Neurology at Columbia University and the founder of hiphop Public Health daniela font, a member of hiphop Health Student advisory board, and justin williams, a hiphop hero. Thank you all for being with us this afternoon. Were gonna start with you, dr. Williams, because i know this was your brainchild. What made you think that hiphop music and Teaching Health would be a good and effective combination . So, you know, we believe that, often, resistance to positive change in behavior, especially among children, is often rooted in resistance to the message and or the messenger. We also believe that credibility is the cornerstone of these pillars of Health Communication, from our perspective, we decided that we were gonna focus on developing a program that strengthens the message component, hence our student advisory board, and also have the right messenger for the youth, hence hiphop music and all its tenets that we incorporate into the program. Yeah, and its something that their mind and e
Here and now. Information technology is the Fastest Growing job sector. Thats according to the bureau of labor statistics. Addressing the lack of minority representation in the computer and Information Technology field is one of the primary directives of the National Action council for minorities in engineering. And joining us today is dr. Irving pressley mcphail, the president and chief executive officer of nacme. Welcome. Nice to have you on the show. Thank you. Happy to be here. Why is it so important that more minority youngsters be geared steered, i should say towards stem, essentially science, technology, engineering, and math . Well, you started by quoting some data from the bureau of labor statistics. We know that our stem disciplines provide wonderful opportunities for employment. They provide wonderful opportunities for engineers and computer scientists and others to make significant contributions to improving the quality of life. These are exciting opportunities, exciting di
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Maskot/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Although rates of strokes in the adult population have generally decreased over the last several decades, the racial inequity gap persists, according to a new study in Neurology, which found that Black adults are still more likely to have strokes compared to white adults, and at younger ages.
Researchers analyzed data on patients with their first stroke in Ohio and Kentucky from 1993 to 2015, and found that overall, the rates of strokes have decreased. However, Black adults became more likely to have their first stroke at a younger age than white adults - the average age for a Black adult decreased from 66 to 62 years of age, and for white adults only decreased from 72 to 71. Black adults remained 52 to 83% more likely to have first-time strokes than white adults for all time points of the study, especially for younger adults aged 20 to 44.
"Black adults had higher rates of stroke in all of the study periods, and unfortunately the difference in t