Awareness about a disease in at risk-population improve outcomes. That's the simple idea behind a new, bilingual resource for both patients, medical students, and providers to help them overcome cultural barriers and recognize ...
Mar 8, 2024
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An academic medical center in Charleston, South Carolina, has been able to significantly improve access to kidney transplants for African Americans by streamlining and standardizing the evaluation process, improving patient ...
Jan 26, 2023
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African American men are more likely to develop prostate cancer than European American men, and are also more than twice as likely to die from it. Although there are many reasons that contribute to this health disparity, ...
Jul 20, 2015
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Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers, a research collaboration which includes University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University, who last year identified new gene mutations unique to colon ...
Sep 1, 2016
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Pediatricians who show an unconscious preference for European Americans tend to prescribe better pain-management for white patients than they do for African-American patients, new University of Washington research shows.
Mar 19, 2012
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The University of Illinois at Chicago has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to determine what combination and dosages of asthma medications works best to manage asthma in African Americans, who suffer ...
Feb 19, 2014
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Multiple studies have shown that African American women with breast cancer have lower survival rates than white women with the disease. But the association between race or ethnicity and treatment outcomes in triple-negative ...
May 13, 2021
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African American patients suffering heart conditions are more likely than white patients to have their ambulance diverted to another hospital due to overcrowding in their nearest emergency room, according to a new UC San ...
Mar 18, 2016
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Commercial gene expression tests that guide treatment decisions for prostate cancer may not accurately predict risk of disease progression in African American patients, according to results published in Cancer Epidemiology, ...
Nov 22, 2019
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Race-correction for spirometry, a type of pulmonary function test, is commonly done in medical institutions across the United States.
Aug 22, 2023
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