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Detroit 's poverty and prospects

Quinn Klinefelter did a report on Detroit 's poverty and prospects featuring remarks from Robin Boyle, professor of Urban Planning at WSU. Boyle said, "It took a hurricane and a flood, to show Americans just how separate we are," referring to the gap between the rich and the poor that is so evident in cities like Detroit and New Orleans . He said Detroit was just a larger version of New Orleans , plagued with the same problems of high unemployment, lack of public transportation and racial animus. Klinefelter also interviewed a homeless man, a former auto worker, who said that Detroit was not going to see a return to high industrial times, and that the future would probably be divided between those in very high-tech and very low-tech jobs. He called for a return to the public works projects of the depression to pull Detroit out of its economic slump.

Poor diet hurts black breast cancer patients

Racial health disparities are an emerging area of study in medicine. On Monday and Tuesday, experts gathered at Wayne State University for a conference on the issue. Suggestions included training more minority physicians; referring patients to specialists for underdiagnosed problems like heart failure, and creation of networks like the Healthier Black Elders program, a Detroit program that hooks up minority patients with community resources and clinical studies. It is collaboration between WSU and the University of Michigan .

Michigan speaks out of both sides of its mouth when it comes to higher education

Proof that Michigan is fast pricing its residents out of the higher education market comes in a survey of young adults that found less than one-third were able to pay for college without outside help. Sixty-eight percent said their families lacked the financial resources to foot the tuition bill without scholarships, grants and, mostly, loans. Half left college with their bills unpaid. Does this sound like a state committed to a crash goal of doubling the number of college graduates in 10 years? Michigan speaks out of both sides of its mouth when it comes to higher education. While declaring it needs more college grads, state policies and university pricing work against achieving that goal. The high cost of college is a major barrier to college attendance, according to the EPIC-MRA survey of 18- to 30-year-olds commissioned by Your Child, a coalition dedicated to improving college graduation rates in Michigan .

For kids to succeed, parents must insist on college

Kids with parents who insist they continue their education beyond high school are the most likely to attain a four-year degree, a new survey concludes. The September telephone survey released Monday of 1,126 Michigan residents aged 18 to 30, also found that those with more education say they are more optimistic about the future, happier and earn more pay. Of those who didn\'t pursue education after high school, 72 percent said they regretted it. Your Child, a Michigan coalition of education and family groups, including the Michigan Education Association, the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan and Michigan Virtual University , commissioned the $80,000 survey by EPIC-MRA, a Lansing polling firm.

Black women face varying cancer risks

African-American women are less likely than white women to get cancer, but more likely to die of it often because other diseases and conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure complicate treatment. Dr. Michael Simon, professor of oncology at Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State says socio-economics is partly to blame. African Americans are 13 percent of the U.S. population but 24 percent of the nation's poor. They have limited access to high quality health care and are often diagnosed in the later stages of cancer.

Kelley honored as Pathfinder

Wayne State University School of Medicine announced plans to honor Dr. Tina Kelley posthumously along with six other medical professionals who have worked to make a difference in the health care field. "Her time at the School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Michigan made a lasting impression on those around her," said Robert R. Frank, M.D., WSU School of Medicine interim dean. "Her commitment to pediatrics and her vivacious outlook represented the foundations on which this award was established."

Plenty of opportunities at University Center

A letter from a reader takes issue with the " Macomb University " editorial calling for the creation of a four-year degree university in Macomb County . The writer, Cheryl L. Sypniewski, cites the University Center and its various off-campus sites available to Macomb County students including Wayne State University . "Although there may be a certain level of prestige and economic benefits derived from having a university located in Macomb ," Sypniewski writes, "residents who want a bachelor's degree do not have to commute or move out of the county to achieve that goal."

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