Poor Neighborhoods Equate to Poor Health for Minority Males

Just a year ago, health care was the singular issue dominating the national policy debate. The fight over whether or not to create a public option to ensure that all Americans had access to health care, gave rise to the Tea Party movement which vehemently fought what they dubbed “socialized medicine”.  Yet, despite the packed [...]

Call For A “New Breed of Physician”

If the medical community is to keep up with the influx of millions of Americans into the healthcare system after President Obama’s healthcare overhaul is implemented, fundamental innovations in curricula and teachings must be made in healthcare education.
Graduates from minority medical schools are already more likely to work in underserved communities as reported recently by [...]

Low number of Minority Medical School Graduates Puts Underserved Communities at Risk

As the nation begins to put in place the procedures for implementing the recently passed health care overhaul legislation, as recent studies show, minority communities may once again be underserved.
Although collectively, the Latino, American Indian and Black populations in the US total about thirty percent, only 8.7 percent of doctors in 2007 were from these [...]

Hispanics Lack Access to Colon Cancer Screening

According to the journal Cancer, colorectal cancer screening tests such as colonoscopies are more difficult to find in areas of the U.S. with large Hispanic populations.
A group led by Dr. Jennifer Haas of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston analyzed statistics on colorectal screening taken from a national health survey, [...]

Minorities Suffer from Alzheimer’s Disease at Higher Rates

According to a report released by the Alzheimer’s Association on Tuesday, minorities have a higher risk of developing degenerative mental diseases like Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.  Blacks are about two times as likely to develop the diseases as non-Blacks, and Hispanics are about 1.5 times as likely to develop [...]