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If ever there was a cancer in need of an effective screen, its ovarian cancer. Consider these facts; approximately 20,000 new cases of ovarian cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States and approximately 16,000 deaths are attributed to the disease. The 5- year survival for patients diagnosed with cancer confined to the ovary is over 90% but drops to 25-30% for women whose disease has spread to the upper abdomen or distant sites.
Publicly funded historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) admitted, enrolled, and matriculated larger numbers of African American female than male students between 1996 and 2006, according to recently released data.
BlackEnterprise.com talked with entrepreneur TenishaPercel about how she started her two businesses and what lessons she learned when one of them became too much to handle.
The number of employees on company payrolls continues to decline in most industries. But in healthcare, the situation is different. Although 216,000 jobs disappeared from the overall economy in August, the healthcare industry added 28,000 positions. There are 544,000 more healthcare jobs now than there were at the December 2007 start of the recession.
