Your
unfiltered
news center.
®
The world you see depends upon the news you get.
®
Subscribe to Our Updates
Powered By:
BlackRadioNetwork.com
|
MinorityNewsService.net
|
MinorityNews.net
HOME
ARTS
CIVIL RIGHTS
FINANCIAL
HEALTH
LEGAL
POLITICS
CONTACT
RSS
April 18, 2024
ALTRA | SANEXEN wins the Water Sector Distinction Award from Réseau Environnement
•
Dover Announces Winners of the 2024 Scholarship Program
•
Aqua Virginia Earns State Excellence Award for 19th Consecutive Year
•
Publix honors associates for their community involvement
•
FOX News Digital Marks Twelve Consecutive Quarters Leading News Brands With Multiplatform Minutes
•
Benchmark Recognized by U.S. News & World Report with 62 "Best" Senior Living Community Excellence Awards
•
Argonne’s Decarbonization Scenario Model Analyzes Ambitious Pathways to Net-Zero Carbon Emissions
•
Introducing 100% True Non-Recourse Factoring for Small Trucking Companies
•
WIN SOURCE Sponsors #Women4ew Networking Event that Empowers Women at Embedded World Germany 2024
•
CF Industries and JERA Announce Joint Development Agreement to Develop Greenfield Low-Carbon Ammonia Production Capacity in the
•
HASI Extends and Upsizes Bank Facilities to $1.625 Billion, Further Strengthening Diversified Funding Platform
•
GreenShield workers ratify new contract that protects them from outsourcing and boosts job security"
•
ThinkHUGE Founders Transform Lives and Create New Opportunities through Private Investment
•
Empowering Sustainable Living: Earth Day Initiatives Feature Significant Price Drops
•
FIBRA Prologis Declares Quarterly Distribution
•
HNI Corporation Receives DOE Better Project Award
•
LIFT Academy and Tuskegee University Join Together to Launch First-ever Tuskegee University Flight School
•
FIBRA Prologis Announces First Quarter 2024 Earnings Results
•
Montrose Environmental Group Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Shares
•
Plume Clinic Announces Contracts with Payers, Lab Partners to Broaden Access to Gender Affirming Care for Trans Community in Ill
Search results for "doctors"
Page:
::
::
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Study: Doctors May 'Learn" Bias In Med School
September 06, 2011
New Johns Hopkins research shows that medical students -- just like the general American population -- may have unconscious if not overt preferences for white people, but this innate bias does not appear to translate into different or lesser health care of other races. The research findings, to be published tomorrow in the Journal ...
read more
Doctors Make Discovery In Blacks With Glaucoma
July 12, 2011
Measuring oxygen during eye surgery, investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered a reason that may explain why African-Americans have a higher risk of glaucoma than Caucasians. They found that oxygen levels are significantly higher in the eyes of African-Americans ...
read more
Report: Male Doctors Earning Double That Of Women Doctors
April 28, 2011
For all physicians, females earned a median of $160,000 while males earned a median of $225,000. ...
read more
Training Minority Doctors A Priority For Georgia
March 17, 2011
...
read more
CA Trying To Recruit, Retain Black Doctors
January 28, 2011
...
read more
Doctors Stress Need For Cholera Vax Stockpile
November 29, 2010
...
read more
Self-Identity Key to Doctors’ Work Choice
October 29, 2010
...
read more
Lack Of Black Doctors Traced Primarily To Pre-College Factors
February 19, 2010
...
read more
Report: Too Few Minority Doctors After
Decades Of Discrimination
January 28, 2010
“There is no doubt that much progress has been made in the past 100 years with regard to minorities’ representation in the medical profession,†said report co-author IIana Suez Mittman, Ph.D. “Unlike the turn of the twentieth century, currently there is heightened ...
read more
Surgeon General Benjamin: U.S. Needs More Minority Doctors
December 04, 2009
...
read more
Minority doctors challenge youth to follow
in their steps
October 19, 2009
...
read more
Heads Of Indian Health Service, Hispanic Doctors Speak Out On Reform
September 25, 2009
...
read more
Many Doctors Shown to Have Subconscious Racial Attitudes
August 21, 2009
A new U.S. study has found that doctors, like the majority of people who responded, prefer whites to blacks subconsciously, which potentially can affect their ...
read more
Small Businesses, Doctors Oppose Some Health Overhaul Proposals
July 28, 2009
...
read more
Doctors Shortage Threatens to Undermine Health Care Reform
July 09, 2009
...
read more
*VIDEO* Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on some of America's newest young black doctors
July 03, 2009
...
