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Blacks account for more than half of the AIDS deaths in the US.

Some groups are as different from each other as Europeans are to Chinese.

Researchers say genes contribute to higher obesity rates in Mexicans.

Scabies, chicken pox, and staph infections.

Black survival rates haven't improved in 40 years, despite advances in treatment.

There are substantial racial differences in approval rates.

Since 2000, all measles cases come from overseas.

American journalists are terrified of racial differences.

The Times critiques its longtime science writer's latest book.

They drown at 5 times the rate of whites.

Harvard doctors say it may be a more severe form of PTSD: "hood disease."

Even controlling for income, blacks are 1.84 times more likely to get the worst kind of breast cancer.

And the SAT measures it.

SES and physical activity level explain only 10 percent of the obesity disparity in women.

Non-whites are exposed to 40 percent more air pollution than whites.

The virus kills a majority of those infected.

Penn's Africana Studies Department to report the latest findings on race.

Whites' brain lipid concentration differs from other races because of these genes.

Will British officials clamor for a narrowing of this "health gap"?

Nearly a quarter of young black women in South Africa are infected.

17 percent of blacks in California are uninsured; only 3 percent of California enrollees are black.

There's been a lack of "culturally sensitive" outreach.

It has become impossible to ignore the biological basis of race.

And also your armpit scent.

It can distinguish even between people from different parts of Finland.

There was a different lactose-tolerance mutation in Africa from that of Europe.

Unvaccinated college student brought the disease to California.

They edited the genes to match an HIV-resistant variant found in 10 percent of whites.

Whitey's to blame.

Illegals who received deferred action can qualify for Medicaid in California.

Many already go to ER for free so don't want to pay for Obamacare.

24,700 black babies were born in NYC; 31,328 were aborted.

Poor area's new $15 million "Fresh Grocer" hasn't changed bad eating habits.

Science is making racial reality undeniable.

Multi-culti Coke is trying to hook Hispanics on sugar water.

Obamacare makes it harder for Hispanics to find doctors "who appreciate our culture."

Income and education do not explain the differences.

What Obama will never tell you.

Black babies are twice as likely as white babies to die in their first month.

Some Neanderthal genes affecting skin and hair are common in non-Africans.

Bacterium strain is more likely to cause cancer if it evolved in a different region than the human host.

Only 20 percent of people who have signed up are Hispanic.

Is this why blacks in temperate climes have high blood pressure?

He also spread gonorrhea.

They are as likely as whites to have high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

They don't realize how fat they are.

Asians are half as likely as blacks to be overweight.

There's still time to sign up to hear this important message on the evils of "racism."

Blacks who complain of discrimination and who have anti-black attitudes have shorter telomeres.

Whites share a gene mutation for light skin with some Middle Easterners and Indians.

White more likely than blacks and Hispanics to approve of doctor-assisted suicide.

They are more likely to have high blood pressure.

Amerindians and Hispanics are most likely to have the variant.

Also finds blacks are twice as likely as whites to have undiagnosed high blood pressure.

Black women have slower metabolisms.

Both whites and Somalis in Minneapolis have abnormally high rates of autism.

Obamacare needs them badly.

. . . between non-whites and the "general population."

It would help more blacks if red states would expand Medicaid.

80 percent of men who get HIV from other men are black or Hispanic.

Discovered in Africa. Immigrants expected to bring it to the United States and Europe.

Hispanics, particularly recent immigrants, were the least stressed.

55 percent of Obamacare recipients are expected to be non-white.

. . . in blacks, at least.

Asians administrators fill Obamacare's highest ranks.

National Urban League employees receiving federal money to encourage healthcare applicants to lie.

"We may need to consider our patient’s race when using certain heart disease therapies."

Mexicans now more likely to be fat than Americans.

Obamacare appears to be obsessed with race.

Race can be identified by mouth bacteria.

Asians show obesity-related symptoms at a lower body mass index.

Nearly half of blacks are obese.

159 confirmed cases; one death.

"Non-Nordic" was a "diagnosis."

Some think race-specific treatment is "discriminatory."