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Health Care Providers Support Implicit Bias Training Mandate
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – Health care workers in Michigan will have to get implicit bias training. Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order requiring the training partly because of how COVID-19 is hitting Black communities harder. The training teaches people how to recognize ways they might be biased without knowing it, teaches them ways to […]
July 13, 2020
Disparities
Increasing Diversity in Clinical Trials: What Can Doctors, Regulators, and Patients Do?
Many diseases lack effective treatments, and many researchers worldwide are trying to address these unmet needs. Clinical trials form the cornerstone of new drug approvals, and without the volunteers who participate in clinical trials, this process would not be possible. Yet, clinical trials overwhelmingly fail to represent the demographic diversity of the populations that the […]
July 13, 2020
Other News
In College Students, COVID-19 Has Increased Depression Rate and Raised New Barriers to Mental Healthcare
The COVID-19 pandemic is putting significant stress on college students, many of whom are worried about increasing financial pressures caused by the pandemic and the lack of easily accessible mental healthcare. Those are two of the troubling findings of a survey of more than 18,000 college students on 14 campuses, published July 9 by the […]
July 13, 2020
Other News
University Professors Fear Returning to Campus as Coronavirus Cases Surge Nationwide
Laura Crary, an art history professor at a liberal arts college in South Carolina, is anxious to return to the classroom, so much so that she was prescribed anti-anxiety medications for the first time in her life. “I am 62.5 years old, which means I’m four years from full retirement age, or I’d probably retire […]
July 13, 2020
Disparities
How Should Minority Mental Health Resources Factor Into a School’s Reopening Plans?
As colleges and universities prepare for the fall semester, they have decisions to make about how to keep students safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. But alongside questions about socially distanced classes and dorms, university leaders are asking themselves about other kinds of safety, particularly how to approach mental health resources for students of color, amid […]
July 13, 2020
Disparities
Meharry Is Enlisting Volunteers for COVID-19 Vaccine Trials, Hildreth Is Ready to Roll Up His Sleeve
When Meharry Medical College begins conducting COVID-19 vaccine trials in a few months, it will face a big challenge: how to inspire trust in the Black community that has reason to mistrust such interventions but stands to benefit the most. It is a big “ask,” acknowledges Dr. James E. K. Hildreth, the president and CEO […]
July 13, 2020
Disparities
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland State University Receive $1.2 Million NIH Award to Recruit Underrepresented Minority Ph.D. Students
At a time when the national conversation is focused on narrowing the gap of racial equity, two of Cleveland’s anchor institutions have been awarded grant funding that will help them turn words into action. Cleveland State University and Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute received a five-year, $1.2 million T32 training award from the National Institutes […]
July 6, 2020
Disparities
$3.25 Million Grant Provides Scholarship Opportunities for Disadvantaged Students to Pursue Graduate Degrees in Public Health at Georgia Southern
Nandi A. Marshall, DrPH, and Joseph Telfair, DrPH, of the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH) at Georgia Southern University have received a 2020-25 U.S. Department of Health Resources and Service Administration grant valued at $3.25 million to support the Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS) program. Each year, $650,000 will be available to offer […]
July 6, 2020
Other News
Alabama College Students Blasted for Trying to Get the Coronavirus on Purpose
Groups of college students in Alabama have been throwing coronavirus parties and taking bets as to who will test positive for COVID-19 first. The story admittedly sounds outrageous and would easily be dismissed as “fake news” but for the fact that it’s been confirmed by a number of Tuscaloosa city officials. Read More
July 6, 2020
Disparities
Black Patients Fare Worse After Angioplasty
MONDAY, July 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Even after undergoing the artery-clearing procedure angioplasty, Black patients with heart disease are more likely than whites to suffer a heart attack or die within the next several years. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of 10 clinical trials: On balance, both Black and Hispanic patients fared […]
July 6, 2020
Mental Health
The Effects of COVID-19 on the Mental Health of Indigenous Communities
Since the pandemic started, it has become increasingly clear that COVID-19 affects certain communities to a disproportionate degree. Race, biological sex, age, and socioeconomic status are some of the factors that can amplify the impact of the new coronavirus. At Medical News Today, we’ve started to examine the racialized impact of this global pandemic, and […]
July 6, 2020
Other News
College of Medicine Physician Assistant Program Partners for Early Acceptance
HERSHEY, Pa. — Penn State College of Medicine is creating a new partnership with Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and Hampton University in Virginia that provides their undergraduate students early acceptance into its physician assistant program. Students at the two universities can apply early ― during their junior year in undergraduate studies ― to the physician […]
July 6, 2020
Other News
UK Faculty, Students Refurbish and Provide Medical Equipment in Rural Kentucky
LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 2, 2020) — Roughly one in seven Americans live with a disability that impacts daily mobility. The average cost of a wheelchair ranges from $500 to $2,000 without insurance, seriously curbing access to this essential equipment for patients who lack proper coverage. The University of Kentucky’s Center of Excellence in Rural Health […]
July 6, 2020
Other News
Almost One-Third of Black Americans Know Someone Who Died of Covid-19, Survey Shows
Nearly 1 in 3 black Americans know someone personally who has died of covid-19, far exceeding their white counterparts, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll that underscores the coronavirus pandemic’s profoundly disparate impact. The nationwide survey finds that 31 percent of black adults say they know someone firsthand who has been killed by the virus, compared with 17 percent of adults […]
June 29, 2020
Other News
Black Medicare Patients With COVID-19 Nearly Four Times As Likely to End Up In Hospital
New federal data reinforces the stark racial disparities that have appeared with COVID-19: According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Black Americans enrolled in Medicare were hospitalized with the disease at rates nearly four times higher than their white counterparts. Disparities were also striking among Hispanics and Asian Americans. Hispanics were more than […]
June 29, 2020
Other News
Covid-19 Vaccine Research Must Involve Black and Latinx Participants. Here Are Four Ways to Make That Happen
The development of a Covid-19 vaccine is progressing at an incredible pace, breaking down barriers to the invention, manufacture, and testing of potential vaccine candidates. The Department of Health and Human Services says it aims to have “substantial quantities of a safe and effective vaccine available for Americans by January 2021.” To achieve this goal, each of […]
June 29, 2020
Other News
Morehouse School of Medicine Gets $40 Million Grant to Fight COVID-19
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday it is providing a $40 million grant to Atlanta’s Morehouse School of Medicine to fight COVID-19 in racially-diverse, rural and socially vulnerable communities. The medical school will work with the HHS Office of Minority Health on a three-year project with community-based organizations across the nation […]
June 29, 2020
Other News
What Black Scientists Want From Colleagues and Their Institutions
Black academics are calling out racism in science, recounting behaviours ranging from overt acts to micro-aggressions, using social-media hashtags such as #BlackInTheIvory. A study in April highlighted how students from under-represented groups innovate more than their white male counterparts do — but receive few to no career benefits from their discoveries because their contributions are often overlooked. […]
June 29, 2020
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