PHEN’s 12th Annual African American Prostate Cancer – Disparity Summit to take place September 15-16, 2016, on Capitol Hill and Washington Convention Center

August 18, 2016

(Boston, MA)—August 15, 2016—The Prostate Health Education Network (PHEN) will host its Twelfth Annual “African American Prostate Cancer Disparity Summit,” on Thursday, September 15th, from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., at the United States Capitol Visitors Center, (Room HVC 201AB) and on Friday, September 16th, at the Washington Convention Center (801 MT. Vernon Place NW,…

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African Americans, Hispanics face greater risk of heart failure

March 10, 2016

DALLAS, Feb. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — More than 915,000 Americans will be diagnosed with heart failure this year, according to the recently published American Heart Association 2016 Statistical Update. Heart failure, a chronic, progressive condition in which the heart can’t pump blood efficiently to meet the body’s needs, is one of the most common heart…

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