Oncology & Cancer

Fighting racial bias in next-gen breast cancer screening

Breast cancer is one of the most common and deadly types of cancer, and the best outcomes stem from early detection. But some screening techniques may be less effective for people with darker skin.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Whites believe they are victims of racism more often than blacks

Whites believe that they are replacing blacks as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Drug 'reduces implicit racial bias,' study suggests

(Medical Xpress) -- Taking a heart disease medication can affect a person's subconscious attitudes towards race, a team of ethicists, psychiatrists and psychologists at Oxford University has found.

Health informatics

Using AI to remove racial disparity in knee pain diagnosis

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has developed an artificial-intelligence-based application for categorizing the degree of pain in patients suffering from osteoarthritis in their knees. ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Study finds Asian-Americans often feel racial 'microaggressions'

(Medical Xpress)—Asian-Americans experience considerable everyday prejudice and discrimination, reports a Cornell study published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology (Vol. 60:2). The study is one of the first to document ...

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