MINNEAPOLIS, December 18, 2008—Two new checklists to help Spanish-speaking men and women over the age of 50 decide which preventive medical tests they need and when they need to get them are now available from AHRQ and AARP.

MINNEAPOLIS, November 17, 2008—Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation has developed a 30-minute program and DVD about community building by nonprofits in the Twin Cities and around the state.

MINNEAPOLIS, November 6, 2008—A new booklet published by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation explains how providers can eliminate disparities in their care through a better understanding of world religions.

MINNEAPOLIS, November 3, 2008—A report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that the poorer a child is, the worse his or her health is likely to be.

MINNEAPOLIS, October 27, 2008— Disabled women are more likely to be threatened, hit, slapped, pushed, kicked or physically hurt than those without a disability, says a new study presented at the American Public Health Association’s 136th Annual Meeting & Exposition in San Diego.

MINNEAPOLIS, October 20, 2008—National experts on health disparities will speak at the "Health Equality: Honoring Culture While Closing the Gap" conference, November 12 – 14, 2008, at Mystic Lake Casino and Hotel in Prior Lake, Minnesota.

MINNEAPOLIS, October 9, 2008 - Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota has begun a new initiative to help eliminate health care inequities among children from diverse cultures.

MINNEAPOLIS, August 11, 2008—The Office of Minority Health, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is offering an online CME course that teaches physicians how to provide "culurally competent care" to people from different backgrounds.

Minnesota's Future Doctors program is seeking physician volunteers for its student shadowing program. To learn more, visit http://www.meded.umn.edu/futuredocs or contact Jo Peterson at 612/625-7951.

The MMA’s Minority and Cross Cultural Affairs Committee launched a program to encourage minority students to consider careers in medicine in 2006 that has since been taken over by the MMA's Medical Students Section.

MINNEAPOLIS, July 30, 2008—An organization that seeks to combat the spread of AIDS in the African American U.S. population has accused the federal government of doing too little.

Summer issue, 'Cultural Connections,' published by Hennepin County Office of Multi-Cultural Services