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Before Bill Gates, There Was Roy L. Clay Sr.
To today’s iPad generation, accustomed to lightweight portable computing power, the first computer Roy L. Clay Sr. helped build may seem like a relic. When Clay, now 82, learned how to program computer code in 1956, Bill Gates was in diapers. Universities didn’t have computer science programs. And a computer stable enough to run for…
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Should Men Really Get Prostate-Cancer Tests?
A federal panel’s controversial recommendation that healthy men older than 50 avoid a PSA-based prostate screening test is drawing scorn from some doctors. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of medical experts, evaluated studies involving 300,000 men conducted in nine countries, including the United States, to issue its determination that PSA screenings,…
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Tobacco Companies Resist Graphic Labels
A federal court judge expects to rule by late October on whether the Food and Drug Administration can require new, strident text warnings and images to be added to cigarette packaging that could affect the one in five African Americans who still smoke. At a Sept. 21 hearing in the U.S. District Court for the…
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Company Offers Blacks Free DNA Testing
To significantly boost the amount of genetic information collected about African Americans — which allows people to peer deeper into their ancestry and also to improve their medical care — a California-based genetic-testing company is offering free access to its Web-based service. The company, 23andMe, is inviting 10,000 adults of African descent to sign up…
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