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All the Doctors and Nurses saw was an incompetent Black woman

    The World Bank classifies nations where people earn $2.73 per day or more as middle-income countries (MICs), even though this arbitrary claim is entirely out of touch with reality. Few people would be able to survive, let alone have any income for shelter and healthcare on such a meager budget – roughly the cost of a cup of coffee in a wealthy country.

      Saturday was a day of “firsts” and “new beginnings” for the Collins Chapel Connectional Hospital effort as the project’s board of directors honored 13 physicians and healthcare advocates in the first class of Collins Chapel Healthcare Legacy Awards.

The New Mount Olive Baptist Church Health & Wellness Ministry is hosting a Mental Health Conference:

     “Our strategic partnerships with progressive and powerful organizations like the National Coalition of 100 Black Women are vital to achieving our mission because they provide the amplification needed to reach more Black women with life-saving information and resources,” said Linda Goler Blount, President & CEO, The Black Women’s Health Imperative.

   Outspoken marijuana fan Whoopi Goldberg today announced she is launching a new line of products featuring the drug that claims to help women who suffer from menstrual stomach cramps.

     Thanks to the generosity of many of you, the World AIDS Museum (www.worldaidsmuseum.org) succeeded in its fundraising efforts through participation in the Florida AIDS Walk and Music Festival. 

Each year, the Medicare program loses $60 billion to fraud. The best way to reduce this figure is beneficiary education to prevent and reduce known pathways to fraudulent activities and unethical billing practices. The SHINE Senior Medicare Patrol Program has been hearing about DNA and genetic testing schemes in other parts of the country, and we recently learned that they are starting here in Florida.

April is officially recognized as National Minority Health Month? Numerous health providers work tirelessly each day to raise awareness about the health disparities that continue to affect racial and ethnic minorities. They also work to increase awareness about the health care law’s groundbreaking policies to reduce these disparities and achieve health equity.

     New York City on Tuesday declared a public health emergency amid a measles outbreak in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn.