Domestic violence hits Black women hard.

  While White women account for the largest number of women killed by males, African-American women were killed at a rate nearly three times higher than for White women, says a recently released study.  The weapon most used by men to kill African American women was a gun,  the Violence Policy Center, a national non-profit organization that conducts research on violence in the United States stated in its annual report, “When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2006 Homicide Data,”  The report says that 551 African-American women were murdered by males in 2006. Of those homicides where a murder weapon could be identified, 305 of the victims were fatally shot and most during the course of an argument. The study stated there were 1,818 race-identified females murdered by males. And while White women accounted for the largest total of those killed-1,208-African American women were killed at a rate nearly three times higher. Read what T.I. and other celebrities are doing about domestic violence at Vital Signs.10,000 Chinese children fall ill from tainted milk. More than 10,000 children remained hospitalized after being sickened in China’s tainted milk scandal, eight of whom were in serious condition, officials said. The Health Ministry said in a statement on its Web site Wednesday that 10,666 children were in hospitals after drinking milk powder contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine, which can lead to kidney stones and possibly life-threatening kidney failure, reports The Associated Press. No new deaths have been recorded, it said. There are no reports of the tainted milk reaching the United States, health officials say. The scandal has so far been blamed for the deaths of four babies and the sickening of more than 54,000 others. But the effects of the scandal continue to be felt, forcing the government to deal with festering health and public relations issues. China’s food exports have increasingly suffered, with more nations issuing import bans. Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said at a meeting of health ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Manila that member nations should strengthen regulations to shield people from potentially harmful imports. Dairy suppliers have been accused of adding melamine – used in products including plastics, paint and adhesives – to watered-down milk to make the product appear rich in protein and fool quality control tests. There had been no standards for the amount of the chemical allowed in food products, but Health Ministry guidelines released Wednesday, have limited the chemical to one part per million for infant formula and 2.5 parts per million for liquid milk, milk powder and food products that contain more than 15 percent milk. Wang Xuening, a ministry official, acknowledged that small amounts of melamine can leech from the environment and packaging into milk and other foods, but said deliberate tainting was forbidden. In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration says its experts have concluded that eating 2.5 parts per million of melamine – a minuscule amount – would not raise health risks, even if a person ate food every day that contained it.

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