Health Diversity News

• Hospital Policies Should Address Patient Bias Toward Health Care Workers Clear institutional policies are needed to address demeaning behavior or inappropriate language from patients because of clinicians' social identity (such as race, ethnicity, or gender).
  Reuters Health Information, July 14, 2020
• Prior Beta Blockers Predict Extra HF Burden in Women With ACS Beta blocker use may be an 'acute precipitant of heart failure' in women, but not men, who present with ACS as their first clinical sign of coronary disease, researchers propose.
  Medscape Medical News, July 15, 2020
• 'This Is a Pandemic of Inequality' 'Health care workers, especially physicians, like to think that we give everyone equal treatment,' says emergency physician Uché Blackstock. 'We don't -- and we have the data that shows that.'
  Medscape Medical News, July 15, 2020
• Work-Life Balance Dwarfs Pay in Female Doctors' Top Concerns Women report struggling to 'be present' at home and missing out on life with their spouse. Although almost two thirds said balance was their top concern, 43% put pay issues at the top.
  Medscape Medical News, July 15, 2020
• People of Color Die From COVID-19 at Younger Age In the US, White people die at an older age from COVID-19 than people of color, suggests an analysis from the CDC that reviewed standardized case-based surveillance reports from Feb. 12 to May 18.
  Medscape Medical News, July 13, 2020
• Post-PCI Mortality Higher in Blacks vs Whites, Comorbidities Aside Patients who weren't White had more comorbidities than Whites, but that didn't entirely explain why Blacks fared worse for mortality and MI risk than Whites in a pooled analysis of PCI trials.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2020
• As a Black Psychiatrist, She Is 'Exhausted' and 'Furious' When Nzinga Harrison talks about her experiences as a Black woman in medicine to White people, they're shocked. Black people, she says, tell her 'that sounds about right.'
  Medscape Medical News, July 09, 2020
• Interventions Could Reduce Racial Disparity in Neonatal Kernicterus Various interventions could reduce the largely overlooked high kernicterus rate among Black infants, a new review suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, July 07, 2020
• First Black Woman Elected Class President at Harvard Med LaShyra Nolen has long spoken against systemic racism. Now, as the first Black woman elected president of her class at Harvard Medical School, Nolen sees an opportunity to help bring real change.
  Medscape Medical News, July 07, 2020
• Sexist Description in Textbook Shows Bias in Medicine, Docs Say 'We see examples of this everywhere, not just in medical literature but in our culture,' one surgeon said.
  Medscape Medical News, July 01, 2020
• Pioneering Molecular Biologist Dies of COVID-19 at 89 In addition to receiving a patent in molecular biology, Evelyn Carmon Nicol made discoveries concerning toxoplasmosis, herpes zoster, and HIV during her 4-decade career.
  Medscape Medical News, July 01, 2020
• Ignored by Doctors, Transgender People Turn to DIY Treatments Many trans people resort to black market hormones and surgeries when they can't find gender-affirming healthcare.
  Undark, June 29, 2020
• Nonforensic Autopsies More Common in Blacks Than Whites Black decedents were significantly more likely to undergo nonmandatory autopsies compared with white decedents, and such autopsies have declined overall, researchers found.
  Medscape Medical News, June 29, 2020
• ESC-HF 2020Women Thrive on Baroreflex Activation for Heart Failure The results of the BeAT-HF trial led to marketing approval of the BaroStim Neo system for improvement in symptoms of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) by the FDA last August.
  Medscape Medical News, June 26, 2020
• Higher Rate of Alzheimer's in Women Explained? Loss of estrogen related to menopause may explain why women are much more likely than men to develop Alzheimer disease, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, June 26, 2020
• Pregnant Women at Greater Risk for Severe COVID-19, CDC Says Infected mothers-to-be are five times more likely than their nonpregnant counterparts to be hospitalized and almost twice as likely to require mechanical ventilation, the CDC reports.
  Medscape Medical News, June 25, 2020
• Do We See Black Patients Differently? California state senator Richard Pan, MD, calls on colleagues to address long-standing medical racism. Even well-meaning physicians, he says, can contribute to ongoing problems in Black healthcare.
  Medscape Medical News, June 25, 2020
• COVID-19: Medicare Data Show Long Hospital Stays, Disparities Half of all COVID-19 hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries last 8 days or longer, according to a new analysis by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
  Medscape Medical News, June 25, 2020
• African Americans Underrepresented in Clinical Trials of Cancer Treatments The number of black patients in US clinical trials testing new oncologic drugs falls far short of what would be expected based on prevalence of the specific cancers those medications were designed to treat, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, June 23, 2020
• AAD 2020Dermatology Care Limited for Urban-Based African Americans In urban areas of the United States with large African American populations, there are not enough dermatologists to meet the needs, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, June 24, 2020