MyBlack^® Health

• African-Americans, Hispanics Have Increased Risk of Alzheimer’s
• Local African American Churches Rally Against AIDS
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Improves Pregnancy Outcomes
• Council of Black Nurses prepares for annual health fair
• Hopkins School of Medicine wins $9.7M to study health among blacks
• Nearly Half of Black Women Have Herpes
• THE 3RD ANNUAL AFRICA BREAST CANCER CONFERENCE
• Obama announces effort to crack down on Medicare and Medicaid fraud
• Survey: Blacks' sleep patterns significantly different from other ethnic groups
• Jamie Foxx, Ludacris team with CDC on black targeted effort against HIV
• Lifeblood Seeking Black Blood Donors
• National Urban League Supports Affordable Health Care as Today’s Civil Rights Issue
• Extreme Sleep Duration Linked to Increased Abdominal Fat in Minority Young Adults
• Blacks, Hispanics With Heart Failure Less Likely to Use Hospice
• Obama Wields Analysis of Insurers in Health Battle
• Drinking Alcohol Raises Prostate Cancer Risk in African Americans
• Healthcare gap persists for minority women
• 90 Percent of African American Children Deficient in Vitamin D
• Young, black and HIV+
• Burden of AIDS hits Zimbabwe's women hardest
• D.C. Is First City To Distribute Female Condoms
• Polio shot campaign planned in Africa
• Minority Doctors Needed to Help Bridge Health Care Gap Between US Minorities and Non-Hispanic Whites
• Public Health aims to help blacks have healthy babies
• African-American Greek Tradition of ‘Stepping’ to Raise Awareness for Organ and Tissue Donation
• Vitamin D, Adiposity, and Calcified Atherosclerotic Plaque in African-Americans
• Africa united in fight against polio outbreak
• Cord Blood Stem Cells Help Meet Minority Transplant Needs
• In Final Push, Obama Urges ‘Up-or-Down’ Vote on Health
• Row as anti-abortionists target African Americans with US racist history
• U.S. Has Racial Gap in Stroke Rate
• ASGE and Actor Hill Harper Raise Awareness About Colon Cancer Screening Among African-Americans
• Poll Reveals Sleep Differences among Ethnic Groups
• UAB’s Girkin to Brief Congress on African-Americans and Glaucoma
• HIV/AIDS: How sub-Saharan Africa can win the battle
• Abortion is Devastating the African American Community, Is Anyone Noticing?
• President's doc: 'excellent' health, cut the cholesterol
• Aids Fight in Africa
• Obesity odds greater for minority kids
• Eating Disorders on the Rise Among Black Women
• Puerto Rico declares dengue fever epidemic
• UAB Study Shows African-Americans Have Highest Stroke Rate, Southerners More Likely to Die
• Race Gap in Treatment of Heart Condition
• HIV Prevention Class for African American Men
• Blacks disproportionately affected by heart disease
• Study: Blacks Drink Less, But More Likely to Use Illicit Drugs
• 'Black Children an Endangered Species'? Provocative Pro-Life Billboard
• Obama exhorts lawmakers to fix health care system
• 'Black People Don't Have Eating Disorders'
• Tobacco Company Marketing To African Americans
• Michelle Obama: Let’s Move On Childhood Obesity
• Black Men Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer More
• Health of Blacks is on the line
• Shortage of Black Doctors Rooted in Social, Economic Ills
• Nebraska uninsured rates highest among minorities
• When Depression Strikes the (Black) Superwoman
• There’s help for African Americans who want to quit tobacco
• Americans Ignoring Serious Hypertension Problem, Experts Warn
• African Americans' Attitudes About Lung Cancer Interfere With Prevention and Treatment
• African Americans at greater risk for heart disease
• Black women at increased risk for weakened heart muscle at childbirth
• Genetic Mutation Linked to Prostate Cancer in Blacks
• Information Gap Could Delay Lung Cancer Therapy in Blacks
• Obama Unveils His Own Health Care Reform Plan
• HIV Poses a Community Risk for Blacks
• Health Executive to Lead N.A.A.C.P.
