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3B • ## LIFE/ tirge Charlotte Thursday, August 17, 2006 Hip hop tees with positive message Continued from page 1B For women, the slogans are: “I Love Being Me.” “Respect My Grind.” “Standard' of Beauty” “I Am Stror^r Than My Situation.” “Never Settle.” For men, the slogans on the shirts are: “Stay Focus^” “Respect My Grind; “Success is More Than a Word” “Success Starts and Ends with Me.” For babies, the slogans on the shirts are; “Dream Big.” “I Love Being Me.” “These are more than just tee-shirts,” liash said. “This is how people feel.” Influence Entertainment will open a kiosk in Durham’s Nord^ate Mall in the nesct month. Research more closely monitored Continued from page 1B health and contribute to. racial disparities in health and healthcare. EstabHshiiag interpersonal trust between the study inv^tigators and study participants is essential to successful study recniit- ment and retention. The future Over the past 20 years, fed eral regulations and guide lines have been developed and implemented to inform and protect study partici pants. These guidelines include ■ ii^onned ’.consent, subject confidentiality, early termina- tiori of studies, and dissemi nation of study results to com- . mimity participants. The participation of minoiities in medical I’eseajnh is a critical element of national and regional efforts to .-decrease and eliminate he^ltli dispari ties. The development of new knowledge throu^ responsi ble research is needed to impi*ove health outcomes. Trlistworthiness among research institutions benefits botli the reseai'chers and the participants! Physician and investigator behaviors that engender trust include caiir^, technical com petence, and good communi cation skills. A trustwcxrthy doctor or researcher will take the time to answer all a patient’s questions to the best of his or her ability and to develop a good rapport with tliat patient. He or she not only listens to the patient, but also truly heare what the patient is saying and seeks to understand how that patimt feels. Your questions, wishes, fears, and triumphs are important to you; they should also be important to your doc tor or the researcher with whom you are working. Remember, knowledge is power, but it is what you do with it that makes all the dif ference. Contribution by Kristy F. Woods. MD. MPH For more information on research participation among minorities contact the Maya Angelou research Center on Minority Health at (336) 713- 7578. Dr. James R. Samuel, Pastor if 1st Pastoral /rV iilASTERPEACE f t M-Anniversaryfi ^ \ Sunday. Aug. 20th 3pm CHRISTIAN jj CENTER TheAppredacionFtogram /m includes guest ministers 610 W, 7th St. (First Ward Recreation Center) 704-651-9898 • www.masterpeacechristiancenter.com Anointed Teaching, Powerful Preaching! Black colleges reach to broader demographic Continued from page 1B college will help them get “a real life view about what black people are all about," Nero added. Student James 'Il'avis, 21, who is black, said having stu dents of othei- races on a his torically black canipus both ers him “a little bit" because it challenges the colleges mis sion. “It’s supposed to mahitain tlie historically black ti’adi- tion,” said R’avis, who is fiom Atlanta’s College Park sub- m*b. "I’ll have to see how it goes before I, see if I want to change the situation or not.” Educatoi-s said the nation’s two largest miiiority groiips are a natural fit on a college campus. “They are both underseived conmumities when it comes to higher education,” said Michael Lomax, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund. "We have got to educate them so ihat we can have a competitive work force in die 21st century” Miranda, one of 15 Hispanics at Morehouse, said it has not bothered him being on a majority black campus. “Since I’ve been at Morehouse, Tve gotten a dif ferent perspective on a lot of things,” Mranda said, refer ring to black history “I learned a lot that was left out of the schooling I got.” On the Net; Morehouse College: hltp:/hvwwjnorehouse£du Texas Southern University: http://wwwJsu £du Howard University: http:/lwww]ioward£du United Negro College Fund: hltp://uncf.org Study finds no advantage to fourth AIDS dmg Continued from page 1B Researchei’s made the two dn^ cocktails equally easy for patients to take, dehvering. both in five phis taken daiiy- Patients and their doctors didn’t know which cocktail they were getting. The study will appear in Wednesday’s Joiunal of the American Medical Association and was released Stmday to coincide with the opening of the 16th International AIDS Conference. Researchers foimd that the four-drug cocktail, which added the HTV drug abacavir, had no advants^ in reducing the amoimt of virus in patients’ blood. Compai'ed witli standard therapy it also did -not increase levels of CD4 ceUs'tliat fight infection. “Over the entire course of the study, at no point did there seem to be. an advantage of the foiu’-ding regimen,” Kuritzkes said. Supported by grants fix)ra the National Institutes of Health, the research was con ducted at more than 40 U.S. sites. Several pharmaceutical companies provided drugs. Some of the researchers, including Kuritzkes, reported financial ties with the makers • of HIV drugs. More than half the patients in the study were black or Hispanic and almost 20 per cent were female. “It was a pretty diverse pop ulation that reflects the epi demic today” Kuiitzkes said. Black patients who took the drugs as directed did as well as white patients, but blacks who did not adhere precisely to the drug routine returned to high virus levels quicker than whites who did not take the drugs as prescribed. The reason for the difference was not clear, Kuritzkes said. Alcohol sales over the internet loosely monitored Continued from page 1B sumer can order 24 bottles per montli fiTsm direct ship- ping companies. According to the whole salers, websites that sell alco hol asked that buyere eonfiim they are 21 by dicking a but ton. “It’s naive to think that we can rely on a rushed deliveiy tinck driver to slow down and take the time to enforce a face to face ID check to veiify a recipient’s age before deHver- ing alcohol,” the site states. 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