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Released: 3-Jan-2020 11:30 AM EST
Migrating Health Professionals’ Recruitment Experiences Are Mostly Positive, But Ethical Problems Remain
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

Foreign-educated health professionals (FEHPs) in the United States are generally satisfied with their recruitment experience despite the persistence of certain unethical practices, the first major survey of the U.S. international nurse recruitment industry in more than a decade has found. While strides have been made in the realm of ethical international recruitment, there is still room for improvement.

Released: 2-Jan-2020 2:25 PM EST
Bystander CPR Less Likely for People Living in Hispanic Neighborhoods Compared to Non-Hispanic Neighborhoods
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

People living in predominately Hispanic neighborhoods are less likely to receive CPR from a bystander following an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest compared to people living in non-Hispanic neighborhoods, researchers from Penn Medicine and the Duke University of School of Medicine reported in the journal Circulation. This same group also had a lower likelihood of survival.

13-Dec-2019 9:00 AM EST
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Mortality for Patients on Dialysis in U.S. Territories and States
American Society of Nephrology (ASN)

• In an analysis of patients treated with dialysis in the 5 U.S. territories and the 50 U.S. states between 1995 and 2012, the mortality rates were similar for Whites or Blacks, and higher for Hispanics and Asians in the territories.

Released: 17-Dec-2019 8:05 PM EST
Congressional Task Force Report: Black Youth Suicide Rates Rising, Defying Historic Trends
New York University

Titled “Ring the Alarm: the Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America,” the Task Force report includes a research section summarizing the current state of studies about Black youth, suicide and suicidal behaviors.

   
12-Dec-2019 4:30 PM EST
Primary Care Declines in America
Harvard Medical School

National analysis reveals alarming decline in primary care use. Primary care is associated with better health outcomes than episodic, inconsistent care.

Released: 15-Dec-2019 3:05 PM EST
Black Teens Face Racial Discrimination Multiple Times Daily, Suffer Depressive Symptoms as a Result
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Black Teens Face Racial Discrimination Multiple Times Daily, Suffer Depressive Symptoms as a Result

Released: 12-Dec-2019 2:15 PM EST
Supreme Court victory hinged on evidence of racism
Cornell University

Cornell Law School professors Sheri Lynn Johnson and Keir Weyble took over Curtis Flowers' appeal to the Supreme Court and won.

Released: 12-Dec-2019 8:30 AM EST
Clinical Research Pathways Partners with WellStar Health System to Increase Diversity in Clinical Trials
Clinical Research Pathways

Clinical Research Pathways, an Atlanta-based non-profit, announces a grant to Wellstar Health System designed to increase diversity in oncology-related clinical trials

Released: 10-Dec-2019 2:10 PM EST
'Ojos' study to examine eye disease in Latino communities
University of Illinois Chicago

With $9.7 million in funding from the National Eye Institute, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago will study the impact of chronic eye disease among Latinos.

9-Dec-2019 4:00 PM EST
Genetic Breakthrough Identifies Heart Failure Risk in African and Latino Americans
Mount Sinai Health System

Findings may inform genetic screening test for patients at risk and medically under-served

2-Dec-2019 12:00 PM EST
Permanent hair dye and straighteners may increase breast cancer risk
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health found that women who use permanent hair dye and chemical hair straighteners have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than women who don’t use these products. The study suggests that breast cancer risk increased with more frequent use of these chemical hair products.

Released: 3-Dec-2019 12:35 PM EST
New prevention program uses emergency room to reach black women at risk for HIV
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

With a disproportionate number of black cisgender women in the U.S. becoming HIV positive, researchers are sharing critical health information through an atypical venue: the emergency room.

Released: 3-Dec-2019 9:00 AM EST
How to Design for Real Race-Intelligent Inclusion
University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Do diversity and inclusion efforts do what they’re intended to? Professor Martin Davidson, Darden’s senior associate dean and global chief diversity officer, discusses workplace practices that encourage a culture of race-intelligent inclusion and greater understanding of the needs of black people.

29-Nov-2019 5:00 PM EST
Post doc interviews in the life sciences may promote bias
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)

Post-doctoral training is a critical career stage for researchers in the life sciences yet interviewing for a post-doctoral position is largely an unregulated process. Without regulation, interviews are susceptible to unconscious biases that may lead to discrimination against certain demographic groups (e.g., women and minorities). Using data from an online survey of post-docs, we show that interview procedures for post-doctoral positions in the life sciences are correlated with several factors (e.g., candidate demographics) in ways that may bias the outcome of interviews. We discuss key components of interviews and suggest that conducting standardized, well-planned interviews that are less susceptible to unconscious biases may help increase the retention of women and under-represented minorities in the life sciences.

Released: 26-Nov-2019 3:45 PM EST
Dads in prison can bring poverty, instability for families on the outside
University of Washington

A new University of Washington study finds that families with a father in prison tend to live in neighborhoods with higher poverty.

Released: 20-Nov-2019 3:50 PM EST
LGBTQ beauty vloggers draw on queer culture to stand out
Cornell University

New Cornell research explores how a racially diverse group of LGBTQ beauty vloggers navigates seemingly contradictory roles: masculine and feminine; authentic and heavily made up. The vloggers often provide unpaid content to YouTube, but have the potential to enrich themselves; they’re vulnerable to harassment, but they also promote the visibility of marginalized people.

Released: 20-Nov-2019 12:35 PM EST
Rutgers Professor on How Harriet Tubman “Came to Slay”
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

With the release of the film Harriet, Rutgers scholar Erica Armstrong Dunbar said it’s a good time to shed light on Tubman’s life not only as the famed Underground Railroad conductor, but as a sister, a daughter, a wife, a mother and a woman.

Released: 20-Nov-2019 10:25 AM EST
Philadelphia Foundation Grants $100,000 To Penn Nursing From Robert I. Jacobs Fund for HIV Prevention Study
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Penn Nursing has received a $100,000 grant from the Robert I. Jacobs Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation for HIV research. The grant supports an investigation, “Youth-driven Perspectives in HIV Biomedical Prevention and Cure Research,” led by José A. Bauermeister, PhD, MPH, Presidential Professor of Nursing.

15-Nov-2019 11:00 AM EST
Exposure to air pollutants from power plants varies by race, income and geography
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Researchers report in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology that pollutant exposure varies with certain demographic factors.



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