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Black Students Less Likely to Get Mental Health Care

A startling new study claims that black and Hispanic children and young adults are half as likely as white students to receive treatment for mental health problems. This study raises racism concerns because the racial and ethnic disparity exists despite the fact that both minorities have a similar rate of mental problems as that of […]

Race Plays a Role in Pain Treatment

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Roslyn Lewis was at work at a dollar store here, pushing a heavy cart of dog food, when something popped in her back: an explosion of pain. At the emergency room the next day, doctors gave her Motrin and sent her home. Her employer paid for a nerve block that helped temporarily, […]

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Did Obamacare Make People Healthier?

Obamacare has provided health insurance to some 20 million people. But are they any better off? This has been the central question as we’ve been watching the complex and expensive health law unfurl. We knew the law was giving people coverage, but information about whether it’s protecting people from debt or helping them become more […]

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Latinos Face Digital Divide In Health Care

When considering Latinos, educators often struggle with how to close the achievement gap. That gap is often defined as a disparity in academic success between native English speakers and those for whom Spanish was their first language. Health communicators have gaps of their own to address: digital divides. These exist both between English- and Spanish-speaking […]

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Skin cancer is deadlier for black patients

Black people are more likely to die from the most deadly type of skin cancer, scientists claim. Although white people have a higher chance of developing skin cancer, patients with skin of colour are less likely to survive. Patients of African-American descent were more likely to be diagnosed with melanoma once it had spread – […]

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Vaccination rates still too low among African-American seniors

More African-American seniors are getting vaccinated as access to health care improves and myths fade, but greater awareness is needed, Dr. Regina Benjamin said last week. In particular, seniors need protection against pneumococcal pneumonia, flu, shingles and tetanus. Benjamin, who practices in Alabama, was the eighteenth United States Surgeon General under President Obama. Read More

Fighting HIV in Miami

MIAMI — The doctor on a mission met the homeless heroin addict who lived under a tree last year at Jackson Health System’s special immunology clinic when both men were struggling to overcome the odds. Jose De Lemos, infected with HIV and hepatitis C from a shared needle, had gone without treatment for almost a […]

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Mayo Study Defining The Role Of Unconscious Doctor Bias In Minority Health Care

Do unconscious biases about race, gender and body shape that students bring with them into medical school carry over when they enter their residencies, thus contributing to the huge and costly disparities in the health outcomes of minorities? That’s what prominent Mayo researcher Michelle Van Ryn is trying to find out in leading a new […]

Rio 2016: Zika epidemic making Brazil a ‘health mess’ for Olympics

With more than 10,000 athletes participating at this year’s Rio Games and an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 people traveling to Brazil for the Olympics, the city is set to see record numbers of people descend on it in the next two weeks. What sort of precautions should all those people take while travelling to an […]

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Black doctors talk about lack of diversity in medical field

Dr. Milton Armstrong still remembers the stares he received more than 20 years ago when he started practicing medicine and would approach patients in his lab coat. “Many of them had never seen a black doctor before, and they were shocked,” Armstrong said during a panel discussion Wednesday at the Medical University of South Carolina. […]

Tooth loss is a big problem for patients with diabetes – Santa Rosa Technology Time

Fewer cases of diabetes are being diagnosed in U.S. adults, according to startling new federal statistics released Tuesday. Diabetes had been climbing for decades, driven by surging obesity rates. In 2009, the number of new cases reached 1.7 million. By last year, it had dropped to 1.4 million. “After so many years of seeing increases, […]

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Heart disease, stroke risk factors may increase in severity before menopause

DALLAS, August 3, 2016 –The severity of key risk factors for heart disease, diabetes and stroke appears to increase more rapidly in the years leading up to menopause, rather than after, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. The study […]

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