A team of scientists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere has discovered that a single alteration in the genetic code of about a fourth of African-Americans helps protect them from coronary artery disease, the leading cause of death in Americans of all races.
Death by homicide, the victim is probably black. By cirrhosis, the decedent is likely Native American. These stereotypes have small but clear effects on the racial classifications used to calculate official vital statistics, according to a new study by sociologists at two universities.
U-M Health System researchers have identified various factors – from education and income levels to gender and religion – that may predict whether Arab Americans support organ donation after death.
Black obese patients receive less weight-related counseling than white obese patients.
February is a time for medical check-ups for African Americans.
“Men’s concepts of what it means to be a ‘real’ man are generally shaped by traditional masculine role norms, which encourage men to be extremely self-reliant and these norms often affect their health behavior,” said Wizdom Powell Hammond, Ph.D., assistant professor of health behavior and health education at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and a member of UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. “We’ve seen in other studies that men with strong commitment to traditional masculine role norms delay health care because they don’t want to seem weak.
We all know how to spot a macho guy – right? He’s a man’s man with a certain swagger and a way with the ladies. Well, social scientists have a different opinion – one that perpetuates stereotypes about black, Hispanic and certain homosexual men.
With the NFL head coaching carousel underway, attention turns again to the Rooney Rule, but research from an Iowa economist shows the rule is not the best way to expand the league's pools of minority head coaches.
Mistreatment of older Chinese adults in the U.S. is perceived to be a pervasive, but underreported, problem, according to a study that used community focus groups composed of elders to explore the issue.
For many with MS, the disease wreaks havoc with emotional well-being, and minorities might especially be at risk for developing depressive symptoms.
Michael Honey, a history professor at University of Washington Tacoma, collected, edited and wrote introductions for 16 of King's speeches on economic justice.
Black people with early stage liver cancer were more likely than white patients to die from their disease, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
With a rapidly expanding population of elders, the number of dementia caregivers in Florida is increasing exponentially. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, nearly 10 million caregivers provide unpaid care to people with Alzheimer’s disease. Finding the best way to support caregivers, especially with fewer state resources available, is one focus of ongoing research at Mayo Clinic in Florida.
African American patients and those with lower socioeconomic status have more advanced disease and greater disability when they seek treatment from Parkinson’s specialists, according to a University of Maryland study.
IUPUI Law Professor Carlton Waterhouse travels to South Africa to present his research on reparations work in post-apartheid South Africa, and investigate program as model for reparation efforts in U.S.
Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize honors individuals under 40 who are effecting positive social change.
A new survey of court cases against battered women living abroad shows that when the women left their abusive partners and returned with their children to the United States, half of the time, U.S. courts sent the children back, usually to their fathers. The survey, co-authored by a University of Washington researcher, also shows that almost a third of these estranged husbands filed criminal kidnapping charges against their wives.
A new study by a University of Kansas sociologist shows that U.S. employers fail to pay Asian American men as much as similarly qualified white men.
Black, Asian, and Native American children are more likely than white and Hispanic children to die after being treated for neuroblastoma, according to new research on the pediatric cancer. The study is the largest ever to look at racial disparities in risk and survival for the most common solid cancer found in young children.
African-Americans are less likely than whites to be screened for colorectal cancer, and the disparity almost certainly contributes to higher mortality. A new review of studies identifies effective strategies for improving the situation, but suggests that work remains to be done.
As millions of Americans enjoy the annual celebration of baseball known as the World Series, most have no idea "the best baseball player you've never heard of" was the woman who replaced Hank Aaron in the Negro Leagues.
A new study found that racial and ethnic disparities among children with frequent ear infections can significantly influence access to health care resources.
When some students at Ithaca College heard about a recent string of suicides by young people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, they decided to take action.
Disparities in breast cancer mortality continued to be unacceptably high in Chicago and many hospitals in Chicago are not meeting accepted quality standards according to new data.
A new University of Virginia study is examining what factors cause some minorities to be underrepresented in the ranks of biomedical researchers – a situation that could have a negative impact on health care.
African Americans in Georgia: A Reflection of Politics and Policy in the New South offers a comprehensive study of politics and public policy issues with implications for African Americans in Georgia.
