JHS: Getting To The Heart Of Cardiovascular Disease
(BlackDoctor.org) -- Paul Covington of Mississippi coached basketball for 30 years before retiring from Jackson State University. He knew he hadn’t always followed a healthy diet even though he was quite active. Wrong food choices and late-night meals were the sources of concern. He was already a volunteer for the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study initially in the 1980s and is still a part of that research at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the state’s only health
WHI: Helping Improve The Lives Of Postmenopausal Women
(BlackDoctor.org) -- In 1996, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a 15–year study to address the most common causes of death, disability, and impaired quality of life in postmenopausal women: cardiovascular disease, cancer, and osteoporosis. The WHI was a multi-million-dollar endeavor, and one of the largest U.S. prevention studies of its kind. More than 160,000 generally healthy postmenopausal women, aged 50 to 79, participated in one or
African Americans Underrepresented In Clinical Trials
(BlackDoctor.org) -- There has been a general distrust of the healthcare system among some African Americans since the Tuskegee Experiment. On July 26, 1972, the New York Times reported on what it called the "longest running non-therapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history." Departing from their Hippocratic oath to "First, do no harm," physicians from the U.S. Public Health Service allowed nearly 400 poor, black sharecroppers with syphilis to go untreated for 40 years. These men from Macon
(BlackDoctor.org) -- The term "clinical trial" strikes fear in many people. For some, it conjures up images of scientists performing experiments on innocent mice in a laboratory, but that just isn’t the case. Clinical trials are simply research studies involving people. They are vitally important in the development of new strategies for preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases. Many of today's standard treatments—those that are widely accepted and used by medical experts—are based on
Clinical Trials
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Clinical Trials – African Americans who participate in clinical trials can play a more active role in their own health, gain access to new research treatments before they are widely available, and help other African Americans by contributing to medical research.
(BlackDoctor.org) -- Paul Covington of Mississippi coached basketball for 30 years before retiring from Jackson State University. He knew he hadn’t always followed a healthy diet even though he was quite active. Wrong food choices and late-night meals were the sources of concern. He was already a volunteer for the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study initially in the 1980s and is still a part of that research at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the state’s only health
(BlackDoctor.org) -- In 1996, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a 15–year study to address the most common causes of death, disability, and impaired quality of life in postmenopausal women: cardiovascular disease, cancer, and osteoporosis. The WHI was a multi-million-dollar endeavor, and one of the largest U.S. prevention studies of its kind. More than 160,000 generally healthy postmenopausal women, aged 50 to 79, participated in one or
(BlackDoctor.org) -- There has been a general distrust of the healthcare system among some African Americans since the Tuskegee Experiment. On July 26, 1972, the New York Times reported on what it called the "longest running non-therapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history." Departing from their Hippocratic oath to "First, do no harm," physicians from the U.S. Public Health Service allowed nearly 400 poor, black sharecroppers with syphilis to go untreated for 40 years. These men from Macon
(BlackDoctor.org) -- The term "clinical trial" strikes fear in many people. For some, it conjures up images of scientists performing experiments on innocent mice in a laboratory, but that just isn’t the case. Clinical trials are simply research studies involving people. They are vitally important in the development of new strategies for preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases. Many of today's standard treatments—those that are widely accepted and used by medical experts—are based on
