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NPR News and Notes With Farai Chideya

Archive for November 20th, 2007

20 Nov

All About Race on National Public Radio

Tomorrow, I will make my first appearance on NPR’s “News & Notes,” as part of a bloggers roundtable. Farai Chideya is the show’s host and I will be in studio with her. The other participants are Shay Riley of Booker Rising and Mark Anthony Neal of New Black Man.
We tape at 10am PST, [...]

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20 Nov

Point of Interest: Latinos And African-Americans Live Longer With Alzheimer’s Disease

According to a study published November 14, 2007, in the online edition of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, Latinos and African Americans with Alzheimer’s disease live longer than white people who have the disease. Researchers do not know why this is the case, but the study’s author offered a few [...]

Filed Posted in Point of Interest, Race and Medicine by: Carmen D.Comments Comments 1 Comment