Preterm birth rates are an important marker in assessing a country's overall health, and the United States isn't faring very well.
Nov 13, 2023
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Separating mortality data for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults from Asian American adults reveals large differences in how cardiovascular disease affects these populations, according to a new analysis.
Nov 9, 2023
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The rate of firearm homicides in the United States decreased in 2022, the first drop seen since a sharp increase emerged early in the pandemic, public health officials reported.
Oct 23, 2023
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Many pregnant individuals who gave birth between June and December 2020 did not use prenatal telehealth, according to a research letter published online Oct. 10 in JAMA Network Open.
Oct 12, 2023
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Despite a steady increase in palliative care utilization from 2004 to 2020, non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic, and Asian or Pacific Islander patients with metastatic breast cancer were less likely to receive palliative care than ...
Sep 29, 2023
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Two common, treatable medical conditions—hypertension and iron-deficiency anemia—contribute significantly to racial disparities in childbirth complications, according to a pair of new studies from the Stanford School ...
Sep 8, 2023
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Reliance on home health care services is increasing in the U.S. A new study from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH) quantifies the degree to which home health care patients' race, ethnicity and income ...
Aug 16, 2023
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A new study from researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) found monthly adult cancer diagnoses decreased by half in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The largest decrease was for stage ...
Aug 1, 2023
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Hmong American adults who have a stroke tend to be much younger than their white counterparts and may be more likely to have a less common type that causes bleeding in the brain, a new study suggests.
Jul 19, 2023
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Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are vastly underrepresented in genetic research on dementia. Of the 45,000 participants in U.S. Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers, for example, just 17 are from this cohort.
Jul 18, 2023
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