10 Search results for "epidemiologist"

Family insists something is amiss after Atlanta area epidemiologist vanishes
The American public despairs on a different level when victims are white. Whether confronting sexual harassment and assault, particularly of white women, or missing persons (remember “missing white woman syndrome”?), the need to turn our attention to the issues affecting people of color remains. To that end, Crime Stoppers Greater Atlanta recently publicized a $10,000 […]
Black conspiracy and skepticism persist because we believe the evidence of our experience
by Donnie Moreland There is a whispered binding between Black folks and the truth. Less truth, in that meta-ethical way we discern the spiritually evidential as Black folks, but truth telling. The expressions, negotiations and altercations with, and of, “facts.” How we tell the truth, digest it and confirm that truth as just that; gospel. […]
As measles outbreak grows in non-vaccinated population, Washington declares state of emergency
Washington state has declared a state of emergency as a measles outbreak spreads in two counties.
GA officials don’t suspect foul play after finding body of missing CDC employee Timothy Cunningham
The Cunningham family discerned that something was amiss in connection with the disappearance of their beloved Timothy Cunningham. Cunningham, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, was last heard from about two months ago. Officials recently confirmed his death. On Tuesday, two fisherman saw a body in the Chattahoochee River and called 911, police […]
U.S. spends more on healthcare, is still learning from Cuban experts how to curb infant mortality
Last fall, experts from the Cuban Ministry of Public Health mentored American medical experts in hopes of solving infant mortality issues in the United States. Kaiser Health News reported how the Cuban health care practitioners partnered with American practitioners to study reproductive and general health issues in Chicago’s Englewood community. While the island nation’s infant […]
Harvard Promotes Michelle Williams As First African-American Faculty Dean
Even though this Black History Month will go down in history as the boldest one in a lifetime, it is a shame that we are still seeing firsts in 2016. There’s also no coincidence that all of these Black “firsts” are being announced in February. Harvard University has made the esteemed epidemiologist Michelle Williams the […]
2 patients with Ebola-like symptoms admitted to hospitals in Chicago
A child who threw up on a plane and a man with nausea who landed in Chicago were taken to hospitals as a precaution after being screened for Ebola at O’Hare International Airport. Doctors do not believe they were exposed to the virus.
Report: black, Hispanic children have 50 percent chance of developing diabetes
According to a study published in Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, black and Hispanic children have about a 50 percent chance of developing diabetes over the course of their lifetimes. Americans overall have a 40 percent chance of developing the disease.
HIV Epidemic Growing Fastest Among Black Gay and Bisexual Men
HIV Epidemic Growing Fastest Among Black Gay and Bisexual Men Kai Wright, Colorlines | August 5, 2011 Young black gay and bisexual men are the only population in the U.S. in which the pace of HIV’s spread is increasing, according to a startling study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday. CDC researchers […]
Do black men get better health care behind bars?
Do black men get better health care behind bars? Monique W. Morris, The Grio | June 30, 2011 More than 850,000 black men and women are currently incarcerated in federal or state prisons, or in local jails throughout the U.S. The conditions of confinement have caused deep wounds for African-Americans, compromising the healthy development of communities and […]