Parents have role in smoking prevention
Parents shouldn't let up when it comes to discouraging their kids from smoking.
May 2, 2011
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Parents shouldn't let up when it comes to discouraging their kids from smoking.
May 2, 2011
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How well a flu shot protects you from the virus can depend on your ethnic background and other inherited factors, report Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists.
Feb 16, 2016
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Trying to figure out what's going on inside the mind of an adolescent can be challenging, to say the least. A new study shows that simply asking them what they wish for could be eye-opening.
May 2, 2011
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A clinical trial is only as powerful as its participants. For years, researchers have struggled to fill clinical trials and enroll sufficiently diverse groups of patients for results to reflect the broader population, in ...
Aug 5, 2022
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Patients who shared the same racial or ethnic background as their physician were more likely to give the maximum patient rating score, according to a new analysis of 117,589 patient surveys from 2014 to 2017. The findings, ...
Nov 9, 2020
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New research indicates that at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. and the U.K., frontline healthcare workers—particularly those from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds—faced much higher risks of ...
Jul 31, 2020
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Hispanic children are more likely than those from other racial and ethnic backgrounds to be diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and are more likely to die of their disease. Work led by St. Jude Children's Research ...
Jan 30, 2012
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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, including in the United States, where about 20% of all deaths are caused by heart disease. Highly effective medications can lower the rates of death and disability ...
Mar 8, 2023
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(HealthDay)—The disparity gap for care practices and certain outcomes between minority and white infants born at 22 to 29 gestational weeks narrowed from 2006 to 2017, according to a study published online Aug. 14 in Pediatrics.
Aug 13, 2019
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Researchers created stable cell lines capable of producing different genotypes of the hepatitis B virus (HBV), advancing understanding of each type's distinct virological features, treatment responses, and infectivity that ...
Feb 14, 2022
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