• Sororities effort spotlights need for more HIV testing in the black community
• Circumcision ring cuts AIDS risk in Africa
• Surgeon General Launches Mental Health Campaign for African-American Community at Howard University
• Seminar to discuss diabetes crisis among African-Americans
• Ethnic Seniors Grapple with Depression--Alone
• Scientists Decode Genomes of Five Africans, Including Archbishop Tutu
• Gillibrand Backs African American HIV/AIDS Bill
• Community helps improve African-American health
• Health-Care Injustice
• Suicide third leading cause of death among black male youth
• Racial Disparities Seen in New York Surgical Patients
• African-American cancer deaths decrease, but remain highest in U.S.
• More bad news about racial disparities in healthcare
• New cases of HIV strike African-Americans more often
• Racial gaps exist in women’s heart-health awareness
• Breast Cancer Stats Differ Racially Despite Similar Mammogram Rates
• African-Americans at Greater Risk for H1N1
• Obama Administration Announces $1 Billion In Funding For Modernization Of Health Sector With IT Jobs
• Blacks in Nursing Homes Vaccinated Less Than Whites
• MS progresses more rapidly in blacks
• Perinatal HIV Infection Highest Among Blacks
• Why blacks are at higher risk of hypertension
• Black Babies, Boys Less Likely to Be Adopted
• African-American Organ and Tissue Donors Changing History
• Racial Differences Found in RA Radiographic Features
• Black Liver Cancer Patients Face Worst Odds
• Study: Black-white health gap widens in Chicago
• African-American women leaders urge Obama to target Black women in National AIDS Strategy
• Health Reform: Race And Representation.
• Cancer Survival Disparities for Most Minority Populations Increase as Cancers Become More Treatable
• STD/HIV-Preventive Behavioral Interventions Effective for African American Teen Girls
• Black clergy to sound AIDS alarm at meeting
• For Black Women, Breast Cancer Strikes Younger
• Fewer African-Americans Getting H1N1 Vaccine
• African-Americans and Abortion: Navigating the Mine-Field of the Black Woman's Womb
• Civil rights groups push to cut African-American HIV rates
• USC report: African-Americans more likely to get cervical cancer
• H1N1 virus more often fatal to African Americans and Hispanics
• Surgeon General says the nation needs more minority doctors
• Racial Disparities in Colon Cancer Mortality Unexplained
• Breast Cancer in African American women
• UA nursing professor to spend $100,000 studying AIDS stigma among black rural men
• Stillbirth Risk Higher for Black Women
• American Diabetes Association Convenes 3rd Annual Disparities Conference
• African-American women lose weight, gain hope in nutrition class
• Ethnic Pride May Boost African-American Teens' Mental Health
• Predictors of new screening for African American men participating in a prostate cancer educational program
• African-American men at higher risk of false positives in prostate testing
• African-Americans with colorectal cancer have poorer outcomes, lower survival rates
• More black women are breast-feeding, but less than other moms
• African-Americans at Greater Risk of Lung Cancer
• Star Jones Hosts New BET Special On Obesity Amongst African-Americans
• L.A. County's free H1N1 vaccine clinics have vaccinated few blacks, public health officials say
• NBA great Abdul-Jabbar diagnosed with cancer
• Physician Bias Might Keep Life-saving Transplants From Black And Hispanic Patients
• Florida Alliance to address concerns of cancer in black men
• Health Reform Passes a Big Test, With Obama’s Aid
• Marijuana Arrests Are Up, Especially Among Blacks
• In Indiana, blacks continue to be at higher risk for HIV
• Diabetes: a serious, mostly preventable epidemic in the black community
• Bipartisan Support Grows for Addressing Nation’s Hepatitis Scourge
• Health officials urge blacks to be tested for AIDS
• African American women prone to stress
• NAACP Supports Federal Funding for Syringe Exchange Programs to Help Combat Spread Of HIV / AIDS
• Does race, income predict prostate cancer outcome?