1) Time to diagnosis twice as long for insured minorities vs. insured white women; 2) Diagnostic delay twice as long for uninsured vs. insured black women.
1) Despite insurance and incomes, racial disparities in treatment delay exist; 2) Disparities have not improved; may have worsened over time.
1) Biological tumor differences seen in Hispanics and Asians; 2) Surgery led to higher survival rates; underwent by fewer black patients; 3) Bronchoalveolar lung cancer had a better prognosis.
1) Women with this cancer subtype have more than twice the risk of death; 2) Poor prognosis linked to age at diagnosis and regional/distant disease.
1) Study conducted among patients with uterine cancer; 2) African-Americans had higher death rates, even with insurance; 3) Mortality higher among patients with public vs. private insurance.
As part of the Third AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, Olveen Carrasquillo, M.D., M.P.H., chief of the division of general medicine at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine in Florida, will host a press conference on Friday, Oct. 1, at 6:00 p.m. in the Cowrie 2 Room of the Loews Hotel in Miami.
1) As little as two hours a week of vigorous exercise reduces risk; 2) Benefits are seen with regular walking as well.
1) Fifty-six percent of Puerto Ricans have heard about direct-to-consumer genetic testing; 2) Only 4.3 percent of Puerto Ricans have used a genetic test; 3) Awareness of genetic testing in Puerto Rico is higher, but use is lower, compared with the United States.
1) Increase seen in both premenopausal and postmenopausal women; 2) Women who smoked between puberty and first childbirth had an increased risk.
1) Large study shows cancer patients have significant memory problems; 2) Impairment may be linked to biology, treatments and biological predisposition; 3) Strategies to diagnose and treat memory impairments are needed.
1) Association between low socioeconomic status and colorectal cancer is independent of other risk factors; 2) Public health programs and practitioners should target these areas.
1) Study conducted among Puerto Ricans; 2) DNA repair capacity assessment may predict skin cancer risk even at an early age; 3) Non-melanoma skin cancer risk could be lowered by increasing DNA repair capacity.
1) A multidimensional holistic approach reduced fatigue in blacks and whites; 2) Persistent fatigue may last for years after breast cancer treatment.
1) Lower levels may be linked to aggressive breast cancer; 2) Findings suggest possible prevention strategy; 3) Vitamin D levels should be monitored closely.
The American Association for Cancer Research will host its Third Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities at the Loews Hotel in Miami from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3, 2010.
While both black patients and white patients appear to benefit from end of life discussions with their physician, black patients are less likely to experience end-of-life care that accurately reflects their preferences, according to a report in the September 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
African-American victims of motorcycle crashes were 1.5 times more likely to die from their injuries than similarly injured whites, even though many more of the African-American victims were wearing helmets at the time of injury, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers.
African Americans face kidney disease–related disparities, according to two upcoming studies in CJASN. The title of the first summary is, "Among HIV-Infected Kidney Disease Patients, African Americans are More Likely to Develop Kidney Failure and Die Prematurely". The title of the second summary is, "African American or Older Kidney Transplant Candidates Have Slimmer Chances of Receiving Living Donor Organs".
UK College of Arts and Science's "South Africa & Kentucky: Different Lands, Common Ground," initiative begins this fall.
South Asians living in the United States are at much higher risk for type 2 diabetes than are whites and immigrants from other Asian countries, a new small study reveals.
UCLA researchers found that adolescents from Latin American and Asian backgrounds experienced more discrimination than their peers from European backgrounds and that the discrimination came not only from other adolescents but from adults as well. Discrimination impacted their grade-point averages and their health, and was associated with depression, distress and lower levels of self-esteem.
A new study shows that white men and boys are living longer with muscular dystrophy due to technological advances in recent years, but that the lives of African-American men and boys with muscular dystrophy have not been extended at the same rate. The research will be published in the September 14, 2010, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Uninsured minority pedestrians hit by cars are at a significantly higher risk of death than their insured white counterparts, even if the injuries sustained are similar, new research from Johns Hopkins suggests.
Among disadvantaged people in the United States, the most needy and least helped are probably African-American men, who suffer in a variety of ways, including being stereotyped as reckless and having little regard for their children. They are also disadvantaged because changes in the economy have depleted the number of well-paying, manual labor jobs.
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