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Gender, Ethnicity Sway Choices for End-of-Life Care
Tuesday, January 31, 2006—When it comes to end-of-life care, researchers have known for some time that ethnic groups have different perspectives on how they'd wish to be treated.

High blood pressure a problem for black Hispanics
Friday, January 27, 2006—There appears to be a racial disparity in rates of high blood pressure among Hispanic Americans, with Hispanic blacks facing a greater risk than Hispanic whites, a new study suggests.

Large Percentage of African Americans and Diabetics Not Using Aspirin to Ward Off Heart Disease
Tuesday, January 24, 2006—According to lead author, Anne B. Newman, M.D., M.P.H., professor of epidemiology and medicine, GSPH, aspirin therapy should be better targeted to high-risk individuals.

Aspirin's Heart Benefits Varies by Sex - Study
Monday, January 23, 2006—The benefits of taking aspirin regularly differs between men and women, reducing the risk of heart attacks in men while reducing the risk of strokes in women, researchers said on Tuesday.

NAACP Launches Effort to Increase African American Graduation and College Readiness Rates
Friday, January 20, 2006—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) received a $200,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Black, White Teens Show Differences in Nicotine Metabolism
Friday, January 20, 2006—New research by scientists with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, suggests that some of the racial and ethnic differences underlying how adults’ bodies metabolize nicotine also are at work during adolescence.

Heart transplants don't last as long in black kids
Monday, January 16, 2006—Transplanted hearts survive a significantly shorter time in black children than in other racial groups, according to a review of the records of 4227 pediatric heart transplant recipients, 717 (17 percent) of whom were black.

Race, Gender Affect Fate of Low Birth Weight Babies
Friday, January 6, 2006—Race and gender are significant predictors of survival among extremely low birth weight infants, a new study finds.

Stillbirths More Common in Older and Black women
Wednesday, January 4, 2006—Women older than 35 years and Black women are more likely than other women to experience stillbirth, according to a report in the American Journal of Public Health.

Poorer Black Women Going without Pap Smears
Wednesday, January 4, 2006—Black women who live in poor neighborhoods are less likely to be screened for cervical cancer than women living in more affluent areas, researchers find.