• Blacks not lining up for recommended H1N1 shots
• NAACP leaders urge health care reform approval
• Nearly 40 Percent of African-Americans With Diabetes Delay Foot Care Due to Lack of Coverage
• Celebrities Join Dr. Bill Releford’s Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program in Los Angeles
• Older Blacks More Wary Of Flu Shots
• Race is Strong Predictor for Restless Legs Syndrome
• African Americans Fare Worse After Undergoing Liver Transplantation Due to Hepatitis C
• CABVI Reaches Out To African-Americans With Vision Loss
• Meharry Nabs Largest NIH Grant in School History
• Wis. Black farmer promotes ‘good-food revolution’
• Phosphate Levels Higher in African-American CKD Patients
• Low vitamin D linked to most African American kidney disease
• America's Minority Health Network Completes 100th Installation
• Health Services Determinants of the Duration of Untreated Psychosis Among African-American First-Episode Patients
• Black AIDS Institute Receives Long-Term Funding from CDC for African American HIV University (AAHU)
• Maternal Ethnicity and Weight Can Affect Pain and Labor
• Regina Benjamin Confirmed as Surgeon General
• Obama Lifts Ban on US Entry for Those with HIV
• Honoring Black Health Collaborators
• Myth: HIV/AIDS Rate Among Black Women Traced To 'Down Low' Black Men
• Alzheimer's in the Black Community
• Stimulus Boosts Research on Minority Elders
• The Advertising Council, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and AdoptUsKids Launch Campaign to Encourage the Adoption of African American Children in Foster Care
• African-American women fight cancer
• Partners In Weight Loss Success May Help African-Americans Shed More Pounds
• African Americans face higher risk of colorectal cancer
• Obama declares swine flu national emergency
• Abortion Kills More Black Americans Than the Seven Leading Causes of Death Combined, Says CDC Data
• Obesity among black children targeted by Wayne State University
• Menthol Cigarettes Put Blacks at Higher Risk for Disease
• The National Black Caucus of State Legislators Supports the Veterans` Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act
• St. Louis sickle cell researcher Dr. DeBaun joins elite national policy group
• Black women must recognize breast cancer risk
• Research shows more breast cancer deaths in African American women
• BLACK BARBERSHOP HEALTH OUTREACH PROGRAM Launches Los Angeles Initiative To Address Declining Health of African American Men
• Why Skin Color May Affect Nicotine Dependence
• Study Says Minorities Suffer More From Psoriasis
• Cigna to study African Americans' high blood pressure treatment options
• Survey: Many think racial disparities genetic
• Blind association targets local blacks
• The Association of Black Cardiologists
• Income and Race Linked to Breast Cancer Survival
• Farrakhan tells personal story of prostate cancer
• Black Women’s Health Study reveals ‘prudent’ diet linked to lower breast cancer risk for normal-sized women
• SC Urban League educating about health, exercise
• Race, Insurance May Affect Testing of Kids in ER
• UAB Leads National Study of Rheumatoid Arthritis in African-Americans
• Despite Risk, Older African Americans More Likely Than Others To Avoid Flu Vaccine
• Congressional Letter Highlights Increased Racial Health Disparities and Barriers to Cancer Care in Proposed CMS Policy
• Michelle Obama Knows Healthy Eating Isn't Just About Healthy Eating
• Black men need to wake up to the facts on our women's health
• African-American and Hispanic retirees and baby boomers about to retire hit hard by recession
• Real Health Care Reform Could Have Saved 880,000 Lives
• Healthy baby campaign starts Wednesday, targets blacks
• Black women put obesity on notice
• Blacks more critical of health care on LI
• Health Care Bill Passes. No Public Option. Yet?
