Obstetrics & gynaecology
Black women turn to midwives to avoid COVID and 'feel cared for'
From the moment she learned she was pregnant late last year, TaNefer Camara knew she didn't want to have her baby in a hospital bed.
Oct 1, 2020
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Health
Researchers measure DINCH levels in women to help understand its effects
Detergents, shampoos, soaps and other everyday items sometimes contain a group of chemicals called phthalates, which are often used to enhance products and add flexibility to plastics. However, mounting research has shown ...
Sep 25, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers explore how COVID-19 affects heart health in black women
Nearly six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, two things have become clear: The virus profoundly impacts people with heart disease and disproportionately impacts Black people. But the many manifestations of these disparities ...
Aug 25, 2020
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Racial, socioeconomic disparities fuel increased infant mortality rates in California
While infant mortality rates (IMR) decreased overall from 2007 to 2015 in California, disparities in infant death rates have increased in some groups, including among obese mothers, those who smoke and African American women, ...
Aug 11, 2020
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Medical research
Research team shrinks breast cancer tumors in mice with targeted therapy
A team of researchers led by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Provost Wole Soboyejo has identified targeted drugs that reduced the sizes of hard-to-treat breast cancer tumors in mice without inducing the toxic side effects ...
May 28, 2020
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Health
After diabetes, stroke and heart attack, she's learning to 'fight smart'
Hyvelle Ferguson-Davis was reviewing paperwork at her office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, when the headache started. It grew stronger and stronger and her eyes blurred, making it difficult to read. She hoped she wasn't coming ...
May 21, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
African-American and white women share genes that increase breast cancer risk
The same genes that greatly increase the risk of breast cancer in U.S. white women, including women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, also greatly increase breast cancer risk among African American women. These genes include the ...
May 19, 2020
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Cardiology
Is reducing stress the key to lowering heart disease among African Americans?
Researchers have long understood that African Americans experience a disproportionate level of high blood pressure and heart disease. As they've sought to understand why, evidence has emerged demonstrating the powerful role ...
Apr 13, 2020
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Radiology & Imaging
Tomosynthesis outperforms digital mammography in five-year study
A new study published in the journal Radiology has found that the advantages of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) over digital mammography (DM), including increased cancer detection and fewer false positive findings, are ...
Mar 10, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Community support groups vital to African American women with breast cancer
Shelley White-Means, Ph.D., a professor of health economics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is the principal investigator of a paper published this month in the International Journal of Environmental ...
Feb 26, 2020
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