A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers shows that obese white women may be less likely than normal-weight counterparts and African-Americans of any weight or gender to seek potentially lifesaving colon cancer screening tests.
• Disease prevalence similar between Hispanics in Puerto Rico and California. • Researchers suggest that biology of disease drives tumor behavior. • Expression of estrogen receptor associated with better prognosis.
Teaching students of all ages about the value of diversity and the serious mental health impacts of bias and stereotyping will help end widespread discrimination in the United States, according to a new American Psychological Association task force report.
President Barack Obama's response to the death of Trayvon Martin represents "a new direction for his often strained approach to racial matters," says Stephanie Li, assistant professor of English at the University of Rochester and author of Signifying Without Specifying: Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama .
In case scenarios, pediatricians who showed an unconscious preference for European Americans tended to prescribe better pain-management for white patients than they did for African-American patients, new University of Washington research shows.
Primary care physicians who hold unconscious racial biases tend to dominate conversations with African-American patients during routine visits, paying less attention to patients’ social and emotional needs and making these patients feel less involved in decision making related to their health, Johns Hopkins researchers report. The patients also reported reduced trust in their doctors, less respectful treatment and a lower likelihood of recommending the biased doctor to a friend.
Just a few minutes of listening to mainstream rock music was enough to influence white college students to favor a student group catering mostly to whites over groups serving other ethnic and racial groups, a new study found.
Southern California cities are now significantly more multiracial than they were 20 years ago, according to a new USC analysis released Thursday. The percentage of multiracial cities in the five-county area climbed from 51.2 percent to 61.5 percent from 1990 to 2010, according to the report by USC’s Population Dynamics Research Group.
A University of Michigan study shows young adults living in poor neighborhoods had more severe pain, disability and were more likely to experience anxiety and depression. The study suggests doctors may need to be more aware of a patient's life circumstances and resources when treating their chronic pain.
A nationwide study of racioethnic representation between retail employees and their customers finds that mirroring a customer base contributes to nearly $100,000 in annual gains or losses per store.
A group of researchers tracing disparities in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the U.S. has found that white males live about seven years longer on average than African American men and that white women live more than five years longer than their black counterparts.
Young adult blacks, especially those with higher levels of education, are significantly less likely to seek mental health services than their white counterparts, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association.
Highly educated whites and minorities are no more likely to support workplace affirmative action programs than are their less educated peers, according to a new study, which casts some doubt on the view that an advanced education is profoundly transformative when it comes to racial attitudes.
Increased Awareness Among Clinicians and Parents Could Lead to Earlier Diagnosis and Intervention for Minority Children with ASD
Highlights: 1) Kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for kidney failure patients, but blacks are less likely to receive kidney transplants than whites. 2) Kidney failure patients—particularly blacks and those living in poor neighborhoods—who take part in an education program are more likely to get evaluated for a kidney transplant. 3) Requiring a formal patient education class may help reduce disparities in kidney failure patients’ access to kidney transplantation.
The rate of diagnosis for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is the same among all racial groups — one in 110, according to current estimates. However, a study by a Florida State University researcher has found that African-American children tend to be diagnosed later than white children, which results in a longer and more intensive intervention.
Soyeon Cho, assistant professor of human services at New York City College of Technology (City Tech) discusses her research that is focused on physical and mental health disparities in the Korean American populations in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and New Jersey (especially Fort Lee and Palisades Park).
A new study has found, for the first time, that health disparities have grown dramatically among people in the same socioeconomic groups – often times more than the disparities have grown between groups.
During Black History Month this February, Drexel University experts are available to help news media with a variety of topics.
Analysis of the Blair-Rockefeller Poll shows that stereotypes stigmatizing African Americans and Latinos remain strong.
Despite notable improvements in educational levels and opportunity during the past three decades, disadvantages associated with race still persist in Brazil, according to new research at The University of Texas at Austin.
The American social hierarchy places people of mixed-race ancestry below whites but above blacks, while additional social stratifications along color lines are simultaneously taking place within the nation's multiracial groups, according to a Johns Hopkins University sociologist's study of U.S. Census data.
Love is not enough if you are a white parent of an adopted black child. That’s the premise behind Wichita State University assistant professor Darron T. Smith’s recently published book “White Parents, Black Children: Experiencing Transracial Adoption.”
A study in the December issue of the American Sociological Review has brought new understanding as to why death rates for less educated middle aged adults are much higher than for their more educated peers despite increased awareness and treatments aimed at reducing health disparities.
