Black women at high risk of breast cancer face a variety of obstacles that may keep them from care that could prevent cancer and increase the chances they'll survive if they develop the disease, new research has found.
Mar 1, 2023
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A growing number of researchers have more than two grants simultaneously from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), but women and Black researchers are less likely than white men to be among them, a new Yale study finds. ...
Feb 28, 2023
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Concerns about job disruptions and loss of income were associated with increased depressive and anxiety symptoms in Latina women early in the pandemic, researchers found in a study that explored Black and Latina women's mental ...
Feb 27, 2023
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Black women of childbearing age were twice as likely to have uncontrolled high blood pressure when compared with their white peers, increasing their risk of heart-related complications during pregnancy, according to new research ...
Feb 27, 2023
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Government data show that approximately 7.2 million women in the United States have substance use disorders (SUDs) and almost 20 million reported illicit substance use in the past year. New research suggests that trauma leads ...
Feb 22, 2023
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A new study published in the journal Cell Death & Disease by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has identified a potential therapeutic target for triple-negative breast cancer, or TNBC, an aggressive treatment-resistant ...
Feb 21, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have examined national data about women with early-stage, estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer and found that social determinants of health and tumor biology contributed ...
Feb 16, 2023
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In a large-scale nationwide study, investigators from Cedars-Sinai Cancer have confirmed that rates of pancreatic cancer are rising—and are rising faster among younger women, particularly Black women, than among men of ...
Feb 10, 2023
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A race-based adjustment to test-result values from a common prenatal screening should be discontinued, according to a study published this week in Obstetrics and Gynecology. The adjustment has historically been applied only ...
Feb 3, 2023
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Preventive health screenings are important for everyone, yet these simple and routine things are not readily available to some. Nothing in life is perfect, medicine included. The health care system has not figured out a way ...
Feb 3, 2023
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