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Black women with breast cancer were found to be three times more likely than their white counterparts to delay treatment for more than 90 days—a time delay associated with increased deaths from the disease, according to a new study led by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-breast-cancer-treatment-varies-patient-doctor.html Cancer Tue, 07 May 2013 12:37:05 EST news287149018 Black women with breast cancer had significantly worse survival compared with other racial and ethnic groups across cancer subtypes, which suggests that the survival differences are not solely attributable to the fact that black women are more frequently diagnosed with less treatable breast cancer subtypes, according to data presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013, held in Washington, D.C., April 6-10. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-black-women-worse-breast-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:40:14 EST news284629208 Pregnant women who experienced financial, emotional, or other personal stress in the year before their delivery had an increased chance of having a stillbirth, say researchers who conducted a National Institutes of Health network study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-stressful-life-events-stillbirth.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:51:52 EST news283603872 Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues in Canada have published study results focused on black women younger than 50, a population disproportionately afflicted with and dying from early-onset breast cancer compared to their white counterparts. The research published in the Jan. 16 issue of The Breast Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-genetic-strategies-young-black-female.html Cancer Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:47:54 EST news283085136 The number of women aware that heart disease is the leading cause of death has nearly doubled in the last 15 years, but that knowledge still lags in minorities and younger women, according to a new study in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-room-women-heart-disease-awareness.html Cardiology Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:57:22 EST news280493816 (HealthDay)—While more black mothers are breast-feeding their babies, they're still far less likely to do so than Hispanic or white women, according to a new U.S. study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-breast-feeding-common-black-babies-cdc.html Health Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:20:01 EST news279472222 Young urban black women who are exposed to severe abuse within their families are much more likely to be victims of dating violence, according to a study led by a Michigan State University researcher. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-severe-abuse-home-linked-dating.html Health Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:06:40 EST news278071592 Three University of Kentucky (UK) sociologists have co-authored a study that helps to fill a gap in our understanding of suicide risk among African-American women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-bridge-gap-suicide-african-american-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:52:14 EST news274618314 (HealthDay)—Black women with breast cancer are less likely than their white peers to benefit from improved surgical techniques used to treat their disease, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-racial-disparities-breast-cancer-treatments.html Cancer Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:40:51 EST news273944438 (HealthDay)—With earlier detection and better treatment, the mortality rate from breast cancer has fallen over the last two decades; black women, however, still die from the disease at a disproportionately higher rate than white women, according to research published in the Nov. 13 early-release issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-cdc-breast-cancer-mortality-higher.html Cancer Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:40:02 EST news272174661 A new Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) study has found that improving Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates in black women may require culturally sensitive approaches that address ethnic-specific barriers. The findings are published online in the November/December issue of the journal, Women's Health Issues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-subgroups-black-women-uptake-hpv.html Health Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:31:20 EST news272035872 (HealthDay)—Investigators have found preliminary evidence that eating red meat and poultry seems to boost the risk of breast cancer in white women—but not black women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-meat-breast-cancer-whites.html Cancer Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:40:02 EST news271078311 Non-Hispanic black women diagnosed with breast cancer, specifically those with estrogen receptor-positive tumors, are at a significantly increased risk for breast cancer death compared with non-Hispanic white women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-breast-cancer-death-black-women.html Cancer Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:20:01 EST news270630716 Regular mammography screening can help narrow the breast cancer gap between black and white women, according to a retrospective study published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment in August. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-disparity-breast-cancer-black-white.html Cancer Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:24:06 EST news267805439 (Medical Xpress)—The MacArthur Research Network on Aging, chaired by Dr. John W. Rowe, has published its latest research showing a widening gap in life expectancy between Americans with higher education and those without a high school diploma. