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Released: 26-Oct-2022 10:00 AM EDT
Penn Medicine Partners with American Cancer Society, the Consulate of Mexico in Philadelphia and Univision for Annual Breast Cancer Screening Event to Drive Screenings for Latina Women
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Hospital will team up with the American Cancer Society, the Consulate of Mexico in Philadelphia and Univision 65 to host an annual breast cancer screening event on Friday, October 28, by providing free mammograms to uninsured and underinsured women in the Philadelphia community.

Released: 26-Oct-2022 9:50 AM EDT
Bringing Needed Diversity and Inclusion to America’s Art Museums
Tufts University

Curator Kelli Morgan started the new Anti-Racist Curatorial Practice certificate program at Tufts, which enrolled its first class this September. The online program is aimed at providing museum professionals with “a comparative understanding of museum development, art history, and curatorial practice, and the ways that each traditionally functions in service of larger discriminatory systems,” she says.

Released: 25-Oct-2022 3:55 PM EDT
Non-White Newborns With Cystic Fibrosis More Likely To Be Missed In Screening
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Cystic fibrosis is missed more often in newborn screenings for non-white than white babies, creating higher risk for irreversible lung damage and other serious outcomes in Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian and Alaska Native newborns, a new study finds.

Released: 25-Oct-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Where AI and disinformation meet
Arizona State University (ASU)

ASU business professor says cyber adversaries will look to midterm elections to stir the pot with voters, with most of the hyperbolic chatter coming from malicious bots spreading racism and hate on social media and in the comments section on news sites.

Newswise: The Future of the Supreme Court: A Conversation with Law Professor Richard W. Garnett
Released: 24-Oct-2022 4:05 PM EDT
The Future of the Supreme Court: A Conversation with Law Professor Richard W. Garnett
University of Notre Dame

Richard W. Garnett is the University of Notre Dame’s Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law, director of the Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society and a concurrent professor of political science. Garnett discusses the future of the Supreme Court.

Released: 24-Oct-2022 2:30 PM EDT
New Muses Project Injects Diversity Into Classical Music Choices
Cornell University

The New Muses Project is a platform that provides recommendations of composers based on a person’s current preferences.

Released: 24-Oct-2022 12:15 PM EDT
Significant Number of Seniors Rely on Failing Public Transit Systems to Get to Medical Appointments
University of Maryland School of Medicine

About one in 10 seniors who live in cities reported that they use public transportation, and 20 percent of older transit users said they relied on trains and buses to get to their doctor appointments.

Newswise: Study: Concerns over COVID-19 vaccine’s effectiveness, not general medical mistrust, slowed early uptake in Black, Latinx communities
Released: 24-Oct-2022 12:05 PM EDT
Study: Concerns over COVID-19 vaccine’s effectiveness, not general medical mistrust, slowed early uptake in Black, Latinx communities
DePaul University

New research on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Black, Latinx communities could help shape more persuasive messages to boost uptake.

   
Newswise: Lynne Holden, M.D., Named Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Released: 24-Oct-2022 11:00 AM EDT
Lynne Holden, M.D., Named Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Albert Einstein College of Medicine has appointed national diversity innovator and emergency medicine physician Lynne M. Holden, M.D., senior associate dean for diversity and inclusion (D&I). Dr. Holden, a member of Einstein’s faculty since 1996, is an accomplished leader both within her medical discipline and in her efforts to help diversify the medical workforce.

Newswise: AERA Releases the Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers
Released: 24-Oct-2022 10:05 AM EDT
AERA Releases the Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers
American Educational Research Association (AERA)

The American Educational Research Association has released the Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers, edited by Conra D. Gist and Travis J. Bristol.

11-Oct-2022 12:00 PM EDT
Systemic racism plays role in much higher maternal mortality rate among Black women
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

Black women have a 53% increased risk of dying in the hospital during childbirth, no matter their income level, type of insurance or other social determinants of health, suggesting systemic racism seriously impacts maternal health, according to an 11-year analysis of more than 9 million deliveries in U.S. hospitals being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2022 annual meeting.

Released: 21-Oct-2022 4:10 PM EDT
US Food Insufficiency Spiked by 25% After Monthly Child Tax Credits Expired
Boston University School of Public Health

In the months after the advance federal Child Tax Credit cash payments ended in December 2021, low-income families with children struggled the most to afford enough food.

Released: 20-Oct-2022 5:15 PM EDT
Study Reveals Disparities in Childbearing by Race and Education Level
Yale University

College-educated Black women in the United States give birth to fewer children than their white and Hispanic counterparts, according to a new study coauthored by Yale sociologist Emma Zang.

   
18-Oct-2022 11:00 AM EDT
Outreach by Local Groups Essential for Expanding Access to At-Home COVID-19 Testing in Vulnerable Communities
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Community-based groups can be more effective than health-care organizations at expanding access to at-home COVID-19 testing in underserved communities, according to a Rutgers study.

Newswise: UIC to Lead $8.8M Grant Analyzing What ‘Blackness’ Means in STEM
Released: 20-Oct-2022 2:45 PM EDT
UIC to Lead $8.8M Grant Analyzing What ‘Blackness’ Means in STEM
University of Illinois Chicago

The five-year project will culminate in a national survey

Released: 20-Oct-2022 12:20 PM EDT
World Language: Initiative to Spotlight Korean Linguistics on a Global Stage
Binghamton University, State University of New York

A new three-year grant for more than $200,000 from the South Korean government will help spotlight the Korean language and its impact both in the region and larger world.

Released: 20-Oct-2022 9:00 AM EDT
Prenatal care for foreign-born Latinx people dropped during 2016 presidential campaign
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

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 the November issue of Medical Care. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

   


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