A new study revels that African-American men have more than 20 times the level of a protein (TIMP-1) that enables the spread of prostate cancer tumors than Caucasian men. At the recent American Society for Cell Biology meeting in San […]
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While one racial or ethnic group may look different than another, eat different foods and have different cultural histories, there is no significant genetic difference between races, according to scientists responsible for decoding the human genome. Last June, researchers from
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Both Hispanics from Caribbean countries and African Americans are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than Caucasians, according to a new study, Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease in African Americans, Caribbean Hispanics and Caucasians in Northern Manhattan, recently published in Neurology
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Poor eating habits and lack of exercise among African Americans increases their risk of developing cancer, obesity, hypertension, diabetes and heart disease, according to recent studies by the Public Health Institute (PHI) and the California Department of Health Services (CDHS).
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Because the number of Hispanics with access to the Internet continues to increase several times faster than for any other minority group, providing health care information online is quickly becoming an effective way to reach Spanish speaking health consumers. Gracias
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To intensify and expand its effort to assist tribal Head Start programs, the Indian Health Service (IHS) has named Orietta Cuellar, B.A., member of the Absentee-Shawnee tribe and a descendent of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans, as director of the
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The Indian Health Service (IHS) has announced an effort to protect the hearing of American Indians and Alaskan Natives (AI/ANs) by joining forces with the WISE EARS! health education campaign to prevent noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). WISE EARS! is a
Nearly half of all women over 65 use herbal therapies to prevent or treat health problems, but they rarely inform their health care providers, according to a new University of Florida study. Many of these women are also taking prescription
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Innovative posters and buttons designed to foster dialogue about domestic violence between victims and health care providers are now being distributed to clinics throughout California. The culturally sensitive materials are available in a variety of languages including English, Spanish, Chinese,
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A recent study on sexual transmitted disease (STD) trends in the United States, Tracking the Hidden Epidemics by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), examines the magnitude of STD epidemics by race and ethnicity. Its key finding: While
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