Genetics Blamed for School Transfer
California Boy, Ordered To Transfer Schools For Carrying Cystic Fibrosis Gene Colman Chadam, an 11-year-old California boy, has been ordered to transfer from his current school to another one miles...
View ArticleWhere’s the Diversity?
Diversifying the allied health care workforce is vital in providing quality health care for all Americans What do Martha Stewart house paint and the allied health workforce have in common? Give up?...
View ArticleRace-based Lawsuit
Lawsuit: Race-based request sidelined Michigan nurse By Ben Brumfield , CNN updated 1:35 PM EST, Sat February 16, 2013 CNN.com (CNN) – A nurse is suing a hospital, claiming it agreed to man’s request...
View ArticleMinority Kids and Healthcare
Minority Kids Less Likely to Be Diagnosed, Treated for ADHD: Study Finding points to possible disparities in care Minority children are significantly less likely than their white peers to be diagnosed...
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Protecting Your DNA
Would you post your DNA on Facebook? Thousands of Americans could be giving away family secrets We are all Henrietta Lacks. Or, according to privacy experts, we soon could be. Americans are giving...
View ArticleRace and Medicine
Associations of Candidate Genes to Age-Related Macular Degeneration Among Racial/Ethnic Groups in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Am J Ophthalmol 2013 Aug 12;[EPub Ahead of Print], R Klein,...
View ArticleMedical Monday
DNA: The Basics We each have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Each chromosome holds packages of DNA, which contains genes passed down from your parents and holds potential keys to everything from your hair...
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Likelihood of Finding an Optimal Donor for a Stem-Cell Graft Varies by Ethnicity Both registries of hematopoietic stem-cell donors and banked units of umbilical cord blood are currently sufficient to...
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Medical Monday
Medical Monday – July 18, 2016 Medical Monday is a service of Project RACE for the multiracial community. We seek, gather, and list health articles of interest to interracial families and people of all...
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