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		<title>OxyContin Abuse: Can It Be Slowed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackHealthEditor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chronic pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heroin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opiates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oxycodone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millions of OxyContin prescriptions are written each year and it is an oft-abused medication. But, OxyContin is not alone. Nearly 1.8 million Americans were addicted to some form of prescription pain reliever in 2011, much more than those addicted to cocaine and heroin combined. Increasing the drug’s potential for addiction, some who abuse OxyContin crush the pills [...]<img src="http://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=258388&k=14&bu=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com&r=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com%2Foxycontin-abuse-slowed%2F&bvt=rss&p=wordpress" style="float:left;" xml:base="http://blackhealthmatters.com/feed/" width="1" height="1" border="0" align="right"/>]]></description>
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		<title>Docs, Nurses Disagree Over Expanded Nurse Roles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackHealthEditor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Our Health]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackhealthmatters.com/?p=3134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As nurse practitioners lobby to expand their authority and scope of practice in many states, a New England Journal of Medicine study released Wednesday documents a deep chasm between how doctors and nurses regard the issue. The study found the two groups overwhelmingly agreed that nurse practitioners should be able to practice to the full extent of [...]<img src="http://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=258388&k=14&bu=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com&r=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com%2Fdocs-nurses-disagree-expanded-nurse-roles%2F&bvt=rss&p=wordpress" style="float:left;" xml:base="http://blackhealthmatters.com/feed/" width="1" height="1" border="0" align="right"/>]]></description>
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		<title>New Guidelines: Make HIV Testing Routine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 06:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackHealthEditor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HIV / AIDS]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Our Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grade A recommendation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently released new recommended screening guidelines for HIV. It gave a grade A recommendation for routine HIV screening for everybody aged 15 to 65, and younger adolescents and older adults at an increased risk for HIV infection. It also gave a grade A recommendation for HIV screening for [...]<img src="http://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=258388&k=14&bu=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com&r=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com%2Fguidelines-hiv-testing-routine%2F&bvt=rss&p=wordpress" style="float:left;" xml:base="http://blackhealthmatters.com/feed/" width="1" height="1" border="0" align="right"/>]]></description>
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		<title>Angelina Jolie, Genetic Testing and the ACA</title>
		<link>http://blackhealthmatters.com/angelina-jolie-genetic-testing-aca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 07:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackHealthEditor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Cancer Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[genetic testing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, is on the record with a quick post on Angelina Jolie’s startling announcement in a New York Times op-ed that she has had a prophylactic double mastectomy to cut her inherited risk of breast cancer. Jolie’s mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, died of the [...]<img src="http://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=258388&k=14&bu=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com&r=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com%2Fangelina-jolie-genetic-testing-aca%2F&bvt=rss&p=wordpress" style="float:left;" xml:base="http://blackhealthmatters.com/feed/" width="1" height="1" border="0" align="right"/>]]></description>
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		<title>Fact or Fiction: The Truth About Mammograms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Breast Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force changed the recommendations for mammograms in 2009, there has been much confusion about how effective mammograms are and whether or not women should have them. Here’s what we know about mammograms: According to the National Cancer Institute, more than 60 percent of breast cancer cases are diagnosed before [...]<img src="http://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=258388&k=14&bu=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com&r=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com%2Ffact-fiction-truth-mammograms%2F&bvt=rss&p=wordpress" style="float:left;" xml:base="http://blackhealthmatters.com/feed/" width="1" height="1" border="0" align="right"/>]]></description>
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		<title>Part of the Maddening Crowd: I Have Fibroids</title>
		<link>http://blackhealthmatters.com/part-maddening-crowd-fibroids/</link>
		<comments>http://blackhealthmatters.com/part-maddening-crowd-fibroids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackHealthEditor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fibroids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heavy periods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hysterectomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pain during sex]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackhealthmatters.com/?p=3109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“I felt something hard in my stomach, but it wouldn’t be there all the time. I went for a Pap smear and I told the nurse practitioner that I felt something hard in my stomach,” Ronda Penrice says. “She told me, ‘Maybe it’s something you ate.’” Penrice pauses; her disgust is evident in the silence. [...]<img src="http://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=258388&k=14&bu=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com&r=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com%2Fpart-maddening-crowd-fibroids%2F&bvt=rss&p=wordpress" style="float:left;" xml:base="http://blackhealthmatters.com/feed/" width="1" height="1" border="0" align="right"/>]]></description>
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		<title>Brief: The Pill’s Other Protection</title>
		<link>http://blackhealthmatters.com/brief-pills-protection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 07:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackHealthEditor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birth control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ovarian cancer]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackhealthmatters.com/?p=3105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have known for some time that your birth control pill protects you from more than just an unwanted pregnancy; oral contraceptives also cut the risk of ovarian cancer. What researchers have recently discovered, however, is that this protection continues even after a woman stops taking the pill. In a study, women who took birth [...]<img src="http://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=258388&k=14&bu=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com&r=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com%2Fbrief-pills-protection%2F&bvt=rss&p=wordpress" style="float:left;" xml:base="http://blackhealthmatters.com/feed/" width="1" height="1" border="0" align="right"/>]]></description>
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		<title>The Wrap, May 12</title>
		<link>http://blackhealthmatters.com/wrap-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 15:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackHealthEditor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black men's health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hepatitis C]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melanoma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multiple sclerosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prevent Cancer Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project Brotherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skin cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skin Cancer Awareness Month]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackhealthmatters.com/?p=3100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is what happened at Black Health Matters last week: Black men face a range of serious health issues that generally go ignored in discussions about improving the health and well-being of African Americans. That’s where Project Brotherhood, a Chicago organization, steps in, making sure the men in the South Side neighborhood of Woodlawn have [...]<img src="http://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=258388&k=14&bu=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com&r=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com%2Fwrap-12%2F&bvt=rss&p=wordpress" style="float:left;" xml:base="http://blackhealthmatters.com/feed/" width="1" height="1" border="0" align="right"/>]]></description>
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		<title>Pregnancy: A Time for Special Caution</title>
		<link>http://blackhealthmatters.com/pregnancy-time-special-caution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 16:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackHealthEditor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flu shot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pregnancy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While it may seem obvious, pregnant women should be particularly careful about weighing the risks and benefits of taking medicines. Not all medicines are safe to take during pregnancy. It&#8217;s worth emphasizing some of the lesser-known reasons for caution: Pregnancy may change the way your body processes medications. Pregnant women should ask their health care [...]<img src="http://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=258388&k=14&bu=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com&r=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com%2Fpregnancy-time-special-caution%2F&bvt=rss&p=wordpress" style="float:left;" xml:base="http://blackhealthmatters.com/feed/" width="1" height="1" border="0" align="right"/>]]></description>
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		<title>Houston, We&#8217;ve Bumped Our Head: I’m Running a 5k</title>
		<link>http://blackhealthmatters.com/running-5k/</link>
		<comments>http://blackhealthmatters.com/running-5k/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 07:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackHealthEditor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nutrition & Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[5k]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prevent Cancer Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sprinter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackhealthmatters.com/?p=3085</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was minding my own business when the email popped into my inbox: “Join Us for Another Year of Taking Steps to Save Lives!” I’ve received this invitation to register for the Prevent Cancer Foundation 5k Walk/Run for a few years. In the past I’ve always hit delete. But something made me take a harder [...]<img src="http://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=258388&k=14&bu=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com&r=http%3A%2F%2Fblackhealthmatters.com%2Frunning-5k%2F&bvt=rss&p=wordpress" style="float:left;" xml:base="http://blackhealthmatters.com/feed/" width="1" height="1" border="0" align="right"/>]]></description>
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