http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/5736 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/symposium-addresses-disparities-native-american-health-care <!--paging_filter--><p>Sunshine Dwojak, a fourth-year <a title="" href="http://www.hms.harvard.edu">Harvard Medical School</a> student, was 26 when her mother died of heart disease, leaving behind three children.&nbsp; Dwojak’s mother was 48.</p><p>“My grandmother said our family ‘just wasn’t lucky,’ and my aunt said that ‘longevity doesn’t run in our family,’” Dwojak said.&nbsp; Growing up, she saw many of her family members suffer from mental illness, heart disease, diabetes, and substance abuse.</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/symposium-addresses-disparities-native-american-health-care">read more</a></p> Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:46:01 -0500 404132862 7699 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu