In the United States, federal regulators manage air pollution primarily due to its effects on human health and mortality. Current regulatory analyses assume that all people are affected equally by air pollution. A new study ...
Dec 20, 2021
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Racial bias among health care providers may limit the number of Black women who could be taking a daily pill to prevent HIV infection, according to a Rutgers-led study.
Dec 7, 2021
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National Institutes of Health researchers have found that the words that scientists use to describe human populations—such as race, ancestry, and ethnicity—significantly changed from 1949 to 2018. Such changes and their ...
Dec 2, 2021
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To assess kidney function and track chronic kidney disease, health care providers commonly use a measure called eGFR (estimated glomerular filtration rate). But the two predominant equations used in the United States to calculate ...
Nov 23, 2021
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Suicide risk among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults varies considerably depending on the intersection between sexual identity and other aspects of identity, such as gender, age, and race/ethnicity, according to a study led ...
Nov 9, 2021
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Race is not genetic. Race is a social and political construct. However, the conflation of race and genetics is one way that racism persists in medicine and research.
Oct 27, 2021
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Sylvia Perry studies the formation of racial attitudes and practices designed to reduce prejudice, work that is key to fostering classroom environments, and a society at-large, where everyone can achieve and thrive.
Oct 14, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Race alone does not explain disparities in cancer screening among women, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society, held from Sept. 22 to 25 in Washington, ...
Sep 27, 2021
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Researchers have identified an approach to remove race from equations used to estimate a person's kidney function. These equations have been criticized for potentially perpetuating racial health disparities. The findings, ...
Sep 23, 2021
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Women who do not receive recommended cancer screenings are at a higher risk of morbidity and mortality. But why is it that some women are more likely to receive cancer screenings than others? A new study examined differences ...
Sep 22, 2021
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