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September 29, 2011 | Story
As a young girl, RWJF Fellow Janice Phillips bore painful witness to the scourge of breast cancer; now she's a renowned leader of the campaign to end it.
February 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer mortality in the United States. Recently, there has been a small, but palpable decline in colorectal cancer incidence and mortality; yet for black patients the rate of decline has been less tha ...
May 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Black men with prostate cancer have poorer disease-specific and overall survival rates than do their U.S. White counterparts. Comorbidity at the time of diagnosis has been shown to predict both overall survival and cause-specific mortality among Whi ...
October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Ifeanyi Anne Nwabukwu, RN, BSN, with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
September 30, 2008 | Story
"I've always been a very curious person-sometimes to my parents' chagrin because I would take things apart and not be able to put them back together," Roberts recalls.
January 31, 2008 | Story
Black pioneered research on designing ways to open the blood-brain barrier, enabling chemotherapeutic drugs to be delivered directly into a tumor.
January 1, 2011 | Toolkit
This resource contains instructions for the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system and how it is used for the purpose of symptom assessment and management. It is a multiple software/hardware system that consists mainly in a telephone calling system ...
October 12, 2004 | Program Results Report
Faculty in the Department of Nursing at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala., trained cosmetologists and others to deliver community-based health education and screening services.