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Back when he was a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy in the first year of his presidency. According to his campaign Web site, this initiative would, among other things,
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Pre-nursing student Eareaina Smith (center) chats with fellow students Aries Davis (left) and Nichole Selders before a Future Nurse Professionals seminar in March 2004. (Photo by Mary Jane Murawka) It’s a good support system, beams Eareaina Smith, a pre-nursing student
The nation cannot afford to ignore the obesity crisis and its [health] consequences–especially among Hispanics, a fast-growing population that has a prevalence of being obese. Cheap fast food, a lack of safe areas to exercise in their neighborhoods and fatty
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A Navajo Nation project to develop a Navajo Ethnomedical Encyclopedia. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium research projects focusing on issues such as autoimmune liver disease and smoking prevention. A training program to prepare Native American students, faculty and health professionals
Native American Health Research Programs Receive $6 Million in Grants Read More »
Creating Partnership for a Preferred Future was the theme of the Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA)’s 26th Annual National Convention, held last summer in Kansas City. The event drew about 150 nursing professionals from as far away as Hawaii
The federal Administration on Aging (AoA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recently awarded some $30 million in grants to support community programs and services designed to help American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribal elders
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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 »