• Black Community May Face More Serious Cases of H1N1
• Study Examines Black Breast Cancer Survivors
• African-Americans may not respond to new lung cancer drugs
• For black women, early cancer detection is even more crucial
• HMO Structures May Drive Blacks to Emergency Rooms
• Conquering obesity is crucial for black survival
• Eating disorders and African Americans
• NHRA: Peggy Llewellyn Talks Breast Cancer Awareness Among Blacks And Latinas
• Early Mammograms Can Help Improve Breast Cancer Survival Rate For Black Women
• A Fatal Cultural Gap: Depression Among Minorities
• Swine flu's bigger impact on blacks and Hispanics is not being addressed
• Report shows less access to treatment in drug court for blacks
• Report indicates some Black men don't know their status
• More black women getting back to hair care basics
• The Color of Health Care Reform
• Insured African-Americans more likely to use emergency room than other insured groups
• Prince Hall Shriners on mission to find a cure for diabetes
• Health ills: Shall we overcome?
• HIV Rates Among Black Americans Remain Disproportionately High
• Blacks, Hispanics Join Forces to Demand Health Reform
• Prostate cancer screenings save Black men's lives
• Diagnostic Patterns in Latino, African American, and European American Psychiatric Patients
• Diet Rich in Vegetables Reduces Breast Cancer Risk in African American Women
• Black People More Affected by Pancreatic Cancer than Whites
• Racial Segregation A Strong Factor In Learning Disparities, Study Finds
• Cesarean Deliveries for First Time Moms Highest Among African Americans
• A Doctor’s Word -- Black Americans Can Escape the Smoking Trap
• US Breast Cancer Deaths Falling But Not For African Americans
• New Hope For AIDS Vaccine
• Why Do African Americans Have More Type 2 Diabetes?
• Outside spotlight, minorities struggle with obesity
• Returning black vets face mental health obstacles
• Blacks, Native Americans more likely to go to foster care
• Researchers struggle to understand breast cancer's racial gap
• Alzheimer's has disproportionate impact on African Americans
• Racial Disparities In Diabetes Prevalence Linked To Living Conditions
• Religion Impacts Decision On Prostate Cancer Screening In African-American Men
• The "Jewels in Our Genes" Study: Investigating Why Black Women are at Increased Risk of Early Breast Cancer
• Doctors often register unconscious bias against blacks, study finds
• Racism abundant in health care debate
• New Drug Will Fight Sleeping Sickness In Africa
• Antiabortion black ministers to endorse Obama's healthcare plan
• Black Leaders Launch Grassroots Campaign for Health Care
• Black Infant Health group carrying on
• Vaccine Shows Promise in HIV Prevention
• Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and ASGE Host Issue Forum on African-Americans and Colorectal Cancer
• Abortion: The African-American experience
• Minorities Less Likely to Have Blood Pressure Under Control
• Minorities have steeper end-of-life costs
• Gene Linked To Glaucoma In Blacks
• Indianapolis to Host 16th Annual African American Mental Health Conference
• Blacks face higher risk of kidney disease
• Hitting Talk Shows, Obama Defends Health Care Agenda
• Sending Up Prayers to Our Black Boys as They Go Back to School
• Health Seminar Held for African American and Latina Women
• U.K. Minorities More Likely to Fault Health Care Quality
• Hospitalized Black Patients Have Low Survival Rate Following Cardiac Arrest
• Blacks get poorer cardiac care
• New Orleans Blacks Don't Live As Long As North Koreans
• Black Infant Mortality Points to Moms' Crying Need
• Estrogen May Explain the Higher PCa Risk in Blacks
• Prostate Cancer Guide for African-American Men and Their Families Now Available
• Sickle cell fight well worth the walk
• The CT Department of Public Health marks September with Sickle Cell education campaign
• Study Finds Racial Inequalities Cost U.S. Health System Over $50 Billion a Year
• New Stimulus Funds will make Black & Latino Communities Healthier
• African Americans at Significantly Higher Risk of DVT or Blood Clots
• Blacks Fare Worse After Cardiac Arrest
• African Americans at Higher Risk for Heart Disease
• Lower Cardiac Arrest Survival Rate for African Americans
• The pressure is on for African Americans with high blood pressure
• Increase in the African American population appears to be associated with a decrease in the number of colorectal cancer specialists
• The role of racism in health care debate
• 10 Reasons African Americans Should March on Washington About Health Care
• Patient care varies between races
• Ethnic Leaders Find Hope in Health Care Plan
• African-Americans Continue to Struggle with Health Issues
• African Americans Could Use Affordable Health Care Options
• Exercise is good for heart health, but race and gender factor in
• Joint Center to Unveil Health Reform Study Providing Answers: What Is the Cost of Not Addressing Racial Health Disparities?
