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Released: 1-Mar-2021 2:15 PM EST
The Vilcek Foundation opens applications for the 2022 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science
Vilcek Foundation

The Vilcek Foundation has announced an open call for applications for the 2022 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science.

   
Released: 1-Mar-2021 12:05 PM EST
Reinforced by policies, charters segregate schools
Cornell University

The expansion of charter schools in the 2000s led to an increase in school segregation and a slight decline in residential segregation, according to new research from Cornell University providing the first national estimates of the diverging trends.

Released: 1-Mar-2021 11:45 AM EST
Rutgers Female Professors Reflect on Past Year of Racial Unrest, Pandemic
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

After a year of racial unrest due to the killing of unarmed Black men and women and the upending of our regular lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many have forged a new outlook on life. Two Black Rutgers female faculty share their reflections on the past year and their hopes for the future.

   
25-Feb-2021 2:55 PM EST
Medical School Curriculum Takes Aim at Social Determinants of Health
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

There is a growing recognition in health care that social factors such as racial bias, access to care and housing and food insecurity, have a significant impact on people’s health. Compounding and amplifying those underlying inequalities are the ongoing disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest in our country.

Released: 26-Feb-2021 1:50 PM EST
Heart month: Researchers create Texas’ first statewide cardiac arrest registry, highlight racial disparities in CPR training
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Projections from Texas’ first cardiac arrest registry show that every day at least 60 Texans will suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, which is a sudden loss of heart function, breathing, and consciousness. If bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is performed, the victim’s chance of survival can triple, but less than half of victims in the Lone Star State receive any bystander CPR, according to data from the registry.

26-Feb-2021 9:30 AM EST
Researchers Uncover Link Between Racial, Ethnic and Socioeconomic Factors and Likelihood of Getting Effective Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Even though the use of rhythm control strategies for treating Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation (AF), a common abnormal heart rhythm, have increased overall in the United States, patients from racial and ethnic minority groups and those with lower income were less likely to receive rhythm control treatment - often the preferred treatment - according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Released: 25-Feb-2021 7:30 PM EST
Diversity Among Study Participants Credited with Identifying Gene Linked to Asthma
Henry Ford Health

Researchers at Henry Ford Health System, as part of a national asthma collaborative, have identified a gene variant associated with childhood asthma that underscores the importance of including diverse patient populations in research studies. The study is published in the print version of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Released: 25-Feb-2021 6:05 PM EST
Rutgers Cancer Health Justice Lab Creates COVID-19 Educational Video in Spanish
Rutgers School of Public Health

COVID-19 disproportionately impacts Latinx families more than any other racial and ethnic group, yet there are few available resources to mitigate these risks. The Rutgers School of Public Health’s Cancer Health Justice Lab has launched an educational COVID-19 video in Spanish to address the lack of resources available to Latinx families.

Released: 25-Feb-2021 3:40 PM EST
Argonne’s first Black director reflects on science, inequality and a new honor
Argonne National Laboratory

Walter Massey, the lab’s first Black director, looks back on his time at Argonne and discusses the inequities of minorities in science in light of a new Argonne Fellowship named for him.

Released: 25-Feb-2021 2:35 PM EST
Survey reveals racial, political differences in COVID-19 responses
Michigan State University

A study from Michigan State University that found in spite of Black Americans’ attitudes toward proper precautions, they are disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and White people are less likely to fall ill.

   
Released: 25-Feb-2021 12:55 PM EST
Black Females More Likely Than Black Males to Exercise, Eat Healthy When Faced with Perceived Discrimination
American Psychological Association (APA)

Black men and women, as well as adolescent boys and girls, may react differently to perceived racial discrimination, with Black women and girls engaging in more exercise and better eating habits than Black men and boys when faced with discrimination, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

22-Feb-2021 2:40 PM EST
Current Liver Cancer Screenings May Leave African Americans at Greater Risk
Mount Sinai Health System

Early detection could reduce the number of African Americans dying from liver cancer, but current screening guidelines may not find cancer soon enough in this community, according to a study published in Cancer in February.

