A study published this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) has found that over more than 20 years, seven major cardiovascular societies were more likely to distribute awards to men and white individuals ...
Nov 17, 2022
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Biases in heart disease and metabolic disorder studies—also known as cardiometabolic studies—are putting the lives of midlife Black and Hispanic women in jeopardy.
Nov 7, 2022
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College-educated Black women in the United States give birth to fewer children than their white and Hispanic counterparts, according to a new study coauthored by Yale sociologist Emma Zang.
Oct 20, 2022
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An article in Arthritis & Rheumatology describes how the Supreme Court's June 24th decision to overturn Roe v. Wade portends grave consequences for the practice of rheumatology.
Sep 21, 2022
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Black and Asian women are more likely than white women to experience significant delays in getting breast biopsies after a mammogram identifies an abnormality. Moreover, those delays appear to be influenced by screening site-specific ...
Jun 23, 2022
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After childbirth, some women who received an epidural for pain will develop a debilitating headache. But minority women are less likely than white moms to receive the treatment that can provide relief, according to a new ...
Apr 25, 2022
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Positive lymph node status is not a reliable indicator of the need for adjunctive chemotherapy, and sentinel node biopsy may not be helpful in older women with certain low-risk breast cancers, according to a study presented ...
Apr 13, 2022
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COVID vaccines protect people from severe illness and death, but in the UK, they're not doing so evenly. While overall uptake of COVID vaccines in Britain is high, it isn't uniform across all ethnic groups.
Dec 15, 2021
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In 2019, Anaïs Llorens and Athina Tzovara—one a current, the other a former University of California, Berkeley, postdoctoral scholar at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI)—were attending a scientific meeting ...
Jul 7, 2021
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Despite evidence regarding the benefits of vaginal birth after cesarean and recommendations to support shared decision making to reduce cesarean rates, minority women face many impediments that limit their access to appropriate ...
Jun 14, 2021
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