• Race Affects Severity Of Lupus Disease
• A Look At Our Indifference to Black Women’s Mental Health
• African American Children at Risk for Undetected Vision Problems
• Doctor-Patient Talk May Help Blacks With Hypertension
• Blacks Die at Highest Rates in U.S.
• For Maia Campbell and others, mental health is no laughing matter
• Group of black leaders call for health reform
• Socio-cultural, Genetic Data Work Together To Reveal Health Disparities
• Hepatits C Increasing among Blacks
• Civil Rights and Health Reform
• Admixture Mapping of Obesity-related Traits in African Americans: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study
• Race Shown to Affect Severity of Lupus Disease
• Hip-hop doc has rhymes with healthy messages to kids
• Strokes in Young Blacks Drain South Carolina's Pocket
• Panel should probe black health concerns
• Cutting health risks for African Americans
• HIV-AIDS rate is increasing across Florida
• For racial care divide, building trust may be key
• CDC, local health officials educating Black community on swine flu
• For too many blacks, end-of-life care is taboo
• African Americans, Latinos encouraged to donate blood
• High Blood Pressure Troubles Especially Target African-Americans
• Minorities and Health Care: What's the Real Story?
• Prohibiting home smoking is less common among African-Americans
• Organ Donors Scarce in the African American Community
• Race Disparity in Deadly Cancer Remains a Mystery
• Pancreatic Cancer Affects Blacks At Higher Rates
• Blacks living longer and narrowing life expectancy gap with whites
• Black hypertension patients experience poor communication with doctors than white patients
• Race not a factor in liver transplantation
• Africa—Yes, Africa—Has an Obesity Problem
• Cuts threaten to increase health gaps
• Racial Differences in Liver Transplant Linked to Underlying Disease
• Black infant mortality draws more scrutiny
• Swine flu sends more blacks, Hispanics to hospital
• Minorities get more unnecessary procedures
• Hub one of six sites in black male HIV study
• AIDS in the U.S.A.
• Minorities have poorer results, higher rates of inappropriate surgery to prevent stroke
• Hospital Factors Affect Cancer Outcome in African-Americans
• New Drug Shows Promise in Black Diabetics
• White anger fueling health care debate
• Why Racial Profiling Persists in Medical Research
• African-Americans and the Health Reform Bill
• Chicago breast-cancer groups reach out to African-American women
• Facts On African-Americans and Prostate Cancer
• African-American Mental Health Training And Forum
• Need commission to address Black health care needs
• Race plays proxy role in health care debate
• Urban farming may save the hip-hop generation
• The Color of Health Care
• What Would MLK Say About Health Care?
• Low-Income Women and Minorities Are Being Left In Pain
• Disparities in cancer care reflect hospital resources, U-M study finds
• Addressing Mental Health Disparities Among African-Americans
• Cases of swine flu higher among city blacks, Hispanics
• Mortality Rates Higher in African-American Cancer Patients Infected with HPV
• Experts: Health reform anger stems from racism, partisanship
• Signs Of Racism Occur In The Midst Of Health Care Reform Debate
• Sebelius on swine flu: 'We're preparing for the worst'
• Abortion is targeted at blacks
• Jackson community protests removal of Black Doctors
• Leading African American Groups Call On Health Insurers to Dismiss Restrictive Practices
• Mo'Nique takes the lead on obesity as a health issue
• BET Conference aims to help African-American women improve their health
• Eliminating health disparities: What works?
