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Section: Disparities

Pharmacy Students Switch Places for New Perspectives

Student pharmacists at 2 universities in different communities will learn how the other half practices pharmacy during a new program that will send each group across the country for part of a 9-month experience. The Health Equity Leadership Program is partly an exchange experience, designed to expose each group of students to the unique challenges, […]

July 18, 2018

NAACP Honors Psychologist

Carolyn B. Murray, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded the 2018 Dr. William Montague Cobb award for special achievements in public health at the local level, presented annually by the National Health Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP. The award is given to an […]

July 18, 2018

Study: Why Women Buy Abortion Meds Online

A new study reveals the motivations and experiences of women seeking abortion medication online. The practice can be a response to clinic access barriers in states with and without restrictive abortion laws, or can occur when self-managed abortion is preferred over clinical care, researchers say. Researchers learned that online options may offer either information or […]

July 18, 2018

Study of Boston Hospitals Reveal Gender Disparities

Gender and racial disparities are real in healthcare. Women are paid significantly less than men for the same work. That holds true in IT shops, for physicians as well as executive leadership and a new study focusing on the latter demonstrates that gender and racial scales are tipped toward men perhaps even more than previously […]

July 18, 2018

NIH, Foundation Launch Study of Prostate Cancer in Black Men

The largest coordinated research effort to study biological and non-biological factors associated with aggressive prostate cancer in African-American men has begun. The $26.5 million study is called RESPOND, or Research on Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry: Defining the Roles of Genetics, Tumor Markers, and Social Stress. It will investigate environmental and genetic factors […]

July 18, 2018

Insurers Face Congressional Scrutiny on Maternal Health

More than 30 senators and representatives asked 15 major insurers last week about the pregnancy and postpartum services they cover as part of an effort to reduce racial disparities in maternal health. The effort was led by a trio of Democratic Illinois lawmakers: Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, along with Rep. Robin Kelly. The […]

July 18, 2018

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Study: Transgender Veterans Are As Healthy as Others

A new study finds the mental and physical health of transgender veterans is similar to the health of cisgender veterans, adding more evidence to support the contention that a ban on transgender troops is unnecessary and discriminatory. According to the study, published in Health Affairs, the only difference in the health of transgender and cisgender veterans was […]

July 16, 2018

Roll Back Transgender Protections

Sexually Transmitted Disease Could Be Next Superbug

It may not be the first disease that comes to mind when thinking of sexually-transmitted disease, but there’s an important reason to start paying attention to mycoplasma genitalium, or MG. Experts say MG could lead to a public health emergency if precautions aren’t taken. MG is back in the headlines this week after a U.K. […]

July 16, 2018

Legionnaires’ Disease Breaks Out in Manhattan

An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease has sickened 11 people in Upper Manhattan, 10 of whom have been hospitalized, according to city health officials. Eight people remained in the hospital on Thursday. “This disease is very treatable with antibiotics,” Dr. Mary Bassett, the city’s health commissioner, said in a statement. “I encourage anyone with symptoms of […]

July 16, 2018

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Doctors: Sexual Harassment by Patients Happens on the Job

Sexual harassment can come from many sources, including patients. For this report, we asked physicians about how patients have harassed them or been guilty of misconduct, and how they dealt with it. Medscape’s Sexual Harassment of Physicians: Report 2018, published previously, reveals the current state of physician harassment by other clinicians, medical personnel, and workplace/hospital […]

July 16, 2018

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Talc Cancer Verdict of $4.6 Billion Sends ‘Very Powerful Message’

A St. Louis jury Thursday awarded $550 million in actual damages and $4.14 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson over claims its talcum powder caused ovarian cancer in women who used the company’s products for years. This trial, which began June 4 in St. Louis Circuit Court, had 22 plaintiffs […]

July 16, 2018

Saving Black Babies by Saving the Neighborhood

Black babies are two times more likely to die in their first year of life than white babies. This is a gap that has persisted in our country for decades. Around the country, people are trying in big ways and small to close it. The Castlemont neighborhood in East Oakland is known as a Best Babies […]

July 16, 2018

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Neighborhood May Determine Breast Cancer Outcomes

In 2008, South Shore resident Cheryl King found a lump in her right breast. When she told a health professional at a South Side facility, he dismissed it, saying many African-Americans have lumps in their breasts. In the three months it took to get appointments and tests with other professionals to verify it was cancer, […]

July 11, 2018

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Teen with Rare Kidney Disease Waits for Donor

A Duluth teen with a rare kidney disease is in need of a life-saving transplant donor. At 16-years-old, Ramonie Smith’s schedule revolves around her 11 different medications. “I take them every day, three times a day,” she said. And her 15 hours of kidney dialysis. “Dialysis is in one word, uncomfortable. But I’ve been on […]

July 11, 2018

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Boys Rescued in Thailand Being Treated at Hospital

The first video has emerged showing some of the 12 boys receiving treatment in a hospital after surviving more than two weeks inside a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand. The footage, released by Thai officials Wednesday, shows eight of the boys sitting up in their hospital beds, clad in hospital gowns and face masks. […]

July 11, 2018

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Trump Reversal on Race in Admissions Raises Concerns about Diversity Among Physicians

The Association of American Medical Colleges is raising concerns that the Trump administration’s recent rescission of guidance of consideration of race in university admissions might threaten efforts to improve diversity at medical schools. Earlier this week, the administration announced it would no longer support guidance created under the Obama administration encouraging schools to take a student’s […]

July 9, 2018

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Deaths from Bacterial Disease Spiked after Maria

A Puerto Rico mortality database — which CNN and CPI sued the island’s Demographic Registry to obtain — lists 26 deaths in the six months after Hurricane Maria that were labeled by clinicians as “caused” by leptospirosis, a bacterial illness known to spread through water and soil, especially in the aftermath of storms. That’s more than twice […]

July 9, 2018

Tribe Sues Drug Firms Over Opioid Crisis

SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY, Wash. — The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community has joined the ranks of governmental organizations filing lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies over the opioid crisis. The Skagit Valley Herald reports the lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle names Purdue Pharma, Endo Pharmaceuticals and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a division of Johnson & […]

July 9, 2018

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