Health
Parents have role in smoking prevention
Parents shouldn't let up when it comes to discouraging their kids from smoking.
May 2, 2011
0
0
Page 3 - News tagged with ethnic backgrounds
Immunology
Immune response to flu vaccine linked to recipients' ethnic background
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
0
106
Health
Wishful thinking: Asking adolescents about their hopes and dreams proves insightful
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
0
0
Oncology & Cancer
New recommendations aim to ease patient access to lung cancer clinical trials
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
0
20
Medical research
Study finds patients prefer doctors who share their same race/ethnicity
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
0
11
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
High COVID-19 risk among health care workers, especially those from minority backgrounds
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
0
3
Oncology & Cancer
Inherited risk factors for childhood leukemia are more common in Hispanic patients
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
0
0
Cardiology
Millions may see lower out-of-pocket costs for heart medications
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
0
3
Pediatrics
Racial, ethnic disparities in care for preemies have narrowed
(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
0
7
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Advancement in hepatitis B cell lines a step forward in discovering new treatments
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
0
39
