Advancements in techniques and treatment have transformed care for patients with cardiovascular disease over the last decade, and national and state-wide initiatives have been put in place to help close disparity gaps and ...
Apr 22, 2022
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(HealthDay)—There are still considerable racial/ethnic and sociodemographic disparities in cancer occurrence and death rates, according to a report published online Dec. 8 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
Dec 17, 2021
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A new study finds racial/ethnic disparities in survival among newly diagnosed patients with childhood cancers in the United States and that area-level socioeconomic status (SES) and health insurance contribute to these disparities. ...
Sep 30, 2021
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The numbers of cancer screening tests rebounded sharply in the last quarter of 2020, following a dramatic decline in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, at one large hospital system in the Northeastern United States. ...
Jul 7, 2021
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The Urban Health Collaborative, housed in Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health, recently published its "COVID-19 Health Inequities in Cities" dashboard—which exposes deeply entrenched inequities in cities ...
Jun 22, 2021
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Disparities exist in the treatment of people with headache disorders because of race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status and geography, according to a review article published in the June 9, 2021, online issue of Neurology.
Jun 9, 2021
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A comprehensive modeling study sheds new light on socioeconomic-based mechanisms that drive disparities in influenza burden across the U.S. Casey Zipfel of Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and colleagues present this ...
Mar 11, 2021
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For the drug approval process in the United States, investigators have been expanding clinical trials to sites outside the country. However, a new study indicates that this trend may be widening racial disparities in patient ...
Mar 8, 2021
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New research provides insights on the potential causes of racial disparities in deaths following prostate cancer surgery. The findings are published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society ...
Sep 8, 2020
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In a major public health success, the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine PCV13, or Prevnar 13, in 2010 in the United States is associated with reduction in socioeconomic disparities and the near elimination of ...
Aug 31, 2020
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