Black MBA - Winter 2007/2008 - (Page 18) UP FRONT AFRICAN AMERICANS WITH ALZHEIMER’S LIVE LONGER FOLLOWING AN ALZHEIMER’S diagnosis, African Americans tend to live 15 percent longer than white patients, a study by researchers at the University of California-San Francisco reports. The study factored in age, gender and living conditions, and encompassed research from 1984 to 2005 at more than 30 Alzheimer’s Disease Centers across the U.S. While individuals of Asian and American Indian descent diagnosed with Alzheimer’s survived equally as long as white patients, African Americans and Hispanics, who on average live 40 percent longer with Alzheimer’s, stood out. Researchers are unsure as to why African Americans and Hispanics live longer, but are hopeful that, with the right research, they can determine the factors that create the differences and use them to increase survival among patients of all races. –www.health.usnews.com DELAWARE’S SMALL BUSINESS CENTER CREATES 453 JOBS THE STATE OF Delaware announced November 2 that its Small Business Development Center, located in Newark, has helped create 453 full-time jobs and retain 194 jobs. Statistics were gathered in a study by t he A s s o c i at io n of Sm a l l Business Development Centers, and showed that the center’s clients’ increase in sales were a l mo st 27 p erce nt h ig her than those of other Delaware business professionals. For every $1 spent on the center, t h e s t u dy f o u n d, it wa s leveraged into $5.94 of private and public financing. Delaware recom mends t he center as a positive inf luence on its economy, and 95 percent of the center’s clients said they would recommend the center’s ser vices to ot her busi ness owners. The center is operated j o i n t l y b y t h e D e l aw a r e Economic Development Office, the University of Delaware’s Lerner College of Business and Economics and the U.S. Small Bu s i n e s s Ad m i n i s t r at io n . –www.ledgerdelaware.com HARVARD PROFESSOR CREATES AFRICAN GENEOLOGY WEB SITE HENRY LOUIS GATES JR., director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, launched the genetic testing and genealogical tracing Web site AfricanDNA.com in November. The site is specifically tailored to African Americans, and is the only site so far that offers both family tree research and DNA testing together, and also offers the service of scholars to interpret a user’s genetic and genealog ica l m atc he s. AfricanDNA.com includes two tests, the Maternal Test and the male-useronly Paternal Test, a nd ca n lo cate ever yt h i ng f rom t he geog raph ic regions in which o n e ’s a n c e s t o r s lived to the names of specific tribes that one’s ancestors were a part of. The Web site, with a database comprising more than 165,000 individual test records a nd 65,000 surname records, is well-suited for users wanting to research both recent and distant family connections. –www.biz.yahoo.com 18 BlackMBA • Winter 2007/2008 • www.nbmbaa.org http://www.health.usnews.com http://AfricanDNA.com http://AfricanDNA.com http://www.ledgerdelaware.com http://www.biz.yahoo.com http://www.nbmbaa.org
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