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Black women in Chicago are more than twice as likely to die of breast cancer as white women, according to a new report that finds the racial gap is widening at an alarming rate.

The breast-cancer death rate for black women in Chicago was 116 percent higher than that of white women in 2005, the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force said Tuesday, even as white women were diagnosed with the disease more often.(source: Chicago Tribune)

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A new report released in the US finds that the rate of suicide in the country is increasing.

The report finds that the suicide rate is increasing largely in part to middle aged females between 40 and 64 years of age who are killing themselves at an ever increasing rate compared to other demographics. (read more on Chatter Shmatter)

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