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7-Jun-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Chemicals in Personal Care Products Cause Harmful Effects in Breast Cancer Cells From Black Women
Endocrine Society

Chemicals called parabens, which are found in widely used hair and personal care products, cause harmful effects in breast cancer cells from Black women, according to a new study being presented Sunday at ENDO 2022, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Atlanta, Ga.

7-Jun-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Bias May Play a Role in Underdiagnoses of Prediabetes
Endocrine Society

The accurate diagnosis of prediabetes in the primary care setting might depend on a patient’s age, BMI, gender, race and certain comorbidities, according to research being presented at ENDO 2022, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Atlanta, Ga.

Released: 9-Jun-2022 11:20 AM EDT
UCI Is Founding Member of Hispanic Serving Research Universities Alliance
University of California, Irvine

Irvine, Calif., June 9, 2022 — The University of California, Irvine is a founding member of the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities, a foundation of 20 of the nation’s top research universities which are partnering to increase opportunity for those historically underserved by higher education. The HSRU Alliance aims to achieve two key goals by 2030: Double the number of enrolled Hispanic doctoral students and increase by 20 percent the Hispanic professoriate in alliance universities.

6-Jun-2022 12:05 PM EDT
Diversity Messages May Backfire When Companies Focus on Diversity's Benefits for the Bottom Line
American Psychological Association (APA)

Companies that justify their diversity efforts by saying that a diverse workforce will improve their bottom line risk alienating the diverse employees that they hope to attract, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

   
Released: 9-Jun-2022 6:05 AM EDT
Do optimists live longer?
Wiley

In a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that included a racially diverse group of 159,255 women, higher levels of optimism were associated with longer lifespans and a greater likelihood of living past 90 years of age.

1-Jun-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Rental seekers with foreign-sounding names get fewer callbacks from landlords
PLOS

Swedish study shows applications with Arabic/Muslim-sounding names get especially few callbacks.

Newswise: Black, Hispanic Patients Less Likely to Get Lifesaving Liver Cancer Treatment
Released: 7-Jun-2022 7:05 PM EDT
Black, Hispanic Patients Less Likely to Get Lifesaving Liver Cancer Treatment
Cedars-Sinai

Racial and ethnic minorities diagnosed with advanced liver cancer have a lower chance of receiving immunotherapy, the most effective treatment for patients with the disease, according to a new study led by Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators.

Released: 7-Jun-2022 4:05 PM EDT
Racial Disparities in Traffic Fatalities Much Wider Than Previously Known
Boston University School of Medicine

In 2021, nearly 43,000 people died in motor vehicle-related crashes in the United States—the highest number of US traffic fatalities since 2005, and more than a 10 percent increase from 2020 mortality estimates. Meanwhile, US pedestrian deaths have reached a 40-year high.

2-Jun-2022 11:00 AM EDT
Disparities in Opioid Treatment Access Remain for Women, Black and Hispanic People
Mayo Clinic

Buprenorphine is a prescription approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that effectively treats opioid dependence or addiction. But women, as well as Black and Hispanic populations, do not have equal access to this potentially lifesaving medication, new Mayo Clinic research finds.

Released: 2-Jun-2022 5:05 PM EDT
Black Youth in Racist Communities Fare Worse in Mental Health Treatment
Elsevier

A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), published by Elsevier, reports that Black youth living in communities with high (vs. low) anti-Black racism are less likely to benefit from psychotherapy ("talk therapy;" such as cognitive behavioral therapy).

   
Newswise: Multimillion-Dollar Scholarship Program to Help African American Students in Physics, Astronomy Toward Graduation
Released: 2-Jun-2022 10:00 AM EDT
Multimillion-Dollar Scholarship Program to Help African American Students in Physics, Astronomy Toward Graduation
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

TEAM-UP Together announces the launch of a multimillion-dollar scholarship program focused on rolling back underrepresentation of African American students in physics and astronomy over the next five years. The program will provide financial assistance to those students to help them achieve their bachelor's degrees and the awards of up to $10,000 per student per school year aim to reduce the financial barriers preventing many Black students from completing their undergraduate degree programs in physics and astronomy.

26-May-2022 2:50 PM EDT
Black, Hispanic People More Likely to Die than White People After Some Types of Stroke
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

Black and Hispanic people are more likely to die in the first month after certain types of stroke than white people, according to a study published in the June 1, 2022, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Released: 1-Jun-2022 2:30 PM EDT
Study Continues Assessment of Cognition and Decline in Aging Latinos
UC San Diego Health

Researchers at UC San Diego have received a $25.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging to continue the Study of Latinos-Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging, a 12-year assessment of cognitive and brain aging and impairment among aging Latinos.

Newswise: Study: Black Overdose Death Rate Doubles in Kentucky
Released: 1-Jun-2022 9:50 AM EDT
Study: Black Overdose Death Rate Doubles in Kentucky
University of Kentucky

The rate of deadly drug overdoses among Black people in Kentucky more than doubled from 2016 to 2020, according to a new analysis by University of Kentucky researchers. The Black overdose mortality rate increased by nearly 117% — from 21.2 deaths for every 100,000 people in 2016 to 46.0 per 100,000 in 2020, according to the research published in the journal Public Health Reports.

Newswise: Common Medical Tool May Delay Treatment of Nonwhite Patients with COVID-19
Released: 31-May-2022 11:00 AM EDT
Common Medical Tool May Delay Treatment of Nonwhite Patients with COVID-19
Johns Hopkins Medicine

A retrospective analysis of over 7,000 patients with COVID-19 found that pulse oximeter devices — tools that measure oxygen levels in the blood and that are used in virtually every U.S. hospital — overestimated blood oxygen levels in non-White patients.

Newswise: Critical Race Theory at Center of UW Study of Unequal Access to Treatment for Opioid Addiction
Released: 27-May-2022 5:05 PM EDT
Critical Race Theory at Center of UW Study of Unequal Access to Treatment for Opioid Addiction
University of Washington

With a $2.5 million National Institutes of Health grant, researchers at the University of Washington will explore one of the most important questions related to a federal emergency policy change: whether those changes helped with another opioid-related crisis — the unequal access experienced by Black and Latinx patients to buprenorphine.

26-May-2022 11:05 AM EDT
Firearms Are Leading Cause of Death Among U.S. Youth
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Firearms are now the leading cause of death for children and adolescents 0-19 years of age, with a staggering 83 percent increase in youth firearm fatalities over the past decade, according to a commentary published in Lancet Child and Adolescent Health. Nearly two-thirds of youth firearm deaths were from homicides. Strikingly, Black youth had an unprecedented 40 percent increase in firearm fatalities between 2019 to 2020.



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