News tagged with black residents
Race guides neighborhood evaluation, study says
Nov 20, 2008 |
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Race is a powerful determinant of how whites regard a neighborhood, according to a recent study at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Michigan.
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White patients benefit more than blacks in surviving surgical complications at teaching hospitals
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Elderly patients who undergo surgery at teaching-intensive hospitals have better survival rates than at nonteaching hospitals, but these better survival rates apparently occur in white patients, not black patients.
Report says 3 percent in DC have HIV or AIDS
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A new report by D.C. health officials says that at least 3 percent of residents in the nation's capital are living with HIV or AIDS and every mode of transmission is on the rise.
1 in 8 Lower Manhattan residents had signs of PTSD 2 to 3 years after 9/11
Jun 13, 2008 |
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For many residents of Lower Manhattan, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, had lasting psychological consequences. New findings, released today by the Health Department's World Trade Center Health Registry, show ...
Residents play key role in CT colonography awareness and promoting the radiology specialty
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Residents can serve a vital role in educating Congress, the medical community, and the general public regarding the efficacy of cutting-edge technologies like CT colonography (CTC) as well as the importance of radiologists' ...
Lack of stores linked to early deaths
Jul 18, 2006 |
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A Chicago study says city residents living near fast-food restaurants and few grocery stores are more likely to die prematurely.
Iowa 911 call center becomes first to accept texts
Aug 05, 2009 |
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An emergency call center in the basement of the county jail in Waterloo, Iowa, became the first in the country to accept text messages sent to "911," starting Wednesday.
Study examines correlation between race and police force size
Oct 01, 2007 |
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Empirical studies have long shown that crime rate and budget alone do not account for the size of an area’s police force. Police forces tend to be larger in areas where blacks comprise a larger percentage, and many sociologists ...
Where were you when Apollo 11 landed? Not born yet
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Most Americans have never known a world where man hasn't been to the moon. It used to be a given that people knew where they were when man first walked on the moon on July 20, 1969, watching the black-and-white ...
Chinese scientists create metamaterial black hole
Oct 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two physicists in China have used metamaterials to create the first artificial electromagnetic black hole. The scientists, Qiang Cheng and Tie Jun Cui from the Southeast University in Nanjing, ...
Island village hit by suspected swine flu
Nov 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island - prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.
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