• Hispanic women had a 20 percent increased risk for death from breast cancer. • Tumor-related factors may primarily account for this difference. • Hispanic women may be more likely to have a tumor phenotype resistant to chemotherapy.
WASHINGTON – A new report from The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services’ Department of Health Policy (GW) uncovered an overall wage differential between those of normal weight and those who are obese, especially when it comes to women. The research, released today, demonstrates the impact obesity may have on a person’s paycheck.
Black senior citizens who need surgery for the intestinal disorder diverticulitis are significantly more likely to die in the hospital than their equally ill white counterparts, even when each racial group carries the same health insurance, new Johns Hopkins research suggests.
For black American adults, perceived racism may cause mental health symptoms similar to trauma and could lead to some physical health disparities between blacks and other populations in the United States, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association.
White heart transplant patients under the age of 18 are more than twice as likely to be alive a decade after surgery as their African-American counterparts, new Johns Hopkins research suggests.
The political outlook of blacks in America has undergone dramatic swings in the last ten years — from the depths of powerlessness during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, to the zenith with the election of the first black president, Barack Obama. Now, with another election looming, blacks confront new issues as they judge the impact of Obama’s election.
Ethnic differences in appointment keeping may be an important factor in poor health outcomes among some minority patients with diabetes, according to a new study.
Academic study from USC and University of San Diego professors shows how mistreatment when coupled with race can make consumers pay more for goods and services to elevate status.
The majority of people arrested in a federal immigration enforcement program are jailed without bond, without access to a lawyer, and without a court hearing, according to a new report. Researchers analyzed data obtained through Freedom of Information Act.
New research based on post-hospital arrival data from U.S. trauma centers finds that even after adjusting for differences in injury severity, gun use, and other likely causes of race difference in death from assault, African-Americans have a significantly higher overall post-scene of injury mortality rate than whites.
Researchers sought to determine if racial health disparities typically reported in national studies remain the same when black and white Americans live in integrated settings.
Racial perception is altered by cues as simple as clothes. Computerized faces with business attire were more likely to be seen as White while faces with blue-collar attire were seen as Black. Tracking trajectories of the computer mouse used in choosing a race revealed subtle bias.
1) Differences could explain the higher rates of prostate cancer and mortality. 2) Understanding differences could lead to specialized treatment.
1) Race should be considered when recommending vitamin D supplementation. 2) Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to multiple diseases.
Residents of the small Texas city of Jasper banded together in 1998 to fight their racist image following the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. Baylor researchers conducted a study for more than a decade to see how the city has struggled since being unfairly stereotyped.
Seriously injured patients cared for at hospitals serving larger numbers of minorities are significantly more likely to die than those treated at hospitals serving mostly whites — regardless of the race of the patient, new Johns Hopkins research suggests.
1) African ancestry linked to increased rates of high-risk disease. 2) Variants may be found in patients of any ethnic makeup.
1) Deaths from acute leukemia higher in blacks and Hispanics. 2) Racial disparity is greater in ALL than AML. 3) Reason unknown but researchers suspect socioeconomic factors.
1) Overall incidence of breast cancer is higher among white women. 2) 4 percent of women developed cancer in the opposite breast. 3) Physicians should carefully watch the opposite breast for signs of disease.
1) Few women underwent ovarian or colorectal screening. 2) One-third of the participants met the criteria for depression. 3) Depression linked to ovarian, but not colorectal screening noncompliance.
A new study of interracial marriages in the United States since the 1980s suggests that the racial boundary between blacks and whites continues to break down – but is not yet close to disappearing.
Why are African Americans more likely than Caucasians to be not only diagnosed with head and neck cancer, but also die from the disease? While the answer isn’t a simple one, differences in lifestyle, access to care and tumor genetics may, in part, be to blame, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital.
As a Sept. 21 execution date looms for a man convicted for his role in chaining and dragging a black man to his death, attention again will be focused on the small East Texas town of Jasper, vilified worldwide as racist after the murder in 1998.
New Johns Hopkins research shows that medical students — just like the general American population — may have unconscious if not overt preferences for white people, but this innate bias does not appear to translate into different or lesser health care of other races.
Barriers that hinder young African-American, Hispanic and poor women from completing a series of three vaccinations to prevent human papillomavirus infection (HPV) also leave them at higher risk for cervical cancer and death
Kinesiology professor Michael Brown has found that differences in the way African American cells respond to inflammation could be a cause of higher rates of hypertension among this group.
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