A UC Davis Health study on the racial and ethnic composition of residency programs in the United States found ophthalmology programs rank last in underrepresented minority group recruitment compared to other specialties. ...
Nov 10, 2022
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A first-of-its-kind study published today in AIDS and Behavior suggests that parents can be taught to communicate with their gay or bisexual sons about safe sex. Even better, this study finds that parents in the intervention ...
Nov 9, 2022
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At least 33 young people have died from polydrug use in Switzerland since 2018. Polydrug use refers to taking two or more psychoactive substances at the same time. The young adults are often unaware of the associated risks ...
Oct 27, 2022
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Rates of prenatal care among foreign-born Latinx pregnant people decreased below expected levels during the 2016 presidential campaign—likely reflecting the effects of harmful anti-immigrant rhetoric, reports a study in ...
Oct 20, 2022
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In February 2020, as the world began to realize the scope of COVID-19, Japanese authorities quarantined all 3,711 passengers and crew on the Diamond Princess cruise ship for 14 days after a passenger who disembarked earlier ...
Oct 12, 2022
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Four of 10 Americans surveyed report that they were often less than truthful about whether they had COVID-19 and/or didn't comply with many of the disease's preventive measures during the height of the pandemic, according ...
Oct 10, 2022
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Researchers from the University of Oxford have today reported findings from a large-scale study that examined the impact of the UK's MenACWY vaccination program on the carriage of meningitis bacteria in the throats of UK ...
Oct 7, 2022
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Members of the public are being asked to help remove biases based on race and other disadvantaged groups in artificial intelligence algorithms for health care.
Sep 26, 2022
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Increases in depression without commensurate increases in treatment are widespread, reports a study conducted at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and City University of New York. In 2020, past 12‒month ...
Sep 19, 2022
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Shawn Griffin remembers his first—and subsequently last—attempt to ask his doctor to prescribe him PrEP.
Sep 8, 2022
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