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- Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Health Services Research:
Pockets of Progress but a Long Way to Go - 07/07/2005
Is recruitment of underrepresented individuals for your health services research (HSR)
graduate programs a priority? More> - Colon cancer risk in US varies by race, ethnicity - 06/28/2005
In the US population, there is a wide ethnic and racial disparity in the risk of developing advanced-stage colorectal cancer and of dying from the disease, researchers report in the medical journal Cancer. More > - Code Gray: Race, Health & Medicine - 06/16/2005
The biotech company, Perlegen Sciences, made a dramatic announcement this February at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. More > - FDA Review of BiDil Shows Genes Matter Report on Hispanics and Genes, Culture, and Medicines Highlights
the Rise of Individualized Medicine - 06/15/2005
The FDA's review today of BiDil could make it the first drug approved specifically for African Americans and marks the end of 'one-size-fits-all' medicine," said Dr. Jane L. Delgado. More > - Heart drug nears FDA approval
Especially effective in treating black patients, BiDil sparks debate on race-specific medicines. - 06/15/2005
A heart-failure medicine soon may win approval for treatment specifically of blacks, which would make it the first drug aimed at an ethnic or racial group. More> - Hispanics Population Tops 41 Million, Census Says - 06/14/2005
The generation gap in America is widening by way of race and ethnicity, figures from the U.S. Census Bureau's annual report released Thursday show. More> - US storm over 'ethnic drugs' - 06/09/2005
SCIENTISTS have developed the world's first race-specific medicine, reawakening the controversy over whether black people are genetically different from whites. More > - New National Survey on Minorities in Sciences - 05/24/2005
Despite the fact that women, African-Americans, Native Americans and Hispanic Americans have long been under-represented in science and engineering (S&E) in the United States, a new survey shows parents of these students are overwhelmingly confident that their children – both boys and girls – have what it takes to succeed in these subjects in school and afterward in the workplace. More > - Regional and Racial Differences in Prevalence of Stroke --- 23 States and District of Columbia, 2003 - 05/20/2005
Higher stroke mortality in the United States has long been evidenced among blacks and residents of southeastern states. More > - Some in U.S. get delayed cancer care-studies - 05/15/2005
Many U.S. cancer patients are getting delayed or substandard care for their disease and are dying earlier as a consequence, according to several studies released on Sunday. More > - UAB Awarded $6.4 Million to Continue Work in Reducing Deep South's Minority Cancer Mortality Disparities - 05/10/2005
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced today that University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has been awarded a $6.4 million grant to reduce cancer mortality disparities in minority and poor populations in Alabama and Mississippi. More > - College Education a factor in Obesity Disparity among Racial Groups - 04/29/2005
There are significant racial differences in the association between education level and weight change for middle-aged women, according to an article in the March 14 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, by Tené T. Lewis, PhD, of Rush University Medical Center . More > - Deadlier Form of Cancer Found in Black Women - 04/18/2005
Women of African descent are more likely than whites to suffer an earlier and more virulent form of breast cancer, and doctors need to re-evaluate how black women are diagnosed and treated, a study said Monday. More > - First Study of ARICEPT(R) Exclusively in African American Patients With Mild
to Moderate Alzheimer's Disease Suggests Benefits of Treatment in This Population - 04/14/2005
African American patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) treated with ARICEPT(R) (donepezil HCl tablets) experienced significant improvements in cognition and global function from baseline, according to a study presented at the 57th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. More > - Anti-malaria Mutation May Up Prostate Tumor Risk - 04/05/2005
People of African descent often carry a genetic mutation that protects them against malaria. Unfortunately, researchers have found, the mutation may contribute to the higher rate of prostate cancer in African-American men, as well as their higher death rate from the disease. More > - Colorectal Screening for African Americans Should Start at Age 45, Panel Urges - 04/07/2005
A panel of experts from the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) has recommended that African Americans begin screening for colorectal cancer at age 45 rather than age 50. More > - Study: Minorities Prefer Same-Race Doctors - 03/29/2005
More than one in five African-Americans and one in three Hispanic Americans prefer a doctor of the same race or ethnicity, a new study shows. More > - The Unfinished Civil Rights Agenda - 03/09/2005
The March/April issue of Health Affairs, out today, focuses on what one contributor calls "the unfinished civil rights agenda"—persistent racial and ethnic health disparities in access to and quality of health care. More > - Article Reviews Studies To Quantify How Much Improvement in Access to Care Might be Expected if Racial/Ethnic Differences in Insurance Coverage
Were Eliminated - 03/09/2005
The March/April issue of the journal Health Affairs includes a paper written by two Kaiser Family Foundation researchers, entitled "The Role of Health Insurance Coverage in Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care." The paper reviews evidence from sentinel studies specifically designed to quantify the contribution of health insurance to racial/ethnic disparities in access to care. More > - Second National Reports on Quality and Disparities find Improvements in Health Care Quality, although Disparities Remain - 02/22/2005
HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today released its second annual reports on the quality of and disparities in health care in America. More > - A Toolkit for Collection of Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language information in Hospitals - 02/21/2004
The Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) has just released a new Web-based toolkit for collection of race, ethnicity, and primary language information by hospitals and other health care providers. More > - Map of human genetic variation across populations may promise improved disease treatments - 02/17/2005
Mapping of key genetic signposts across three human populations could help speed efforts to pinpoint disease-related DNA variations, and ultimately may promise more effective, individualized treatments. More > - New commission targets health care disparities - 02/11/2005
A major effort to ensure that members of all racial and ethnic groups have equal access to the best health care has to offer was launched Jan. 31 by the AMA, the National Medical Assn. and the National Hispanic Medical Assn. More > - Genes linked to hypertension in blacks
Researchers have identified regions in the human genome linked to high blood pressure in African Americans. More > - Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Multiple Risk Factors for Heart Disease and Stroke --- United States, 2003 - 02/10/2005
Heart disease and stroke are the first and third leading causes of death, respectively, in the United States ( 1 ). Certain modifiable risk factors, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, tobacco use, obesity, and lack of exercise, are the main targets for primary and secondary prevention of heart disease and stroke. More> - Disparities in Screening for and Awareness of High Blood Cholesterol --- United States, 1999--2002 - 02/10/2005
High blood cholesterol is a major modifiable risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (1). Two national health objectives for 2010 are to reduce to 17% the proportion of adults with high total blood cholesterol levels and to increase to 80% the proportion of adults who had their blood cholesterol checked during the preceding 5 years (objectives 12-14 and 12-15) (2). More > - UAB Study Yields New Findings About Race and Stroke Deaths - 02/2/2005
African American men living in the south are at much greater risk of dying from a stroke than any other population in the United States, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). More > - Causes of Death Differ in Blacks And Whites in US - 01/13/2005
In 2002, three of the ten leading causes of death differed between blacks and whites in the US, reflecting disparities in health care, according researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.