Minority Health Today articles

Recent articles from Minority Health Today

From the Executive Editor.(global HIV/AIDS epidemic)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
July 1, 2000... Louis W. Sullivan THE HUMANITARIAN CHALLENGE OF THE GLOBAL HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC Many of us followed the scientific and public reports emanating from the International Conference on HIV and AIDS held in Durban, South Africa, in July...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2000... Novel Theory Offered on Cause of Domestic Violence The article "Domestic Violence: What Clinicians Need to Know," by Janice B. Asher, MD, in the January/February 2000 issue of Minority Health Today takes the politically correct, if...

THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS.
July 1, 2000... Abstract The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic has had a profound effect on the nation's health. Nearly 700 000 people in the United States were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to have contracted...

WOMEN MEDICAL STUDENTS TEND TO FAVOR HEALTH CARE REFORM.
July 1, 2000... Abstract A study was designed to measure the effect of the rapidly increasing number of women in medicine on health care reform, with its potential to benefit minority and high-risk populations. Goals of the study were to assess...

BLACK MEN AND DIVORCE: IMPLICATIONS FOR CULTURALLY COMPETENT PRACTICE.
July 1, 2000... Divorce takes a particularly heavy toll on black men, resulting in mental health problems that commonly present as physiological symptoms Introduction The structure of the black family has undergone significant change over the past 30...

SARCOIDOSIS HAS MANY CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS.
July 1, 2000... Sarcoidosis is an acquired idiopathic, multisystem disorder characterized by noncaseating granulomas in the involved tissue. This condition of unknown origin is most common in African Americans and northern Europeans. The organs most...

HOW MUCH CAN THE SAFETY NET HOLD?
July 1, 2000... The rising number of uninsured and the expansion of Medicaid managed care are straining the financial viability of the current health care safety net The US health care system presents a troubling paradox: While perhaps the most...

TEACH PROGRAM RAISES TB AWARENESS.
July 1, 2000... A Louisiana State University program, titled "Tuberculosis Education Aimed at Community Health" (TEACH), achieves its dual objectives of educating medical students and providing community outreach Introduction Despite the availability...

CURRENT ASTHMA CLINICAL TRIALS.
July 1, 2000... Asthma is the most common chronic illness among children in the United States, with African Americans and Hispanics being disproportionately affected. The reasons for these disparities may be environmental or biological or both. One recent...

THE UNEQUAL BURDEN OF CANCER.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... National Cancer Institute Grants Awarded to Improve Prevention and Control Efforts in Minority Populations Some people just aren't comfortable talking about cancer. A 65-year-old man diagnosed with prostate cancer told his doctor that his...

TREATING SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS.
July 1, 2000... Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the most serious form of lupus, is a chronic, multi-system, autoimmune disease. SLE can occur in men, but the incidence is 10 times more frequent in adult women. Whereas SLE afflicts people of all races, it...

THEO W. HODGE, JR., MD.
July 1, 2000... When Theo W. Hodge, Jr. graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1987, he believed he would "take care of the world." He decided immediately that he would focus on caring for uninsured and underserved patients with human...