Every year, millions of referrals are made by primary care physicians in the U.S. for patients needing consultations with specialists. The intention is for patients to be seen by specialists and then to return to their primary ...
Mar 4, 2024
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Global health photography is often caught between photojournalistic intentions of accurately reflecting local communities and marketing directives to create attention-grabbing imagery, according to a study published in PLOS ...
Feb 14, 2024
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How much power do home care workers have to resist being exploited by their employers? For Asian women working in this occupation in California, the answer is shaped by several factors, including filial obligations, cultural ...
Nov 20, 2023
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Australia's First Nations populations are among the world's highest sufferers of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD), yet only one in five patients received treatment in 2019.
Oct 23, 2023
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Smoke from the massive wildfires still burning in northern Canada has cast a pall over much of North America this summer, leading to health concerns for older people and those with chronic respiratory conditions.
Aug 29, 2023
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Despite decades of research, Alzheimer's disease remains a debilitating and eventually fatal dementia with no effective treatment options. More than 95 percent of Alzheimer's disease cases have no known origin. Now, scientists ...
Dec 1, 2022
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Wartime trauma paired with starting over in a new country make getting health care particularly challenging for immigrant refugees. Talking to a doctor or getting prescriptions filled in an unfamiliar language is hard enough. ...
May 24, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed long-standing disparities in health outcomes by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Addressing the root causes of those disparities is essential to closing the gap and ensuring all patients ...
Jan 24, 2022
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A new Curtin University study has found that there is an urgent need to develop and implement strategies to empower Aboriginal families to identify deteriorating health in their child and alert clinicians.
Nov 23, 2021
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Black and Latinx people intensely sought information on COVID-19 and engaged in public health measures such as mask-wearing and testing due to devastating experiences during the pandemic but are still skeptical about vaccines, ...
Jul 15, 2021
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