Released: 24-Feb-2021 3:45 PM EST
Chicago’s racial wealth gap examined in new UIC report
University of Illinois Chicago

Interviews by the University of Illinois Chicago’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy highlight the precarity of many Black and Latino families who have ‘made it’

Released: 24-Feb-2021 12:05 PM EST
COVID-19 Risk Factors for Healthcare Workers: Race, Ethnicity
Cedars-Sinai

Healthcare workers might not be so different from the general population in the factors that determine their risk of getting COVID-19. A new study led by Cedars-Sinai shows that healthcare workers are more likely to have antibodies to COVID-19 in their blood if they are African American or Latino or have hypertension.

Released: 24-Feb-2021 11:45 AM EST
Losing Obamacare protections during pandemic could increase health disparities
Oregon Health & Science University

If Affordable Care Act protections for pre-existing condition coverage are no longer available, the coronavirus pandemic would leave many Americans - a disproportionate number of whom are people of color - without health insurance, a new Oregon Health & Science University study indicates.

   
Released: 24-Feb-2021 9:00 AM EST
Ancestry estimation perpetuates racism, white supremacy
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Ancestry estimation -- a method used by forensic anthropologists to determine ancestral origin by analyzing bone structures -- is rooted in “race science” and perpetuates white supremacy, according to a new paper by a forensic anthropologist at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

18-Feb-2021 9:00 AM EST
Waitlist Policies May Contribute to Racial Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplantation
American Society of Nephrology (ASN)

• Racial disparities in access to kidney transplantation persist in the United States. New research indicates that registering Black patients on the kidney transplant waitlist at a slightly higher level of kidney function compared with white patients might lessen racial inequality in patients’ wait time prior to kidney failure onset, and ultimately improve racial equity in access to kidney transplantation.

Released: 23-Feb-2021 1:00 PM EST
First “Race, Ethnicity and Alzheimer’s in America” Report and Updated 2021 Alzheimer’s Facts & Figures Report
Alzheimer's Association

The forthcoming 2021 Alzheimer’s Association Facts & Figures Report, as well as a new supplemental report “Race, Ethnicity and Alzheimer’s in America,” will be released March 2. Facts and Figures provides in-depth information on Alzheimer’s and other dementias in the U.S., including the latest stats on prevalence, mortality, costs, caregiving and other insights both nationally and with state by state data.

Released: 22-Feb-2021 1:30 PM EST
Leading Health and Cancer Advocacy Groups Unite to Reduce Racial Disparities in Cancer Care
National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) and the National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF) presented new ideas for overcoming inequality in oncology. The recommendations address how medical systems often disproportionately fail minority patients.

Released: 22-Feb-2021 11:55 AM EST
Ida B. Wells Scholarship Fund announced at UIC
University of Illinois Chicago

The Ida B. Wells Scholarship Fund has been created to meet some of the needs of African American students to help them receive their degrees.

Released: 19-Feb-2021 11:55 AM EST
Researchers publish call to action for research ethics in the time of COVID-19 and BLM
University of Illinois Chicago

In their paper “Ethics of Research at the Intersection of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter: A Call to Action,” UIC faculty authors highlight the historical issues that impact research involving Black populations. They also provide recommendations for researchers to ethically engage Black populations in research. The article is published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Released: 18-Feb-2021 2:35 PM EST
American Institute of Physics to Host Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon, Raise Awareness of Black Physicists
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

To highlight and enhance the awareness of Black physicists, the American Institute of Physics is partnering with Black in Physics to host a Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon to address inaccuracies and incomplete information on the popular resource website about African American and Black scientists. The event will take place during the last week of Black History Month, Feb. 22-26, and bring together volunteers in the physics community to build and edit Wikipedia pages about Black physicists.

