Focus on Health: Race and Poverty and Immigration in America Today
January 23rd, 2013
Written by Rita Rizzo in Focus on Health, Latest News with 0 Comments
Here’s to your health! When it comes to staying healthy African-Americans experience multiple challenges. Genetically specific disease like sickle cell anemia is confined to African-Americans, but it is not one of the ten leading causes of death for Blacks. Blacks die most commonly from the same ailments that plague those of other races, but they do so with different frequency and often at...
January 10th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in Focus on Health, Latest News with 0 Comments
Since 1995, the ongoing Black Women's Health Study (BWHS) has been documenting the higher rates of many illnesses that disproportionately affect African American women, such as hypertension, breast cancer, diabetes, stroke, and lupus. Led by researchers at Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center, the BWHS has followed 59,000 African American women through a biennial questionnaire.
Now, the...
January 7th, 2013
Written by Rita Rizzo in Focus on Health, Latest News with 0 Comments
Currently, 54 million Hispanics live in the U.S. By 2050, that number is expected to rise to 132.8 million. For this reason, Hispanic health concerns are getting more attention from the American medical establishment than in the past. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that Hispanic Americans tend to live longer than either black or white Americans despite the fact that this population...
December 31st, 2012
Written by Rita Rizzo in Focus on Health, Latest News with 0 Comments
One out of every five black men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime, and five out of 100 will die from it. Black men are more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and one that is more aggressive and more advanced than men of other ethnicities. They are also more likely to develop the disease at a younger age than other men. To bring attention to this alarming...
October 24th, 2012
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Focus on Health, Latest News with 0 Comments
According to the World Health Organization, the United States places 17th in the frequency of breast cancer rates, with 21.2 per 100,000 females. Japan has the lowest rates: only 8.6 per 100,000, while Iceland has the highest number: 39.4 per 100,000. With Japan having the lowest rates there is much speculation about the Japanese diet and its effects on health in general and breast cancer in...
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