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Date Added: July 03, 2008 01:56:02 AM
The California Legislative Black Caucus Foundation and Assembly member Sandre Swanson (D) on Friday sponsored a health care summit that focused on ways to address diabetes and obesity, particularly in minority communities, the Contra Costa Times reports. At the summit held in Oakland, Calif.

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