Released: 18-Feb-2021 1:00 PM EST
AI may mistake chess discussions as racist talk
Carnegie Mellon University

"The Queen's Gambit," the recent TV mini-series about a chess master, may have stirred increased interest in chess, but a word to the wise: social media talk about game-piece colors could lead to misunderstandings, at least for hate-speech detection software.

17-Feb-2021 3:05 PM EST
New recommendations aim to eliminate racial bias in myeloma trials
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Recommendations designed to address the under-representation of African Americans in clinical trials for multiple myeloma (MM), a blood cancer that is twice as deadly in this demographic as in whites.

17-Feb-2021 9:50 AM EST
Mount Sinai Experts Address the Biological Causes of Racial Disparities in Prostate Cancer
Mount Sinai Health System

African Americans have higher rates of prostate cancer and are more likely to die from the disease than other groups in the United States, likely due to socioeconomic factors, healthcare access problems, and tumor biology.

Released: 17-Feb-2021 5:35 PM EST
Initiative to Bring $100 Million to 1,000 Black-owned Businesses
Cal Poly Humboldt

Looking to take a bite out of COVID-19 losses and rebuild a suffering segment of the economy, The Inclusivity Project, led by Humboldt State University’s Northern California Small Business Development Center, launched with the goal of securing $100 million for 1,000 Black-owned businesses.

Released: 16-Feb-2021 5:05 PM EST
Roswell Park Awarded Nearly $2 Million to Study Cause of Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

A research team headed by Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center epidemiologist Zhihong Gong, PhD, has been awarded a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Cancer Institute for an investigation into the role that certain genetic molecules play in breast cancer disparities.

Released: 15-Feb-2021 11:05 AM EST
What we don’t understand about poverty in America
Washington University in St. Louis

What if the idealized image of American society — a land of opportunity that will reward hard work with economic success — is completely wrong?“Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty,” a new book from Mark Rank, a leading academic expert on poverty, explores this concept.It is the first book to systematically address and confront many of the most widespread myths pertaining to poverty.

Released: 12-Feb-2021 11:30 AM EST
US cities segregated not just by where people live, but where they travel daily
Brown University

One thing that decades of social science research has made abundantly clear? Americans in urban areas live in neighborhoods deeply segregated by race -- and they always have.

Released: 11-Feb-2021 7:05 PM EST
Mexico’s poor have little luck obtaining opioids intended for palliative care
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Despite a Mexican government initiative launched in 2015 to improve access to prescription opioids among palliative care patients, the country has seen only a marginal increase in dispensing levels, and inequities in dispensing have left many of the nation’s poorest residents without comfort in their final days

Released: 11-Feb-2021 1:35 PM EST
Study: reparations for slavery could have reduced COVID-19 infections and deaths in U.S.
Harvard Medical School

New study suggests monetary reparations for Black descendants of people enslaved in the United States could have cut SARS-CoV-2 transmission and COVID-19 rates both among Black individuals and the population at large. Researchers modeled the impact of structural racism on viral transmission and disease impact in the state of Louisiana. The higher burden of SARS-CoV-2 infection among Black people also amplified the virus’s spread in the wider population. Reparations could have reduced SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the overall population by as much as 68 percent. Compared with white people, Black individuals in the United States are more likely to be infected with SARS-CoV-2, more likely to end up in the hospital with COVID-19, and more likely to die from the disease.

   
Released: 11-Feb-2021 12:05 PM EST
Heart Structure May Play Role in Stroke Risk Disparities Between Black and White People
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

Researchers have found that differences in the left atrium in the hearts of Black people and white people may play a role in risk of stroke, according to a new study published in the November 25, 2020, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Released: 11-Feb-2021 11:40 AM EST
Low-Income Middle-Aged African-American Women with Hypertension Are Likely to Suffer from Depression
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Low-income middle-aged African-American women with high blood pressure very commonly suffer from depression and should be better screened for this serious mental health condition.