read more
Young Blacks Twice As Likely To Die On Dialysis
August 12, 2011
A new study may change the way doctors treat their dialysis patients. Past research suggested that black patients on dialysis survive longer than whites, but a new study finds that this does not hold true for young black patients. In fact, young blacks are twice as likely to die while on dialysis. ...
read more
Native American Docs Try to Reduce High Death Rates
August 11, 2011
The 40th annual AAIP (Association of American Indian Physicians) conference is being held in Portland, Oregon this week, as more than 200 Native American doctors focus on ways to reduce high death rates afflicting tribes across the country. The death rate for Native Americans from tuberculosis and alcoholism ...
read more
Policy Change Aims To Lessen Health Care Disparities
August 04, 2011
To help address serious racial and economic disparities in cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in the United States, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) today released a policy statement that outlines specific provisions of 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that have the potential to reduce these disparities. ASCO’s statement makes recommendations to ensure that such provisions ...
read more
Stigma Prevents HIV Testing By Black MDs
August 01, 2011
Social stigma is the largest barrier to routine HIV testing by African-American frontline care physicians, according to a new National Medical Association survey. Despite the belief by most physicians surveyed (93 percent) that HIV is either very serious or a crisis in the African-American community, findings suggested that ...
read more
THE NAACP HEADS TO LOS ANGELES
July 21, 2011
With the theme of "Affirming America's Promise," the NAACP-- the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization--- opens it 102nd annual convention in Los Angeles tomorrow. The four-day gathering is expected to generate an economic impact of $11.4 million citywide, with a total of nearly 13,000 hotel rooms expected to be booked for the occasion. ...
read more
Study Dispels Myths About Minorities Borrowing Meds
July 21, 2011
A study led by Temple University researchers revealed that despite warnings about borrowing medication prescribed to other people, past studies have demonstrated that many Americans say they have used someone else's medication at least once in a given year. In low income, urban populations, this rate was ...
read more
Neurologists Address Disparities In Stroke Care
July 14, 2011
Significant disparities in stroke treatment and prevention exist for racial and ethnic minorities, writes Dr. Salvador Cruz-Flores for Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Dr. Cruz-Flores adds, "Awareness, education and prevention are the keys to closing this health care gap." Cruz-Flores, ...
read more
Black Bone Marrow Registry Raises Awareness
July 05, 2011
A bone marrow transplant can be a cure for someone with sickle cell disease or other illnesses like leukemia and lymphoma. Most patients who need transplants do not have a match in their family and depend on the Be The Match Registry to find a match. But many African Americans and other minorities can’t find marrow donors ...
read more
Asian American Navigating The College Admissions Process
July 05, 2011
The existence of obstacles to Asian Americans gaining admission to elite universities stems from the perception that, as a group, they have performed relatively well in higher education. From 1976 to 2007, the percentage of Asian American college students increased from 1.8 to 6.7 percent ...
read more
Obese Latinos Lack Sound Dr Advice
July 01, 2011
A new study that appears in the July/August issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion shows that only half of obese Mexican-American adults receive diet and exercise advice from their physicians although obesity is on the rise for this group. “Among this obese population, not seeing ...
read more
Minority Mental Health On Tap For July
June 28, 2011
July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, and Allsup, a nationwide provider of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) representation, is raising awareness of the importance of treatment in improving mental health and accessing resources that support wellness. According to the National Alliance ...
read more
HIV/AIDS Worry Majority Of Blacks
June 22, 2011
The Kaiser Family Foundation today released its eighth large-scale national survey of Americans on HIV/AIDS. Kaiser is reporting black Americans, and particularly young blacks, express much higher levels of concern about HIV infection than whites. ...
read more
West Point Cadet Sues R&B Diva Over Alleged Beating
June 06, 2011
The lawsuit alleges the cadet, Richard King, was waiting at Bush Intercontinental Airport, when LaBelle allegedly ordered her bodyguards to attack him. ...
read more
Challenge Filed Against GA's "Show Me Your Papers" Law
June 02, 2011
“Georgia's law is fundamentally un-American: we are not a 'show me your papers' country nor one that believes in making certain people ‘untouchables.’ ...
read more
Page:
::
::
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
LIVE VIDEO EVERY SATURDAY
Rev. Al Sharpton
9 to 11 am EST
Rev. Jesse Jackson
10 to noon CST
LIVE BROADCASTS
Sounds Make the News ®
Atlanta -
WAOK-Urban
Berkley / San Francisco -
KPFA-Progressive
Chicago -
WVON-Urban
Los Angeles -
KJLH - Urban
New York -
WKDM-Mandarin Chinese
New York -
WADO-Spanish
New York -
WBAI - Progressive
Washington -
WOL-Urban