Free health screenings, food and a raffle promise to draw a crowd Sept. 12 at North Carolina Central University.

There’s a reason for all the goodies. Organizers want people to stay and listen — to speakers like Dr. Robert Califf, who heads Duke University’s Clinical Research Institute; Dr. Wendy Brewster, director of women’s health research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and executives from Quintiles Transnational and PPD, two North Carolina companies that help drugmakers test new medicines.

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