News tagged with ethnic minority


Study: Graphic warnings on cigarettes effective across demographic groups

Quitting smoking is a common New Year's resolution for Americans each year, but research has repeatedly shown it is not an easy task. Some groups, such as racial/ethnic minorities, have an even harder time quitting. New research ...

Health created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Novel racial/ethnic differences found in diabetic kidney disease

(HealthDay)—Rates of proteinuric and nonproteinuric diabetic kidney disease (DKD) vary significantly across racial/ethnic groups, according to a study published online Dec. 13 in Diabetes Care.

Diabetes created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Better care from doctors who are culturally aware

HIV patients from ethnic minorities receive better quality of care from doctors and other primary healthcare professionals who are the most competent at caring for patients from diverse backgrounds – those who are "culturally ...

HIV & AIDS created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Research reveals landing first job can be harder for nurses from ethnic minorities

Student nurses from ethnic minorities can find it harder to secure work by the time they qualify and feel less confident about getting a job than their white British counterparts, according to new research ...

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Darfur's yellow fever shows 'no sign of stopping'

A rare outbreak of mosquito-borne yellow fever which has killed 165 people in Sudan's Darfur region in the past three months continues to spread, the UN warned on Thursday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yellow fever shots begin in Sudan's Darfur

Health workers in Sudan's Darfur region have begun vaccinating more than two million people against a rare yellow fever outbreak suspected of killing 124 since late September, medics said on Thursday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds certain subgroups of black women have lower uptake of HPV vaccination

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. ...

Health created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Millions to get yellow fever shots in outbreak-hit Darfur

More than two million people in Sudan's Darfur region will be vaccinated against a rare yellow fever outbreak suspected of killing 107 people since late September, health officials said on Tuesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Darfur yellow fever deaths double to 67: UN agency

The number of people believed to have died from mosquito-borne yellow fever in Sudan's conflict-plagued Darfur region has doubled to 67, health officials said on Tuesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Home blood pressure monitoring may not benefit patients with stroke and hypertension

Home blood pressure monitoring may help patients with hypertension and stroke but did not improve blood pressure control for patients who had normal blood pressure at the start or those with disabilities, according to a randomized ...

Health created Nov 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Minorities most likely to have aggressive tumors, less likely to get radiation

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, ...

Cancer created Oct 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Minorities more likely to view generic drugs as inferior, study finds

Negative perceptions about generic drugs are more widespread among ethnic minorities than among whites, finds a new study in Ethnicity & Disease. Greater use of generic drugs, say the authors, could signif ...

Medications created Oct 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Weight gain worry for stressed black girls

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, ...

Health created Sep 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nearly half of kidney recipients in live donor transplant chains are minorities

The largest U.S. multicenter study of living kidney transplant donor chains showed that 46 percent of recipients are minorities, a finding that allays previous fears that these groups would be disadvantaged by expansion of ...

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Children raised in inter-ethnic families better adjusted than children in mono-ethnic families

A study on the emotional and behavioural adjustments of children from inter-ethnic and mono-ethnic families in Malaysia challenges traditional assumptions about inter-ethnic families.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0