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'It's Truly an honor:' Hampton University appoints first black man to lead university's nursing school
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (326+ words) HAMPTON, Va. — Hampton University's nursing school has a new leader, marking a milestone moment for the university and others like it. Dr. Michael Jones is the first black man to lead HU’s School of Nursing. He’s also only the second…...
Valisia LeKae on Surviving Ovarian Cancer and Supporting Black Women
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1235+ words) When Valisia LeKae was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at 34, she was in the middle of a thriving Broadway career. She portrayed Diana Ross on Broadway in Motown the Musical, a role that earned her Tony and Grammy nominations, and she…...
Lamiez Holworthy Celebrates Being the Cover Star of A Major Magazine's Legacy and Breast Cancer Awareness Issue
1+ week, 5+ day ago (297+ words) Youth Village Lamiez Holworthy Celebrates Being the Cover Star of A Major Magazine's Legacy and Breast Cancer Awareness Issue The past couple of weeks have been quite eventful in the life of Lamiez Holworthy She was recently hospitalized due to…...
7th annual Going Purple Together slated for this month
1+ week, 6+ day ago (279+ words) Mid Shore Behavioral Health and local health departments will host the Going Purple Together event Saturday, Sept. 26. EASTON — Mid Shore Behavioral Health, in partnership with the health departments of Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot counties, will host the…...
PSA Detect and Protect Program saving lives in Black communities
2+ week, 16+ hour ago (963+ words) • UHN’s PSA Detect and Protect program provides free prostate cancer screening to high-risk Black men across the GTA. • More than 650 men have been tested since 2023, with nine prostate cancer cases diagnosed and treated. • The program removes barriers to early detection…...
Handful of volunteers turn out to ‘redd up’ Leechburg for Pink Day
2+ week, 1+ day ago (354+ words) If many hands make for light work, fewer hands were a demonstration of dedication to one’s community in Leechburg on Sunday. Only a handful of people answered Mayor Doreen Smeal’s call for volunteers to redd up Market Street for Pink…...
Black ER Doctor Kara Toles Confronts Bias In Care
2+ week, 2+ day ago (772+ words) Her patient was moments from death, suffering from a severe brain infection, yet adamant that he’d rather leave the emergency room than be treated by a Black doctor. By her. Navigating the emergency room as a Black woman involves a…...
We Asked a Doctor About Some of the Most Common Black Health Myths: Here’s What She Wants Us to Know
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How CBS’s Beyond the Gates Uses a Multigenerational Cancer Battle to Break the Silence on Black Family Health - BlackDoctor - Where Culture Meets Care
3+ week, 11+ hour ago (546+ words) On CBS’s daytime drama Beyond the Gates, Anita Dupree is the woman everyone expects to stand tall. She is the fierce matriarch of the Dupree family, a former superstar, Vernon’s wife, Dani and Nicole’s mother, and a grandmother whose sheer…...
Black Patients Live Longer With Black Doctors? What the Research Says - BlackDoctor - Where Culture Meets Care
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (908+ words) This is not an article about Black doctors being inherently better doctors, nor is it a story about patients only receiving good care from providers who look like them. Instead, it is about trust, communication, representation, bias, and what happens…...