8-Feb-2021 9:00 AM EST
Chinese people may be more susceptible to obesity-related health risks than other racial, ethnic groups
Endocrine Society

Chinese people are more likely to face high blood pressure and other health risks as a result of higher body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference than people from other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Released: 10-Feb-2021 2:05 PM EST
Little Rock Congregations Study shows impact of COVID-19 on religious institutions
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

The results of the 2020 Little Rock Congregations Study (LRCS), a research project based at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, shows that COVID-19 had a major impact on religious institutions in Little Rock. 

Released: 10-Feb-2021 12:50 PM EST
Most U.S. Schools Teaching Black History, But Few Doing It Well
 Johns Hopkins University

As the United States marks Black History Month this year, more K-12 schools in the United States are teaching Black history than ever before. However, ongoing analysis from Johns Hopkins University finds these efforts often fail, because coursework emphasizes the negative aspects of African American life while omitting important contributions made by families of color in literature, politics, theology, art, and medicine.

Released: 9-Feb-2021 11:20 AM EST
How to talk to patients of color about the COVID-19 vaccine amid hesitancy and mistrust
University of Chicago Medical Center

A new Annals of Internal Medicine editorial co-authored by a University of Chicago Medicine health disparities researcher offers practical tips for clinicians to discuss the COVID-19 vaccine with patients of color who may be hesitant to get vaccinated.

Released: 8-Feb-2021 3:55 PM EST
Addressing Breastfeeding Disparities for African American Mothers
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

An abundance of data underscore the importance of breastfeeding and human milk for the optimal health of infants, children, mothers, and society. But while breastfeeding initiation rates have increased to more than 80% in the U.S., a disparity exists for African American mothers and infants. In this group, breastfeeding is initiated only about 69% of the time.

Released: 5-Feb-2021 3:30 PM EST
Gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots' is being widened by the COVID pandemic, an IU study found
Indiana University

A new study by Indiana University found women, younger individuals, those with lower levels of formal education, and people of color are being hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Released: 5-Feb-2021 2:40 PM EST
To counter health impacts of racism, UW School of Nursing establishing Center for Antiracism in Nursing
University of Washington

Recognizing that nurses play a central role in and hold major responsibility for the health of individuals and communities hit hard by historic racial inequity, the University of Washington School of Nursing is launching the Center for Antiracism in Nursing.

Released: 4-Feb-2021 1:10 PM EST
Food Allergies Are More Common Among Black Children
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Black children have significantly higher rates of shellfish and fish allergies than White children, in addition to having higher odds of wheat allergy, suggesting that race may play an important role in how children are affected by food allergies, researchers at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Rush University Medical Center and two other hospitals have found.

Released: 4-Feb-2021 12:55 PM EST
Systemic Racism & Health Care: Building Black Confidence in the COVID-19 Vaccine
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)

The Tuskegee syphilis experiment. The secret sale of Henrietta Lacks cancer research cells. Jim Crow laws affecting African Americans' ability to receive medical treatment. For weeks, it’s been hard to hear over the clamor of millions of Americans lining up for COVID-19 vaccines. But not everyone has been enthused — namely, large swaths of minority communities, which comprise the populations disproportionately impacted by the virus, but whose hesitance is largely fueled by the country’s racist medical past.

Released: 4-Feb-2021 12:50 PM EST
FSMB Symposium on Racism and Disparities in Health Care Now Available Online
Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB)

The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) released today a video recording of “Health Equity and Medical Regulation: How Disparities are Impacting U.S. Health Care Quality and Delivery and Why it Matters" – a symposium it hosted on January 26. The recording of the event is accessible for public viewing.

Released: 4-Feb-2021 9:00 AM EST
Where Black Americans Will Travel Farther than Whites for COVID-19 Vaccination
Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh

Similar to the idea of "food deserts," many urban Black neighborhoods lack pharmacies, clinics, hospitals or health centers that can administer COVID-19 vaccines. The analysis, including a detailed facility map, points to the places where there is a need for temporary mass vaccination sites.

   


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