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Scientific Hero: Dr. James E. K. Hildreth

Valerie Montgomery Rice, Kermit G. Payne
pp. 1-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0004
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Making a Difference: Steps to Develop a Research Pipeline in Puerto Rico

Kenira J. Thompson, Eddy Ríos-Olivares
pp. 4-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0007
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Different Levels of HIV DNA Copy Numbers in Cerebrospinal Fluid Cellular Subsets

Melissa Agsalda-Garcia, Bruce Shiramizu, Loyda Melendez, Marines Plaud, Chin-Yuan Liang, Valerie Wojna
pp. 8-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0010
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Reproductive Health Assessment After Disasters: Embedding a Toolkit within the Disaster Management Workforce to Address Health Inequalities among Gulf-Coast Women

Farah A. Arosemena, Laila Fox, Maureen Y. Lichtveld
pp. 17-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0013
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Hepatitis-C Multimedia Prevention Program in Poor Hispanic HIV-Infected Injecting drug users: Six Months after Intervention

Angel M. Mayor, Diana M. Fernández, Héctor M. Colón, James C. Thomas, Christine Miranda, Robert F. Hunter-Mellado
pp. 29-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0015
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Importance of Vitamin D and Vitamin D levels Status in Puerto Ricans

Edu B. Suárez-Martínez, Cynthia M. Pérez, Sofia K. Cruz, Shayan Khorsandi, Camile Chardón, Leon Ferder
pp. 38-47
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0000
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A Community-Based Pilot Study of a Diabetes Pharmacist Intervention in Latinos: Impact on Weight and Hemoglobin A1c

Ana Maria Castejón, Jose Luis Calderón, Alexandra Perez, Claudia Millar, Jane McLaughlin-Middlekauff, Nisaratana Sangasubana, Goar Alvarez, Lillian Arce, Patrick Hardigan, Silvia E. Rabionet
pp. 48-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0003
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Fractionated Ocimum gratissimum Leaf Extract Inhibit Prostate Cancer (PC3·AR) Cells Growth by Reducing Androgen Receptor and Survivin Levels

Stephen I.N. Ekunwe, Sakeli M. Hall, Xuan Luo, Hengshan Wang, Gregorio B. Begonia
pp. 61-69
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0006
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Apolipoprotein E4 Prevents Growth of Malaria at the Intraerythrocyte Stage: Implications For Diff erences in Racial Susceptibility to Alzheimer’s Disease

Hisashi Fujioka, Clyde F. Phelix, Robert P. Friedland, Xiongwei Zhu, Elizabeth A. Perry, Rudy J. Castellani, George Perry
pp. 70-78
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0009
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Prevalence and Correlates of Depressive Symptoms and Resiliency among African American Women in a Community-Based Primary Health Care Center

Kisha B. Holden, L. Dianne Bradford, Stephanie P. Hall, Allyson S. Belton
pp. 79-93
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0012
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HIV/AIDS in the Puerto Rican Elderly: Immunological Changes between Gender and Body Mass Index

Gerónimo Maldonado-Martínez, Diana M. Fernández-Santos, Eddy Ríos-Olivares, Angel M. Mayor, Robert F. Hunter-Mellado
pp. 94-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0014
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Health Empowerment Technologies (HET): Building a Web-Based Tool to Empower Older African American Patient-Doctor Relationships

Greta Berry Winbush, Leon McDougle, Lynda Labranche, Sidra Khan, Sophia Tolliver
pp. 106-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0017
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Acrolein-Induced Oxidative Stress In NAD(P)H Oxidase Subunit gp91phox Knock-Out Mice and its modulation of NFκB and CD36

Zivar Yousefipour, Chelsea Zhang, Mahdieh Monfareed, James Walker, Mohammad Newaz
pp. 118-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0002
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Factors Associated with Time-to-Treatment of Prostate Cancer in Florida

Hong Xiao, Fei Tan, Pierre Goovaerts, Georges Adunlin, Askal Ali, Youjie Huang, Clement K. Gwede
pp. 132-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0005
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Sickle Cell Anemia: The Impact of Discovery, Politics, and Business

Lai-Hua Xie, Angelia A. Doye, Eric Conley, Judith K Gwathmey
pp. 147-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0008
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Eliminating Health Disparities in Women’s Health in Puerto Rico

Delia M. Camacho-Feliciano, Edna Pacheco-Acosta, Beatríz Morales, Josefina Romaguera
pp. 159-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0011
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Preface

John Ruffin
pp. viii-ix
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0016
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Guest Editors’ Message

Emma Fernández-Repollet, José A. Torres
pp. x-xi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2014.0001
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