is hospitalized in critical condition. Now imagine being denied the right to confer with the doctors and nurses or even to see your loved one. Unthinkable? Yet in many parts of the country, it’s
Gay Advocacy Groups Campaign for Same-Sex Hospital Visitation Rights Read More »
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination–Persons with Limited-English Proficiency) requires any health care facility that receives federal funding to provide bilingual or interpreter services to patients who don’t speak English. Even in facilities where
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In the spring of 1953, 14 African-American students at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Ala., received their bachelor of science degrees in nursing–and took their place in history. Not only had these young women graduated from the first BSN program established
Nation’s First HBCU Baccalaureate Nursing Program Celebrates 50th Year Read More »
It all started with a conversation that took place in 1999 between the deans of two highly respected schools of nursing–one of them an Ivy League school, the other a historically black university. These two academic leaders shared a common,
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