Health
Restoring trust in research by creating lasting relationships
Distrust can lead people to put up walls. For communities of color, past abuses, such as the Tuskegee Experiment, left them wary of scientific research.
Apr 26, 2022
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Consumer preferences for tinted sunscreen highlight lack of inclusion for people of color
New research from Boston Medical Center has found that while tinted sunscreens offer protection from certain skin conditions that disproportionately affect people of color, the lack of tinted sunscreen options for darker ...
Apr 12, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The effects of dynamic light on our state of mind
When we recently put our clocks forward for daylight saving time, we lost one hour of sleep and the mornings became darker again. This change of light disrupts our biological clock for a few days. But how does that work with ...
Apr 6, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
When will the pandemic be over?
For the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted virtually every facet of life. Now, some people are ready to ditch the masks and other precautions. COVID will eventually transition from pandemic to endemic, the ...
Feb 22, 2022
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Health
Study of health woes in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria shows effects of climate change
A new study that found long-term health problems in Hurricane Maria survivors underscores the devastating health consequences of climate change on communities of color, experts say.
Jan 17, 2022
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Health
Study: Safe drinking water remains out of reach for many Californians
An estimated 370,000 Californians rely on drinking water that may contain high levels of arsenic, nitrate or hexavalent chromium, and contaminated drinking water disproportionately impact communities of color in the state, ...
Jan 11, 2022
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Medical research
Avoidance of racism in environmental health epidemiology
A body of environmental health research has for decades linked the disproportionate impact of environmental health problems born by Black, Hispanic and disadvantaged communities to structural racism and societal factors that ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Health
Examining the role of public health in racism
In a new article published in Harvard Public Health Review, Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) students critically examine the role of public health in racism and oppression and how they, as the future leaders of public health, ...
Nov 3, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Biased tech could determine who gets life saving therapy
Until her clinical rotation in the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Valeria Valbuena, M.D., then a surgical resident at University of Michigan Health, had never seen so many patients who looked like her on the intensive ...
Oct 28, 2021
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Health
Study reveals underreporting of domestic violence in Black communities during Chicago's stay-at-home order
As resources for people experiencing domestic violence in Chicago's South Side dwindled during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic stay-at-home order, so did reporting of violence within the home, according to new research published ...
Sep 3, 2021
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