Stopping the spread of COVID-19 is difficult enough. It's even more complicated and confusing when information and resources provided by governments are largely inaccessible to a variety of disabled populations. A newly-published ...
Jan 26, 2021
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The Biden administration announced this week that it will take new measures to expand access to Paxlovid, the first medication developed to treat COVID-19. The White House plans to nearly double the number of places that ...
May 2, 2022
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A postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Riverside, has discovered human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccination mandates fall short of ensuring both higher levels of uptake and equal uptake of the vaccine across ...
Oct 5, 2020
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Since early May, more than 23,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported worldwide. This is the largest ever global outbreak of the disease.
Aug 3, 2022
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Buprenorphine is a prescription approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that effectively treats opioid dependence or addiction. But women, as well as Black and Hispanic populations, do not have equal access to ...
Jun 3, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Exeter teamed up with colleagues at the Indiana University School of Medicine to commemorate the centennial of the discovery of insulin and the critical moments that have led to today's understanding ...
Jul 28, 2021
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The gap in the use of insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) among Black and white Medicare beneficiaries widened from 2017-2019, according to new research published in the Endocrine Society's Journal ...
Dec 15, 2021
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Genomics is the study of all of a person's genes, including interactions of those genes with each other and with the person's environment. Sequencing and analyzing genomic information can help us better diagnose, treat and ...
Sep 22, 2023
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Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators have found that Black men respond as well as white men to systemic therapies for advanced prostate cancer when access to quality health care is equal, regardless of socioeconomic status. ...
Oct 27, 2023
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Patients with low income have a higher risk of death following surgery for lung cancer compared with patients with high income. The association remains even after taking prevalence of common comorbidities, and other factors ...
Jun 22, 2020
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