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CHICAGO — The detection rates of adenoma and advanced adenoma were alarmingly high in a small group of predominantly black men and women who underwent free screening colonoscopy in an…Read More

SCHOLARS DISPARITIES PROGRAM The Center for Healthy African American Men through Partnerships (CHAAMPS) (U54MD008620), led by the University of Minnesota and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, invites applications for…Read More

CHAAMPS announces the selected 2017 pilot research projects The addition of these projects brings the total research portfolio to 19 research projects.   The 2017 projects will be lead by:…Read More

Badrinath Konety, MD, MBA Chairman of the Department of Urology Director of the Institute for Prostate and Urologic Cancers University of Minnesota             The majority…Read More

Read more about CHAAMPS researchers publications, abstracts and presentations. Published Research Abstracts and PresentationsRead More

  MONDAY, July 3, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- The death rate for black infants in the United States has risen in recent years, while the rate for white infants continues…Read More

Your browser does not support iframes.    The NIMHD’s widget provides an easy way to find health disparities data related to the Healthy People 2020 objectives for the Leading Health Indicators (LHIs).…Read More

Recipient: Donavon J. Hess, MD, University of Minnesota Title: "Race differences in the use of intracranial pressure monitoring and inpatient rehabilitation among young men with traumatic brain injury." Research Question/Hypothesis: Young…Read More

June is men’s health month, which is a topic we here at CHAAMPS care greatly about. Specifically we want to emphasize ways in which we can improve African American men’s…Read More

June 8, 2017 by MSR News Online Discrimination can have a negative impact on health in a variety of ways. For the first time, researchers at the University of Minnesota…Read More