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Neighborhood Network News has produced a video profile of a health center in Dorchester, Boston, that is trying a new approach to treating diabetes and reducing racial disparities in health.

Updated on March 7, 2008 

(Hartford, Conn., April 24, 2008)–The Appropriations Committee of the Senate voted favorably today on a bill to establish Connecticut's first Minority Health Advisory Commission.

The bill now goes

Stephanie Harriston-Diggs of the American Cancer Society (ACS) said that patients uninsured at time of cancer diagnosis are 1.6 times more likely to die in five years than those privately insured. (Photo: Fayfoto and ACS)

American Cancer Society Addresses Ethnic Disparities in Cancer

Survivors Offer Support

by Eduardo A. de Oliveira

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B. Alex White, DDS, DrPH, director of analytics, Catalyst Institute, and lead author of the report, "The Oral Health of Massachusetts' Children"

A new report of the Boston-based Catalyst Institute
finds that great racial disparities exist in the oral health of

BOSTON, Dec. 4, 2007-Latinos and African Americans each comprise only 6% of the population of Massachusetts, but they make up more than 50% of the state's residents who have HIV/AIDS.

Dr. JudyAnn Bigby

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Boston, MA

United States

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Following is an edited trancript of Dr. Bigby's phone interview with New England Ethnic News, on Nov. 29, 2007.