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Harris County hopes blacks will seek help for Alzheimer's E-mail
Monday, 15 October 2007
 Alzheimer's disease has become a silent epidemic in the black community, robbing elders of their memories and taking an exhaustive toll on the families left to care for them. Increasingly, medical studies suggest that Alzheimer's occurs among blacks at a much higher rate than among whites — from 14 percent to 100 percent higher.  Click to continue at Chron.com
 
Whites take supplemental breast cancer therapy more often than blacks E-mail
Tuesday, 09 October 2007
A new study finds that white women more frequently take more of the life-prolonging supplemental therapies used to treat breast cancer than African-American women.
 
Hospice care's comforts ease pain - Push is on to make minorities less hesitant E-mail
Monday, 08 October 2007
More Americans than ever before choose hospice care when faced with terminal illness, but it's an option more often bypassed by African Americans and other minority groups...  Click to continue at freep.com
 
Black ministers to tackle issue of HIV/AIDS E-mail
Monday, 08 October 2007
 In what organizers call a historic gathering of African-American clergy, dozens of ministers from across the USA will gather here today with medical professionals and lawmakers to map a plan to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic sweeping the black community.  Click to continue at USAToday.com
 
Facing Breast Cancer with FEAR (Fierce Empowerment to Act not React) E-mail
Friday, 05 October 2007
As you engage in this year's October-fest of Pink Teas, Sunday Brunches, and Walks for the Cause, take a moment and pause for the #1 cause—YOU! Before you start tying those pink ribbons and slipping on your pink fall fashions in support of finding a cure, think about the lives you hope to help save—including yours! Shift your focus to YOU!   Click to continue at JourneyToWellness.com
 
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