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Different Attitudes Toward Breastfeeding Linked to Race
Why are black women more likely to feed their infants formula than mothers of other races? That's what a recent study from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center hopes to determine.
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Minority Health for $200, Alex!
Are you a nursing educator who's looking for an interactive, engaging way to introduce your students to the issue of minority health disparities? Try the "virtual game show" So You Think You Know Minority Health?
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New Year, New Resources
What better way to start 2010 than by resolving to stock your nursing toolbox with a new supply of resources for improving the health of culturally diverse patients and communities
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Preventing Premature Birth Disparities--A Reader Responds
In Fall 2009, we published "Preventing Premature Birth Disparities," an article examining the growing crisis of high preterm birth rates in women of color...
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Men in Nursing School--Setting the Record Straight
In Winter 2010 we interviewed six gender minority nursing students and one recent graduate about whether or not they have encountered any gender bias from female instructors and classmates...
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A Promotion on Capitol Hill
A unanimous vote in the U.S. Senate made it official: Lillian Sparks is the new Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans, a wing of the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Make an EMPaCT
Enabling Minority Participation in Clinical Trials, or EMPaCT, is the newest initiative to come out of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
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A Boost for Minority Nursing Professors
Find certified minority nurse educators in a flash using the Minority Nurse Educator database, a free service provided by the School of Nursing at Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey.
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CBC Sounds off on Passage of Health Reform
You certainly can't talk about the future of minority health without discussing the implications of this historic legislation: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Nursing Legend Dr. M. Elizabeth Carnegie Passes Away
MN is saddened to report that M. Elizabeth Carnegie, DPA, RN, FAAN, a pioneering educator, author and unceasing champion of racial equality in nursing, passed away on February 20 at the age of 91.
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Who Really Was the First American Indian RN?
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Minority Men’s Health Disparities Reaching Crisis Proportions
When it comes to health, American men who are non-white and poor are suffering from such a disproportionate burden of serious health problems compared to white males that some public health leaders believe the situa-tion has become a national crisis that will continue to worsen unless urgent interventions are made.
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Worth 1,000 Words
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Comic Strip Helps Raise Diabetes Awareness in the Hispanic Community
To help spread the word about this serious health threat, Baldo co-creators Hector Cantú and Carlos Castellanos partnered with the National Alliance for Hispanic Health
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What Is President Obama Doing to Improve Indian Health Care? (And Is It Enough?)
As of September 2009, three-quarters of the way through President Obama's first year in office, how many of his promises to First Americans are actually being kept?
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VITAS Honors National Black Nurses Association for Black History Month
What better way for a national health care organization to commemorate Black History Month than by honoring the historical contributions of African American nurses?
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Participate in eMAPA Research Study
Eun-Ok Im, PhD, MPH, RN, CNS, FAAN, School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, and her colleagues are conducting a study to explore ethnic differences in midlife women's attitudes toward physical activity.
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Editor's Notebook
Are We Scapegoating Foreign-Educated Nurses?
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New Co-Pay Assistance Program Helps Fight Blood Cancer Disparities
Because blood cancer medicines are expensive, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has launched a new program to help myeloma patients who are having trouble affording their prescriptions
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Paperwork
Reviews of Transforming Nursing Education: The Culturally Inclusive Environment; Susan Dandridge Bosher, PhD, MA, and Margaret Dexheimer Pharris, PhD, RN, MPH, FAAN (Editors) and Real Nurses and Others: Racism in Nursing by Tania Das Gupta, PhD
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Fighting Tobacco Disparities in the Gay Community
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons are 50% to 200% more likely to smoke than the rest of the population, according to the National LGBT Tobacco Control Network.
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Score Another Point for Diuretics as Most Effective Hypertension Treatment
In 2002, the landmark Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT), the largest and most racially/ethnically diverse clinical study to date...
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Obama Economic Stimulus Program Includes Minority Health Provisions
During all the recent discussion and debate over President Barack Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus package, we’re heard plenty of talk about things like shovel-ready projects, rebuilding crumbling infrastructure and green energy jobs. But what about nurse-ready projects?
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When It Comes to Recruiting Black Men into Nursing, She Wrote the Book
Once upon a time there was a nurse who felt bad because not enough African American men wanted to be nurses. So she decided to do something about it. She wrote a children’s book called My Hero, My Dad The Nurse.
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Anniversary Achievers
What better way to celebrate 10 years of the Minority Nurse Magazine Scholarship Program than to congratulate our 10th Annual Scholarship winners!
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