Medical economics
UC Davis Health creates road map to diversify health care workforce
How can health care systems increase diversity and inclusion in their workforce?
Jan 7, 2024
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News tagged with diverse communities
Oncology & Cancer
Is a cancer clinical trial right for me?
Clinical trials, also known as clinical studies, help medical researchers understand how to diagnose, treat and prevent cancer and other diseases and conditions. Healthcare professionals translate findings from clinical trials ...
Jun 20, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study deemed a success in directly informing Victoria's COVID-19 response
The success of the Optimise Study in shaping Victoria's and Australia's response to the COVID-19 pandemic paves the way for similarly ambitious research projects in the future, a webinar wrapping up the project was told.
Jan 17, 2023
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Health
My Healthy Maryland biobank will use health data from 250,000 state volunteers to help prevent, treat diseases
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have begun collecting broad health information from 250,000 volunteers around the state in an effort to uncover better ways of treating and preventing all kinds ...
Jul 28, 2022
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Health
Tackling the bioethics challenges raised by COVID-19
The diverse situations experienced by health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic often present serious ethical challenges. From the allocation of resources and triage protocols to health-care worker and patient rights ...
Aug 3, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19 vaccine to be tested in clinical trial
The University of Illinois at Chicago will soon test a vaccine for COVID-19.
Jun 15, 2020
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Health
Transgender rights critical for the health of 25 million transgender people worldwide
2015 was an unprecedented year in the recognition of transgender rights in some high-income countries. However, as a new Series published in The Lancet today reveals, public recognition has yet to translate to a concerted ...
Jun 17, 2016
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Health
Report highlights growing need to improve end of life care for minority ethnic groups
With Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups aged 65 and over set to treble in the next 25 years, there is a growing need to rethink how accessible and appropriate end of life care is to people from diverse communities ...
Jun 26, 2013
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Medications
India fights to protect its traditional home remedies
For centuries, Indian housewives have used homemade remedies based on cow's milk to cure constipation—but in 2009 Swiss giant Nestle applied for a patent to protect a similar product of its own.
Oct 14, 2012
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Health
Sleep researchers study value of preschool naps
Parents may feel it's clear that missing a nap means their young children will be grumpy and out-of-sorts, but scientists who study sleep say almost nothing is known about how daytime sleep affects children's coping skills ...
Sep 14, 2012
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