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Section: Disparities
Disparities
California Woman Lobbies for Safer Nail Salons
OAKLAND, Calif. — It was the swag-bags that convinced community health organizer Julia Liou to redraw the battle plan in a fight to reduce the hazardous chemical exposures of nail-salon workers, most of them low-paid Asian immigrant women. In 2005, Liou watched at California’s state Capitol as dozens of lobbyists gave away bags of lipsticks […]
March 28, 2017
Disparities
Brigham Young Students Discuss Mental Health
PROVO, Utah — It’s not unusual for students at Brigham Young University to blame themselves for their mental health struggles. “Sometimes, the conception is, ‘I wouldn’t be struggling with my mental health if I were praying harder, or if I were doing everything perfectly the way I was supposed to be doing,’” Brooke Adams, a […]
March 28, 2017
Disparities
U.S. Infant Mortality Dips 15%
(CNN) — Infant mortality rates have reached new lows, according to a report released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday. From 2005 to 2014, the infant mortality rate in the US dropped 15%, from 6.86 infant deaths per 1,000 live births to 5.82. Sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, declined […]
March 23, 2017
Disparities
Rural Hospitals Fear Healthcare Bill’s Effects
CLAXTON, Ga. — Talmadge Yarbrough had just sat down at his desk and opened a box of pecans when he let out a gasp that could have been his last breath. He’d gone into cardiac arrest in his office, a co-worker called 911, and an ambulance drove him two miles to the small hospital that […]
March 23, 2017
Disparities
UA Panel Asks for Transgender Coverage
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A University of Arkansas benefits committee that advocates for faculty and staff is asking that gender-transition treatments be reinstated in the employee health care plan. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the request in a March 7 letter comes after the university suspended the coverage offered briefly earlier this year. The university oversees a […]
March 21, 2017
Disparities
Asthma Study Yields Data Using Smartphones
A research team at Mount Sinai Hospital showed its possible to produce reliable health data using smartphones, The Verge reported. In the study, published Monday in Nature Biotechnology, the researchers used Apple ResearchKit to create an iOS app to assess asthmatics’ symptoms, presumed triggers and medication adherence and compared the results with existing patient studies. […]
March 21, 2017
Disparities
Sioux’s Turnips May Block Staph Infection
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — For the not so many people who have consumed them, Psoralea esculenta, or prairie turnips, are not considered to be the stuff of fine dining. But the turnip, which is grown in Siouxland and the upper Great Plains, could have a key role ahead in inhibiting the growth of disease-causing bacteria. […]
March 15, 2017
Disparities
Study: African Gene Variant Tied to Obesity
An international team of researchers has conducted the first study of its kind to look at the genomic underpinnings of obesity in continental Africans and African-Americans. They discovered that approximately 1 percent of West Africans, African-Americans and others of African ancestry carry a genomic variant that increases their risk of obesity, a finding that provides […]
March 15, 2017
Disparities
Students Build 3D-Printed Prosthetics for Kids
CINCINNATI — College and high school students in the Cincinnati area are using 3D printing to solve medical problems in the community. A group of biomedical engineering students at the University of Cincinnati started a student organization in 2015 to build inexpensive prosthetic hands for local kids. Inspired by the global organization e-Nable, Enable UC […]
March 8, 2017
Disparities
Study: Telehealth Use Drives Up Costs
Direct-to-consumer telehealth services make care more convenient by giving patients with minor illnesses 24-7 access to a physician, but they don’t necessarily reduce costs by substituting for office and emergency room (ER) visits, a new study published in Health Affairs suggests. Researchers at RAND Corporation looked at three years of claims data and found that […]
March 8, 2017
Disparities
Study Finds Ways to Prevent Alcohol Use
Community-based and individual-level prevention strategies are effective ways to reduce alcohol use among American Indian and other youth living in rural communities, according to a new study supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The National Institute on Drug Abuse also provided support for […]
March 6, 2017
Disparities
Patrick Kennedy Wants to Protect Mental Health Coverage
After his father, Ted Kennedy, passed away, former U.S. Congressman Patrick Kennedy chose not to run for re-election in the House of Representatives so he could devote more energy to the issue that he cares most deeply about: changing the way we talk about and treat millions of Americans who suffer from mental health disorders. […]
March 1, 2017
Disparities
NIH: Brain Scans Detect Autism Earlier
For children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), early diagnosis is critical to allow for possible interventions at a time when the brain is most amenable to change. But that’s been tough to implement for a simple reason: the symptoms of ASD, such as communication difficulties, social deficits, and repetitive behaviors, often do not show up […]
February 27, 2017
Disparities
Biotech Firm May Hold Key to Long, Healthy Life
As Trump shakes up the White House, pharma and biotech are on edge. While the media talks about Obamacare, it turns out that Trump’s new FDA chief could have a bigger impact on health care and associated markets. The story here is that a company in liberal Northern California may have the most to gain […]
February 27, 2017
Disparities
Research Will Focus on Black Cancer Survivors
The largest study to date of African-American cancer survivors in the United States is underway. The Detroit Research on Cancer Survivors (ROCS) study, which will include 5,560 cancer survivors, will support a broad research agenda looking at the major factors affecting cancer progression, recurrence, mortality, and quality of life among African-American cancer survivors. The effort […]
February 27, 2017
Disparities
Refugees’s Needs Draw Doctors to Kansas
GARDEN CITY, Kan. — Dr. Scarlett Gard’s passion for humanitarian work took her to India and Bangladesh. After finishing her medical training, she set off for a place she knew had a diverse population in need of doctors: western Kansas. Gard came to the meatpacking town of Garden City to work with Somali immigrants — […]
February 22, 2017
Disparities
Henrietta Lacks’ Family Seeks Compensation
BALTIMORE— The son of Henrietta Lacks is seeking compensation for the unauthorized use of his mother’s cells in scientific research since her 1951 death, as detailed in a best-selling book. The Baltimore Sun reports that Lawrence Lacks, his son and daughter-in-law say they plan to file a lawsuit against Johns Hopkins University in coming weeks. […]
February 20, 2017
Disparities
$125 M Gift Supports Native American Pharmacy Students
In small towns across Montana, pharmacists do much more than just dispense medications. They serve as a vital health care resource for their patients, providing important health screenings and education for conditions like diabetes and asthma. To grow the number of community pharmacists in Montana and across the United States, The ALSAM Foundation created the […]
February 15, 2017
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