http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. 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 Women with aggressive breast cancer were more likely to receive adjuvant chemotherapy, but at the expense of completing locoregional radiation therapy, according to recently presented data. This was especially true in minorities, who were the most likely to present with moderate- to high-grade and symptomatically detected tumors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-minorities-aggressive-tumors.html Cancer Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:20:02 EST news270697497 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 Women who go into early menopause are twice as likely to suffer from coronary heart disease and stroke, new Johns Hopkins-led research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-early-menopause-heart-disease.html Cardiology Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:31:28 EST news267186676 Los Angeles, CA (September 4, 2012) While the effects of sexualized media on young women has long been debated, a new study finds that women who read sex-related magazine articles from popular women's magazines like Cosmopolitan are less likely to view premarital sex as a risky behavior. Additionally, the women who are exposed to these articles are more supportive of sexual behavior that both empowers women and prioritizes their own sexual pleasure. This study was published in a recent article from Psychology of Women Quarterly (published by SAGE). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-magazine-articles-jeopardize-empower-young.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:32:13 EST news265977125 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) -- More than a third of births in the United States stem from unintended pregnancies, a number that's remained steady in the United States from 1982 to 2010, a new government report indicates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-births-unintended-cdc.html Health Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:40:01 EST news262342466 (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 It seems logical that programs to screen and manage depression in pregnant, HIV-positive Medicaid patients should already be in place, but they aren't. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-poor-pregnant-women-hiv-untreated.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:30:44 EST news258741038 (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 (HealthDay) -- From 2006 to 2008, the use of gene expression profile (GEP) testing increased, correlating with a decrease in the percentage of women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer receiving adjuvant chemotherapy, according to a study published online May 14 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-gene-profile-breast-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 18 May 2012 04:30:01 EST news256532228 If racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer exist, they are not due to differences in the use of imaging to assess the extent of tumors before surgery, according to new findings that will be presented by Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology on Monday, June 4. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-disparities-imaging-breast-cancer-surgery.html Cancer Thu, 17 May 2012 09:46:35 EST news256466782 (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 (AP) -- The warnings about skin cancer from too much sun don't seem to be getting through. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-cdc-young-adults-sunburned.html Health Thu, 10 May 2012 12:33:17 EST news255871986 (Medical Xpress) -- Murmurings over the past couple of years suggesting that certain statins might reduce the risk for people developing skin cancer, have proven to be unfounded. New research by a team working out of the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit have found clear evidence that taking statins has no discernible impact on skin cancer rates. They have published their findings in the medical journal Cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-statins-dont-skin-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:19:51 EST news254387944 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) -- White women accounted for the majority of the 733,000 people in the United States who lived in state-regulated residential care facilities in 2010, according to a new federal report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-white-women-bulk-assisted-living-residents.html Health Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:50:01 EST news253358745 A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers shows that obese white women may be less likely than normal-weight counterparts and African-Americans of any weight or gender to seek potentially lifesaving colon cancer screening tests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-obese-white-women-colon-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:00:02 EST news252758519 (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 (Medical Xpress) -- A UCLA-led group of researchers tracing disparities in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the U.S. has found that white males live about seven years longer on average than African American men and that white women live more than five years longer than their black counterparts. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-significant-state-by-state-differences-black-white.html Health Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:10:01 EST news249284586 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 Researchers in Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University recently found that obesity was linked to higher rates of prostate cancer screening across all races/ethnic differences and lower rates of cervical cancer screening, most notably in white women. Their study on the role of obesity in cancer screening rates for prostate, cervical as well as breast and colorectal cancers across race/ethnicity and gender is examined in the current issue of the Journal of Obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-obesity-cancer-screening-gender-role.html Health Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:27:06 EST news245330814 Mexican women in the United States are less likely to get mammograms than white women, black women and other Latinas, according to a new study in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-mammogram-mexican-women.html Cancer Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:50:02 EST news243682564 Hispanic women are more likely to die from breast cancer than non-Hispanic white women, according to research presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 6-10, 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-breast-cancer-mortality-higher-hispanic.html Cancer Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:10:25 EST news242539817 While all obese women are less satisfied with the weight-related quality of their lives than women of 'normal' weight, black women report a higher quality of life than white women of the same weight. In addition, black women appear to be more concerned about the physical limitations resulting from their obesity, than by the potential psychological consequences of being overweight or obese. These findings by Dr. Tiffany L. Cox, and her team from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute in Fargo, ND, and Obesity and Quality of Life Consulting in Durham, NC, are published online in Springer's journal Applied Research in Quality of Life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-overweight-stigma-african-american-women.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:23:34 EST news242483006 African American women who develop gestational diabetes mellitus during pregnancy face a 52 percent increased risk of developing diabetes in the future compared to white women who develop GDM during pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in the journal Diabetologia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-african-american-women-gestational-diabetes-high.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:59:17 EST news238309149