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-lack-widens-gap-life.html Health Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:27:03 EST news267776568 (Medical Xpress)—Scientists at The University of Nottingham have identified a protein which could help predict survival outcomes for women with the most aggressive forms of breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-thousands-women-aggressive-breast-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:44:56 EST news266219086 (HealthDay) -- For women with breast cancer, disease characteristics correlate significantly with chemotherapy receipt, with no indication of racial barriers to treatment, according to a study published online Aug. 6 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-links-age-chemo.html Cancer Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:40:01 EST news263794619 Despite advances in health care and increases in life expectancy overall, Americans with less than a high school education have life expectancies similar to adults in the 1950s and 1960s. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-socioeconomic-benefits-equals-longer-life.html Health Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:00:05 EST news263487470 More White women are diagnosed with breast cancer than Black women, yet Black women with breast cancer have a higher mortality rate. One potential explanation for this disparity is delayed treatment, perhaps due to differences in socioeconomic status and access to care. However, a new study in Ethnicity & Disease finds that some disparities persist even when Black and White patients have the same Medicaid health insurance and similar economic status. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-racial-disparities-breast-cancer-treatment.html Cancer Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:36:16 EST news262600571 (HealthDay) -- Black women without diabetes lost about 10 percent less weight than white women after having a weight-loss procedure called gastric bypass surgery, but having diabetes helped increase their weight loss, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-role-success-weight-loss-surgery.html Surgery Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:40:01 EST news259405514 (HealthDay) -- The gap in life expectancy between U.S. whites and blacks narrowed between 2003 and 2008, yet significant disparities remain, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-lifespan-gap-whites-blacks.html Health Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:31:26 EST news258132678 A new study conducted by researchers from Boston University has found that sarcoidosis accounts for 25 percent of all deaths among women in the Black Women's Health Study who have the disease. The study is the largest epidemiologic study to date to specifically address mortality in black females with sarcoidosis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-reveals-sarcoidosis-related-mortality-black-women.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 22 May 2012 14:00:02 EST news256904692 (HealthDay) -- Too many American women still smoke during their pregnancies, a new report finds, and rates of such smoking vary widely depending on race. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-women-pregnancy.html Health Thu, 10 May 2012 18:20:01 EST news255885126 While white men are expected to be assertive and aggressive leaders, black men and white women are often penalized for that kind of behavior in the workplace. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, looks at another group: black women. They find that, rather than being viewed as a combination of black men and white women, black women also seem to be expected to act assertively. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-black-women-leaders-assertiveness-workplace.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:30:03 EST news254058379 (HealthDay) -- The perception of care for women living in inner cities with newly diagnosed, early-stage breast cancer is dependent, in large part, on factors other than the actual quality of care provided, including the quality of the process of getting care, trust in the physician, and perceptions of racism, according to research published online April 9 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-perception-breast-cancer-differs-actual.html Cancer Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:50:01 EST news253365741 (HealthDay) -- Most people in the United States are getting adequate nutrition, but some groups experience lower levels of vital nutrients than that which is recommended for good health, according to the Second National Report on Biochemical Indicators of Diet and Nutrition released April 2 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-americans-adequate-amounts-vitamins-nutrients.html Health Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:30:01 EST news252644515 Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-blacks-cervical-cancer-virus.html Cancer Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:37:12 EST news252502616 (HealthDay) -- Women with ovarian cancer who are black, either uninsured or Medicare recipients, or who have annual incomes of less than $35,000 are more likely to receive poorer-quality care, a new study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-black-women-uninsured-worse-ovarian.html Cancer Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:31:48 EST news252081099 Study results released today indicate that the HIV incidence rate for US women living in areas hardest hit by the epidemic is much higher than the overall estimated incidence rate in the US for black adolescent and adult women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-hiv-black-women-higher-previously.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:35:48 EST news250490141 There has not been significant change in the prevalence of obesity in the U.S., with data from 2009-2010 indicating that about one in three adults and one in six children and teens are obese; however, there have been increases in certain demographics, according to two studies being published by JAMA. The studies are being released online first because of their public health importance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-prevalence-obesity-high-years.html Health Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:32:16 EST news246033126