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Where do we go from here? As America continues to move progressively forward in turbulence and in truth, I’m stirred to recall a prolific statement by one of my favorite African American heroes, the Rev ... The undisputed truth of achievements of African Americans is still alive and functioning in our lives today....

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Newborn abandoned

American Press 14 Feb 2019

The infant, who Mancuso said is African-American, was left outside Lake Charles Memorial Hospital for Women on Gauthier Road ... He said the only definite information authorities have on the infant's mother at this point is that "this person was pregnant yesterday and isn't today," Mancuso said....

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Hologic’s Aptima HIV-1 Quant Dx Assay Receives Two CE Marks, Making It the First and Only Dual-Claim Assay for Both Viral Load and Early Infant Diagnosis

Market Watch 14 Feb 2019

This means the assay can be used to qualitatively detect HIV-1 RNA as an aid in the diagnosis of HIV-1 infected infants under 18 months old, and to test an additional sample type (DBS) to monitor viral load and disease progression in HIV-1 infected individuals in European and African countries....

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Newborn baby pulled from storm drain in South Africa

Wtop 12 Feb 2019

Rescue Care Paramedics, one of the groups that helped to extricate the infant girl in Durban, says it is unclear why the baby was “dumped” and that ... South African media say the infant is being treated in a hospital....

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Health experts hope to drive Michigan infant mortality below the national average

News Review 12 Feb 2019

“We’ve been working on this since the ‘70s, but we’ve found new ways to address these problems,” said Ninah Sasy, a senior maternal child health strategist for the state’s Mother Infant Health and Equity Improvement Plan (MIHIP) ... African Americans have the highest infant death rate in the state at 13.8 deaths per 1,000 live births....

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Newborn baby pulled from storm drain in South Africa | The Sacramento Bee

Sacramento Bee 12 Feb 2019

Rescue Care Paramedics, one of the groups that helped to extricate the infant girl in ... South African media say the infant is being treated in a hospital....

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'Dumped' newborn baby pulled from drain in dramatic rescue in South Africa

TVNZ 12 Feb 2019

Rescue Care Paramedics, one of the groups that helped to extricate the infant girl ... South African media say the infant is being treated in a hospital....

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Newborn baby rescued from storm drain in South Africa

Belfast Telegraph 12 Feb 2019

Rescue workers in South Africa have pulled a newborn baby from a storm drain in a four-hour operation that ended with whoops and cheers from onlookers ... South African media said the infant is being treated in hospital ... ....

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The Legacy of a Legacy

Taylor Press 09 Feb 2019

They just know he was an African-American doctor in Williamson County during the 1940s and 1950s ... He studied health problems among the African American population and learned some of the main causes of death, which included diarrhea among infants, complications during childbirth, tuberculosis, venereal diseases and violence....

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Broward deputy escalates situation calling a black father 'boy' amid foul language sparks complaint

Democratic Underground 09 Feb 2019

... Public Defenders Office after bodycam video from a July 2017 incident emerged last month.Deputy James Cady confronts Allen Floyd, an African-American father calmly holding his infant, angrily drops f-bombs and calls Floyd boy before appearing to grab Floyd by the throat....

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Experimental gene therapy could produce cure for Sickle Cell

The Grio 29 Jan 2019

Sickle cell disease is caused by a mutation in one errant gene that is found mostly in people of African descent. An estimated 100,000 people in the United States and about 300,000 infants worldwide are born with the condition each year. Sickle Cell is most common in sub-Saharan Africa, where an estimated 70 percent of children with it die ... ....

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Can racism play a role in infant mortality? Riverside County helps black mothers find support, community

The Press Enterprise 28 Jan 2019

The program is the state’s response to addressing black infant mortality disparities across California ... The Black Infant Health program has come a long way since it was created in 1989 when a state Senate bill passed and made funds available to address the high rate of infant mortality among African-American families....

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Patty Jenkins reveals the real-life origins behind her true-crime miniseries 'I Am the Night'

Yahoo Daily News 28 Jan 2019

More. The new limited series I Am the Night — which premieres Monday at 9 p.m ... Into that world walks Fauna Hodel (India Eisley), a young woman fresh off the bus from Reno, Nev., searching not for stardom, but for her birth family. Adopted by African-American parents as an infant, she’s since discovered that her origins are more complicated ... Wild!....