The U.S. pharmaceutical industry has been in a five-year hiring frenzy. IMS Health, a leading source of market information for the pharmaceutical industry, forecasts that both pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies will continue to experience growth that outpaces that of the […]
Out at Work: Diversity in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries Read More »
According to the most recent U.S. Census, Hispanics are the nation’s largest and fastest-growing minority group, accounting for 13% of the total population. Moreover, that figure is expected to rise to more than 25% by 2050. Yet in many parts
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Women of color account for approximately one-third of all adult women in the U.S. Yet compared to women who are members of the white majority, minority women continue to bear a disproportionate burden of morbidity and mortality from a wide
Women of Color Face Wide Range of Unequal Health Outcomes Read More »
From the time she was a child, Bettie Coles, RN, dreamed of becoming a nurse. Her older brother suffered from severe asthma attacks and Coles accompanied her family on frequent treks to the emergency room. I remember my brother
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What should a hospital do when a bigoted patient insists that no people of color be involved in his or her care? Do you stand firmly by your anti-discrimination policy and ignore the racist request? Or is it better to
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When it comes to health, American men who are non-white and poor are suffering from such a disproportionate burden of serious health problems compared to white males that some public health leaders believe the situa-tion has become a national crisis
Minority Men’s Health Disparities Reaching Crisis Proportions Read More »
At Rowan Regional Medical Center, a private, not-for-profit acute care hospital in Salisbury, N.C., only 4.6% of the RN staff are men and even fewer (2%) are African-American or Hispanic. It’s a situation that mirrors the demographic imbalance of the
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Because minority populations in the United States continue to endure health disparities compared to Caucasians—such as higher risks of high blood pressure, diabetes and certain forms of cancer—two agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are offering
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According to U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, African Americans are twice as likely to suffer a stroke than whites, making them more susceptible to stroke than any other ethnic group. Satcher spoke out on this health disparity during a stroke-screening
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Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions among Native Americans, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA). Over 12% of all Indian populations in the United States suffer from type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes. The Pima Indians in Arizona have the highest rate
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