• Black race as a predictor of poor health outcomes among a national cohort of HIV/AIDS patients admitted to US hospitals: a cohort study
• David Scott on a racial undertone in the debate over health care reform
• Stroke fundraiser and concert by Kirk Franklin
• Pessimism, Cynicism Can Hurt Your Heart
• Fighting mental illness taboo among Blacks
• Palin: Obama’s health plan is ‘downright evil’
• Pilot project to help blacks, Latinos manage diabetes
• Black Folk Must Advocate For Health Care Reform
• Blacks' mistrust of medical system limits organ donations
• Black women can take steps against lupus
• Health Care Reform: A Minority Report
• Disbelief Diminishes African American Adult Vaccination Rates
• Findings May Explain Gap in Cancer Survival
• Prince George’s focuses on preterm birth rates
• Prince George’s focuses on preterm birth rates
• NEW CDC STUDY RESULTS ARE IN: African Americans Are the Nation’s Most Obese
• Health Care Disparity In WV
• Keying in on black risk factors
• Oropharyngeal Cancer Survival Linked to Virus Infection
• Healthcare reform important to blacks
• National Medical Association chief to focus on health-care disparities
• HIV/AIDS still a scourge for African-Americans
• Survival disparities among African American women with invasive bladder cancer in Florida - Abstract
• Does your doctor judge you based on your color?
• Blacks, Hispanics Biggest Losers if Health Care Reform Flops
• Obama on health reform: ‘This is not a game’
• Critics Slam Overweight Surgeon General Pick, Regina Benjamin
• Researchers Uncover Genetic Variants Linked To Blood Pressure In African-Americans
• Edwards to be Installed as National Medical Association President
• Race gap in African-American cancer deaths may be partly biological
• HHS: Reducing disparities should be part of health reform
• Study: Minorities would benefit from health care reform
• Doctors seek causes of prostate cancer in black men
• Black Americans most obese group
• Why health care reform can save black lives
• HBCU Alum named Surgeon General
• Top Health Concerns for African-Americans
• African American Hair Structure
• WHAT ARE THE BARRIERS THAT PREVENT AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM OBTAINING BETTER HEALTH?
• African American Teen Shootings
• Diabetes Update
• Osteoporosis: A Threat for African American Women Too
• Black Women and Breast Cancer
• Widely Used Body Fat Measurements Overestimate Fatness In African-Americans, Study Finds
• National Medical Association Supports Public Insurance Option
• Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in TRICARE
• Health Decision-Making Preferences Among African American Men Recruited From Urban Barbershops
• Race/Ethnicity, Risk Perception, and Receipt of Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing
• The Racist History of the War on Drugs
• African American Women Tend to Refuse Late Stage Breast Cancer Treatment
• Breastfeeding-Starting out Right
• What Every Sister Should Know About Breastfeeding!
• Prison may explain black health disparity
• The state of Black health : A dual and unequal system
• African-American and Hispanic men at risk for BPH
• Survey reveals breast cancer disparities in Black Women
• Obesity rates among adults in U.S. rises
• Gross inequality in access to healthy food
• Social Network Sites Encouraged to Push HIV Testing
• Breaking Down Health Care Reform
• On Health Care, Obama Tries to Seize the Moment
• African couples urged to get HIV 'love test'
• 1 Million Strong: 50 Million Pound Challenge Reaches Milestone
• Lack of Sleep Can Raise Blood Pressure Over TimeLack of Sleep Can Raise Blood Pressure Over Time
• Depression May Lead to More Preemies Among Blacks
• African-American Teachers View Cafeteria as Another Classroom
• Social support can be a lifeline during health crisis
• Disparities seen in access to surgical care for minorities in segregated areas, study finds
• How African American Men Decide Whether Or Not To Get Prostate Cancer Screening
• Inequalities in women's health care in Illinois
• Groups Preventing SIDS In African-American Babies
• CDC: Young African-American Men Get Most HIV
• Racial disparities seen in U.S. breast cancer care
• Blacks With Lung Disease Face Increased Cancer Risk
• 8,000 annual deaths attributed to blood pressure race gap