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(HealthDay)—The rate of premature births has declined to 11.7 percent, the lowest rate in a decade, according to the March of Dimes 2012 Premature Birth Report Card. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-states-premature-birth-decline.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:05:03 EST news278867087 Highlanders in Tibet and Ethiopia share a biological adaptation that enables them to thrive in the low oxygen of high altitudes, but the ability to pass on the trait appears to be linked to different genes in the two groups, research from a Case Western Reserve University scientist and colleagues shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-genes-thin-air.html Medical research Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:10:04 EST news274031626 Racial and gender stereotypes have profound consequences in almost every sector of public life, from job interviews and housing to police stops and prison terms. However, only a few studies have examined whether these different categories overlap in their stereotypes. A new study on the connections between race and gender – a phenomenon called gendered race – reveals unexpected ways in which stereotypes affect our personal and professional decisions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-gender-overlapping-stereotypes-affect-personal.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:51:47 EST news273772299 Disparities in survival after breast cancer persisted across racial/ethnic groups even after researchers adjusted for multiple demographics, such as patients' education and the socioeconomic status of the neighborhood in which they lived, according to data presented at the Fifth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held here Oct. 27-30, 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-ethnic-disparities-breast-cancer-survival.html Cancer Tue, 30 Oct 2012 06:50:04 EST news270797269 A new report from American Cancer Society researchers finds that despite declining death rates, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death among Hispanics in the U.S. In 2009, the most recent year for which actual data are available, 29,935 people of Hispanic origin in the U.S. died of cancer, compared to 29,611 deaths from heart disease. Among non-Hispanic whites and African Americans, heart disease remains the number one cause of death. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-cancer-killer-hispanics.html Cancer Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:08:09 EST news267095199 Influenza vaccination rates vary widely in Canada by ethnicity, with black and white Canadians being the least likely to be vaccinated, found a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-flu-vaccination-vary-widely-ethnicity.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:00:18 EST news266491371 A survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. teenagers suggests that most cases of alcohol and drug abuse have their initial onset at this important period of development, according to a report published in the April issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-teen-alcohol-illicit-drug-abuse.html Addiction Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:00:02 EST news252590472 New research finds foreign-born Hispanics now living in the United States appear to be less likely to have a stroke compared to non-Hispanic white people. The research was released today and will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans April 21 to April 28, 2012. The research is also being simultaneously published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-born-country-hispanics.html Neuroscience Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:00:03 EST news249047082 One of the first things people ask new parents is how much does their baby weigh. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-babies-born-immigrants-small-incorrectly.html Health Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:55:37 EST news248529323 Girls are not as good at playing football as boys, and they do not have a clue about cars. Instead they know better how to dance and do not get into mischief as often as boys. Prejudices like these are cultivated from early childhood onwards by everyone. "Approximately at the age of three to four years children start to prefer children of the same sex, and later the same ethnic group or nationality," Prof. Dr. Andreas Beelmann of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) states. This is part of an entirely normal personality development, the director of the Institute for Psychology explains. "It only gets problematic when the more positive evaluation of the own social group, which is adopted automatically in the course of identity formation, at some point reverts into bias and discrimination against others," Beelmann continues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-psychologists-prejudices-children.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:10:01 EST news246880855 The American Cancer Society's annual cancer statistics report shows that between 2004 and 2008, overall cancer incidence rates declined by 0.6% per year in men and were stable in women, while cancer death rates decreased by 1.8% per year in men and by 1.6% per year in women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-american-cancer-society-mortality.html Cancer Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:36:01 EST news244906508 Inner Mongolia Agricultural University (IMAU), Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities (IMUN) and BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, jointly announced the first complete sequencing of Mongolian genome. This genomic study will help researchers to better understand the evolutionary process and migration of Mongolians and their ancestors from Africa to Asia, which also lays an important genomic foundation for further development of human genetic diseases research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-chinese-scientists-sequencing-mongolian-genome.html Genetics Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:19:01 EST news243508718 Refugees who have fled Burma to live in Oakland, Calif., are at risk of becoming a permanent, poverty-stricken underclass warns a new report released today by researchers at San Francisco State University and the Burma Refugee Family Network (BRFN). The report found that almost 60 percent of Oakland's refugees from Burma are living in extreme poverty. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-refugees-burma-life-extreme-poverty.html Health Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:26:33 EST news241694786 Despite having the second-lowest smoking rate in the nation, California is still home to nearly 2.5 million children under the age of 12 who are exposed to secondhand smoke, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-million-california-children-secondhand-exposure.html Health Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:37:48 EST news238948622 In recent years, the UK government has made bold statements regarding the recommendations for living a healthy life; including guidelines for how much fruit and how many vegetables we should eat daily, along with the ideal amount of physical activity we should do in order to avoid the risks of obesity. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the research found that men from most of the minority ethnic groups studied, and women from Pakistani and Bangladeshi groups, are more likely than their white counterparts to eat the recommended five portions of fruit or vegetables a day. Pakistani and Bangladeshi men and women and Indian and Chinese women are less likely to be as physically active. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-differing-lifestyles-ethnicity-health.html Health Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:01:15 EST news229312802 Multicultural daycares don't necessarily foster a desire for kids of visibly different ethnicities to play together. A study on Asian-Canadian and French-Canadian preschoolers has found these children may have a preference to interact with kids of their own ethnic group. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-kids-playmates-ethnicity.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:04:42 EST news227873054 New research finds that gestational diabetes, or pregnancy-related diabetes, may not raise the risk of heart disease independent of other cardiovascular risk factors except in certain high-risk populations, such as Hispanics. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-women-heart-disease-gestational-diabetes.html Cardiology Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:29:20 EST news226578536