Microvascular function, which is the measurement of how healthy the arteries are throughout a person's body, is lower in Black women compared to white women throughout the menstrual cycle, according to researchers at the ...
Jan 14, 2022
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(HealthDay)—Eat right to protect your sight.
Jan 10, 2022
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Chronic hypertension is contributing substantially to maternal deaths in the United States, with particular risk among Black women, according to new research from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School's Department of ...
Jan 3, 2022
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A novel analysis of medical records for a racially diverse group of more than 6,000 women has added to evidence that some combination of biological, social and cultural factors—and not race alone—is likely responsible ...
Dec 29, 2021
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Efforts to reduce maternal morbidity have primarily centered around the risk of life-threatening events during and shortly after pregnancy.
Dec 8, 2021
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Analysis of data from the I-SPY 2 clinical trial showed that race did not significantly affect several key measures of breast cancer treatment outcomes, including pathologic complete response and event-free survival, according ...
Dec 8, 2021
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Racial bias among health care providers may limit the number of Black women who could be taking a daily pill to prevent HIV infection, according to a Rutgers-led study.
Dec 7, 2021
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(HealthDay)—A condition called lymphedema is a well-known side effect of breast cancer treatment that can lead to swelling in the arms and legs.
Dec 7, 2021
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Forty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Black women continue to bear the highest burden of HIV among women.
Dec 7, 2021
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Pregnant women with COVID-19 face increased chances for stillbirths compared with uninfected women, and that risk spiked to four times higher after the delta variant emerged, new government data show.
Nov 19, 2021
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