Unequal exposure to environmental pollutants acting as endocrine-disrupting chemicals is an under-recognized risk factor that may play a key role in driving the higher rates of diabetes among minority and low-income populations, ...
Nov 15, 2017
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Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act has been linked with better quality of care and service capacity at federally qualified heath centers (FQHCs), but there is little evidence of the long-term impact of this ...
Sep 10, 2021
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A new study provides insights into the degree to which socioeconomic status explains racial and ethnic disparities in childhood cancer survival. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer ...
Aug 20, 2018
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In a study that highlights racial disparities in the everyday impact of eczema, new research shows Hispanic and black children are more likely than white children to miss school due to the chronic skin disease. Researchers ...
May 22, 2019
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Available data from states shows that some racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to die of COVID-19 than whites, and a new, age-adjusted analysis by researchers at Yale and the University of Pittsburgh provides a clearer ...
May 20, 2020
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Racial disparities can be seen in dementia severity, functional impairment, and neuropsychiatric symptoms among patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), according to a study published online Sept. 11 in JAMA Neurology.
Sep 14, 2023
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Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine that they "do not believe that ignoring race will reduce health disparities" but rather that "such an approach is a form of naive 'color blindness' that is more likely to perpetuate ...
Feb 26, 2021
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When reports showed that COVID-19 vaccination rates were lower among racial/ethnic minority groups, most discussions focused on mistrust and misinformation among these populations or their reduced access to health care facilities. ...
Jul 28, 2022
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(HealthDay)—Stillbirths have eclipsed infant deaths for the first time in the United States, a new government report shows.
Jul 24, 2015
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Gays and lesbians are more than twice as likely to use tobacco than heterosexuals, and University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have detailed how the disparity can be reduced.
Jul 11, 2017
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