http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. African American adolescents tend to have more success in school if their parents instill in them a sense of racial pride, reducing their vulnerability to the effects of racial discrimination from teachers and peers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-instilling-racial-pride-black-teens.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:40:43 EST news274984837 Could the impact of chronic stress explain why American black girls are more likely to be overweight than white girls? According to Dr. Tomiyama of the University of California, Los Angeles in the U.S., and her colleagues, higher levels of stress over 10 years predict greater increases in body weight over time in both black and white girls. However, the experience of chronic stress appears to have a greater negative effect on black girls' weight, which may explain racial disparities in obesity levels. The work is published online in Springer's journal, Annals of Behavioral Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-weight-gain-stressed-black-girls.html Health Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:06:21 EST news267275175 (Medical Xpress) -- Exposure to stress can increase the risk for violent behaviors and depressive symptoms for African-American young adults. Different types of stress, particularly racial discrimination, can influence the level of this risk, finds a new study by Lorena Estrada-Martínez, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-african-american-youth-stress-factor-important.html Health Mon, 16 Jul 2012 05:00:01 EST news261632947 (Medical Xpress) -- Racial discrimination could lessen the mental-health benefits usually associated with better socio-economic position for African-American men, finds a new study by Darrell L. Hudson, PhD, assistant professor of public health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-racial-discrimination-lessens-benefits-higher.html Health Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:40:01 EST news258877344 Smoking, the leading preventable cause of mortality in the United States, continues to disproportionately impact lower income members of racial and ethnic minority groups. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-discrimination-impact.html Health Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:29:14 EST news251051314 Enduring subtle, insidious acts of racial discrimination is enough to depress anyone, but African-American men who believe that they should respond to stress with stoicism and emotional control experience more depression symptoms, according to new findings from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-emotions-exacerbate-depression-black-men.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:01:43 EST news250956093 Racial discrimination may be harmful to your health, according to new research from Rice University sociologists Jenifer Bratter and Bridget Gorman. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-discrimination-health.html Health Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:20:01 EST news245591866 The consequences of psychological stress, resulting from racial discrimination, may contribute to racial health disparities in conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other age-associated diseases. This is according to analyses of data from the epidemiologic study Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS)1, conducted by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-link-racial-discrimination-stress.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:02:41 EST news235224112 Perceived racial discrimination is associated with an increased risk of sleep disturbance, which may have a negative impact on mental and physical health, suggests a research abstract that will be presented Tuesday, June 14, in Minneapolis, Minn., at SLEEP 2011, the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-problems-link-racism-poor-health.html Health Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:33:34 EST news227244790 Whites believe that they are replacing blacks as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School. The findings, say the authors, show that America has not achieved the "post-racial" society that some predicted in the wake of Barack Obama's election. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-whites-victims-racism-blacks.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 23 May 2011 11:40:03 EST news225368696