By Lizeth Vela and Samantha Rosengard, Urban Health Media Project “Cuídate, cuídate, por favor, abuelita; yo puedo ayudarle,” Alicia Cole told the elderly woman in the hospital bed next to her. “Be careful, please, grandma; I can help you.” Cole was in a California hospital recovering from surgical complications and the woman sharing her room,...
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HeLa cells give life to mankind, heartburn to Lacks family
By Asha Davis May, 2017 BALTIMORE – African -Americans have had a complicated relationship with the health care system for years, going back at least to the distrust and fear caused by dangerous “studies” performed on African-Americans without their permission. In the most infamous of such studies, from 1932 to 1972, African-American men suffering...