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Section: Disparities

Wisconsin University to Offer Course on Treating Inmates

MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health will offer a new course to teach future doctors how to treat a growing prison population and former convicts once they are released. The new course will be offered this fall, Wisconsin Public Radio reported. The university is recruiting up to 20 […]

August 20, 2018

Noir Elite: Promoting Culturally Adapted Fitness

Each week, hundreds of women (and men, too) join fitness duo Valerie Fleurantin and Chaz Sandifer for what has become a movement of sisterhood, healing and community. Together, the duo is Noir Elite Fitness (NEF), a start-up health and wellness powerhouse dedicated to transforming how women – especially Black women – view fitness. Nearly four […]

August 15, 2018

Baylor Participates in Prostate Study

Baylor College of Medicine is among a national network of health care institutions and collaboratives recruiting for what is described as the largest coordinated research study of aggressive prostate cancer in African American men. An estimated 30,000 African American men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2016, according to the American Cancer Society’s most recent […]

August 15, 2018

Champion for Health Equity Resigns

City Health Commissioner Mary Bassett is stepping down from her position with the de Blasio administration in favor of an opportunity with Harvard University. Bassett has worked to address Legionnaires’ disease in multiple buildings throughout Queens and recently helped make NYCHA housing smoke-free in July. Her resignation leaves First Deputy Commissioner Oxiris Barbot in charge […]

August 15, 2018

Effort to Diversify Research Raises Thorny Questions

It’s a summer Saturday morning and more than 160 people are packed into a windowless classroom beneath a Lower Manhattan street. Organizers had distributed the ad for the three-hour event just three weeks earlier. The goal was to gather people who identify as “Asian” on the U.S. census—and nearly everyone in the overcapacity room fits […]

August 15, 2018

CVS Launches Pilot for Virtual Care

More care is moving to retail settings, and virtual offerings are increasingly becoming part and parcel of that experience. Last month, Rite Aid inked a letter of intent with InTouch Health to bring virtual care to remote areas. The companies also plan to offer the services at alternative care sites, such as Rite Aid pharmacies. […]

August 13, 2018

Hotel’s Guests May Have Been Exposed to Legionnaires’

The state Department of Health is warning that guests at the Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel between July 16 and Aug. 1 and were near the pool and spa may have been exposed to Legionella bacteria. Legionella bacteria can cause a serious type of pneumonia called Legionnaires’ disease. The bacteria can also cause Pontiac fever Read […]

August 13, 2018

Report: Military Base Water May Be Cause of Cancers

OSCODA, Mich. — A federal health agency says contaminated drinking water might have caused cancer and other chronic disease among veterans and families who lived at a former northern Michigan military base. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry released last month a draft report about the Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, Michigan, […]

August 13, 2018

Study: Immigrants Use Healthcare System Less than Americans Do

Slightly over half of Americans — 52 percent — believe that immigrants are a financial burden on the U.S. healthcare system, and two thirds believe that undocumented immigrants should not be eligible for social services provided by state and local governments. A study published Thursday in the International Journal of Health Services finds that immigrants […]

August 13, 2018

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When Doctors Don’t Listen to Women

After a while, the true-life horror stories women tell about their struggles to get reproductive health care start to bleed together. They almost always feature some variation on the same character: the doctor who waves a hand and says, “You’ll be fine,” or “That’s just in your head,” or “Take a Tylenol.” They follow an […]

August 13, 2018

An AIDS Solution for Africa Comes out of Israel

Circumcision – dating back to Abraham – is the oldest surgical procedure in the world. It has always represented entry to membership in the Jewish people among males, whether in infancy or later in life. Yet, an Israeli circumcision initiative that has nothing to do with religious identification and is performed on teens and men […]

August 8, 2018

Pregnant Women Advised to Get Group B Strep Vaccine

If you are pregnant, talk with your doctor or midwife about getting a GBS test. It doesn’t matter if you did or did not have this type of bacteria before; each pregnancy is different. CDC recommends getting it when you are 35–37 weeks pregnant. The test is an easy swab of the vagina and rectum […]

August 8, 2018

Tick-borne Diseases on the Rise, NIH Says

The incidence of tickborne infections in the United States has risen significantly within the past decade. It is imperative, therefore, that public health officials and scientists build a robust understanding of pathogenesis, design improved diagnostics, and develop preventive vaccines, according to a new commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine from leading scientists at […]

August 8, 2018

CDC: Black Lung Patients Dying Earlier

Coal workers who died of black lung disease in recent years lost more years of life relative to their life expectancies than workers dying of the occupational disorder just a few decades ago, the CDC reports. The study findings, published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, are consistent with a reported increase in a particularly […]

August 8, 2018

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NIH: Help for First-Time Moms Improves Babies’ BMI

An intervention designed to help first-time mothers effectively respond to their infant’s cues for hunger, sleep, feeding, and other infant behaviors significantly improved the body mass index (BMI) z-scores of the child through age 3 years compared with the control group. Results of the study, call Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Health Trajectories (INSIGHT), […]

August 8, 2018

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Immigrants Might Skip Medical Care to Avoid Hassle

Thousands of immigrant families across Minnesota would be pressured to drop out of government-funded health and social service programs if the Trump administration enacts a proposed change to federal immigration policy, state and local health officials warned. Under the proposal, a legal immigrant could be denied a temporary visa or permanent residency through a green […]

August 6, 2018

Penn Study Suggests Way to Enhance Inclusion in Health Care

The importance of an inclusive workforce culture in health care is key to advancing scientific inquiry, improving the quality of care, and optimizing patient satisfaction. In fact, diverse student bodies and workforces have been shown to improve everyone’s cultural effectiveness and address inequities in health care delivery. Now, inclusiveness of workplace culture can be measured […]

August 6, 2018

Research: Lung Cancer Guidelines Don’t Fit Black, Latino Patients

Data from a lung cancer screening program at the University of Illinois at Chicago provides evidence that national lung cancer screening guidelines, which were developed based on the National Lung Screening Trial, or NLST, in 2011 and recommend screening based on age and smoking history, may be insufficient for individuals in underrepresented communities. The UIC […]

August 6, 2018