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Urban-Rural Disparities Disappear in Clinical Trials

Rural-urban disparities in cancer outcomes recede for patients enrolled in clinical trials, a new study in JAMA Network Open finds. The study’s authors explain that patients who participate in clinical trials “are uniformly staged, treated, and followed up under protocol-specific guidelines, reducing the potential influences of inconsistent pretreatment evaluation, care, and posttreatment surveillance.” Read More

Ethnically Diverse South Florida to Play Role In National Health Study

South Florida’s ethnic diversity will play a key role in an ambitious five-year medical research effort aimed at making treatments and drugs more effective by tailoring them to the lifestyles, genetics and environment of individual patients. Led by the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine and funded by a $60 million grant from the […]

CDC Reports Surge in STDs

New cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis spiked nearly 10 percent in 2017, continuing a four-year trend of rising sexually transmitted diseases fueled by a lack of awareness and changing sexual behavior, federal health officials said Tuesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 2.29 million new cases of these three common yet treatable […]

Report: Enlisted Women Show More Adverse Mental Effects Than Officers After Injury

Within a year after suffering a combat-related injury in Iraq or Afghanistan, 40 percent of military women were diagnosed with a mental health condition, according to a new study. Of particular concern is that enlisted women were more likely to have a diagnosis of a mental health disorder and had “significantly lower quality of life” […]

Glioblastoma: McCain’s Disease ‘Complex’ and ‘Aggressive’

Glioblastoma has been described as an “aggressive” form of brain cancer that usually occurs in adults. McCain, an Arizona Republican who served in the Senate for more than 30 years, was diagnosed with the disease in July 2017 and succumbed to it 13 months later. Read More

The Cost of Obesity

The relationship between excess weight and the risk of illness has been known since the time of the ancient Greeks. Yet, the epidemic of obesity experienced in the United States and other Western cultures in the last few decades has made this relationship more clear. Read More

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Legionnaires’ Outbreak Reported in N.H. Neighborhood

HAMPTON — An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease has infected four people with the potentially serious bacterial pneumonia, state health officials announced Saturday. All of the cases of the Legionella pneumonia are centered around the area of Ashworth Avenue, between Island Path and H Street, in Hampton Beach, officials said. Read More

Doctors Running on Democratic Ticket Talk Health Care

Rob Davidson, an emergency physician from western Michigan, had never considered running for Congress. Then came the town hall meeting in early 2017 that Davidson decided to attend. The 46-year-old Democrat found himself going one-on-one with Rep. Bill Huizenga, his Republican congressman for six years. “I told him about my patients,” Davidson recalled. “I see, […]

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Study: Any Alcohol Consumption Is Bad for You

WHEN it comes to drinking alcohol, the healthiest thing to do is abstain entirely, according to a large, wide-ranging report published by scientists. Alcohol led to 2.8 million premature deaths in 2016; it was the leading risk factor for premature mortality and disability in the 15 to 49 age group, accounting for 20 per cent […]

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Meharry: Ending Affirmative Action Will Mean Fewer Black Doctors in Poor Areas

The leader of Nashville’s historically black medical college said Friday that a Trump Administration decision to roll-back Obama-era affirmative action policies will trigger a domino effect in higher education that will ultimately lead to fewer doctors in many low-income, minority neighborhoods. Dr. James Hildreth, president of Meharry Medical College, said the decision will exacerbate a […]

Enhance Racial Disparities Training, Say Primary Care Residents

Disparities in both health status and access to health care in the United States are widely acknowledged problems that have received much attention from the AAFP and a host of other medical professional organizations across the country. The timeliness of the topic increases the value of recently published research(link.springer.com) that explores primary care residents’ awareness […]

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Report Hidden for Years: Almost Every Native American Woman Victim of Sexual Violence

In 2010, a Seattle-based survey co-produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Urban Indian Health Institute found that nearly every Native woman had been raped or coerced into sex at least once in their lives. You may be wondering why a survey that’s eight years out of date is only […]

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