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ICDs Charged With Sex Discrimination: Women Get Fewer Shocks Differences in appropriate-therapy and device-related complication rates in a prospective study question (once again) whether women and men should have the same ICD-eligibility criteria.
Heartwire, February 6, 2012
Women Do Better After TAVI, Hints Small Study The first foray into possible gender differences in presentation and outcome among patients undergoing TAVI for severe aortic stenosis hints that women may fare better than men after this procedure.
Heartwire, January 30, 2012

Appendicitis Racial Disparities Mostly Unexplained
Reuters Health Information, January 19, 2012
Can Electronic Health Records Erase Racial Disparities?
Reuters Health Information, January 10, 2012
California ERs Serving Blacks Likelier to Close
Reuters Health Information, December 23, 2011
RSNA Risk for Myocardial Infarction Differs Between Men and Women
Medscape Medical News, December 2, 2011

Health Diversity Perspectives

Women, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Risk Is the effect of diabetes on cardiovascular risk greater among women than men?
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, February 3, 2012
Midlevel Dental Provider Proposals Stir Controversy New programs and proposals to license dental therapists and other midlevel dental providers are igniting debate across the country.
Medscape Dentistry & Oral Health, February 2, 2012

Urethral Discharge in a Young Man
Medscape Family Medicine, January 31, 2012
Kidney Disease in Aboriginal People: Trends and Determinants
Medscape Nephrology, January 12, 2012
Transitioning Adolescents Into Adult Healthcare
Medscape Public Health, December 14, 2011
Perinatal Depression in Minority, Low-Income Women
Medscape Nurses, September 16, 2011

Journals

Rural-Urban Trends and Patterns in Cervical Cancer
Journal of Community Health, February 6, 2012
The U.S. HIV Epidemic Suggests an Emergency
AIDS Clinical Care, February 1, 2012
HIV Risk Behaviors in Binge Drinkers and Non-binge Drinkers
Journal of Community Health, January 26, 2012
Racial Differences and CVD in Women Going Through Menopause
Menopause, February 6, 2012
Analysis of Sex-related Differences in Patients With ACS
American Heart Journal, January 30, 2012

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