Health Diversity News

• Factors Hampering Kidney-Disease Screening Among U.S. Blacks Fear, distrust and inconvenience are some of the factors hampering efforts to implement community-based kidney-disease screening of black Americans, researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, March 2018
• Social Media 'May Harm Well-Being of Teenage Girls' Girls who spend a lot of time on social media at age 10 are more likely to encounter declining levels of well-being during adolescence than those who do not, say researchers.
  WebMD Health News, March 2018
• Use of HIV-Prevention Drug Grows, but Lags Among Nonwhites Across the US, PrEP use is rising significantly. Blacks and Latinos, however, have been slow to embrace the medication even though HIV infection rates among them are much higher than among whites.
  Kaiser Health News, March 2018
• Gene Variants Tied to Albuterol Response in Minority Kids With Asthma A new genome-wide association study has identified variants associated with worse albuterol response in African American and Puerto Rican children with asthma.
  Reuters Health Information, March 2018
• AACR 2018Improving Diversification of Cancer Patients in Clinical Trials Underserved populations experiencing cancer health disparities are underrepresented in clinical trials (CTs). AACR is taking the lead on fixing this disparity with its '2020 by 2020' initiative.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2018
• Finland Is World's Happiest Country, U.S. Discontent Grows: U.N. Report Finland is the world's happiest country, according to an annual survey issued on Wednesday that found Americans were getting less happy even as their country became richer.
  Reuters Health Information, March 2018
• Higher Tooth Loss Risk for Mothers With More Kids Mothers with a larger family have a higher risk for tooth loss, according to a large, mainly European study.
  WebMD Health News, March 2018
• Barbershop-Based Healthcare Cuts Hypertension in Blacks An outreach program leveraging the community barbershop made impressive inroads combatting hypertension in black men, who have the highest hypertension-related death rate in the United States.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2018
• More Research Needed on Gender Dysphoria Treatments in Youth Evidence that hormonal treatments for transgender adolescents can achieve desired physical effects is “low,” and studies regarding their psychosocial impact are lacking, researchers in Australia say.
  Reuters Health Information, March 2018
• Gender Gap in Senior Research Authorships 'Large and Stable' Women have been making gains in being named first author on research studies, yet decades later, the expected corresponding increase in female senior authors is nowhere to be seen.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2018
• CROI'Urgent Action' Needed to Prevent HIV in Black Americans New estimates show that half a million black Americans qualify for the HIV prevention pill, but only 1% of those have been prescribed PrEP.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2018
• Young Minorities With Type 1 Diabetes Have Worse Outcome Indicators Young ethnic minority patients with type 1 diabetes have worse prognostic markers than white patients, potentially explaining their worse longer-term outcomes, say US scientists.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2018
• MI Risk Higher in Apple-Shaped Women Than Men Evidence from a large UK study suggests waist-to-hip ratio may be a more comprehensive indicator of MI risk associated with adiposity, especially in women but also in men.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2018
• CROI'Chipping Away' at Better HIV Outcomes at CROI 2018 Major new studies are ongoing, but the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) will provide actionable data on complications, prevention, and disparities in care.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2018
• Oncologist Awarded $13 Million in Gender Discrimination Lawsuit After working at UCLA for 25 years and heading up the lymphoma program, Lauren Pinter-Brown, MD, claimed she experienced gender discrimination and then retaliation for complaining about it.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2018
• Women Have Particular Stroke Risk Factors, Outcomes Women face different risk factors for stroke and experience worse outcomes after stroke, compared with men, according to four related articles in a focused update online February 8 in the journal Stroke.
  Reuters Health Information, February 2018
• Heavy Smoking Tied to Higher Diabetes Risk for Black Adults For black people, smoking at least a pack of cigarettes a day is tied to a higher risk of developing diabetes, a U.S. study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, January 2018
• Rising Obesity in South Leads to Rapid Increases in Diabetes In this cohort of low-income southerners, around one in five blacks and whites who were morbidly obese developed type 2 diabetes within about 5 years.
  Medscape Medical News, January 2018
• Statue of Controversial Surgeon to Be Moved From Central Park Dr J. Marion Sims, dubbed 'the father of modern gynecology,' performed experimental surgery on slave women without consent and without anesthesia.
  Medscape Medical News, January 2018
• Varenicline Decreases Heavy Drinking in Male Smokers Varenicline is FDA-approved as an agent to assist with smoking cessation. A new study suggests it may be useful in reducing heavy drinking in male smokers with comorbid alcohol use disorder.
  Medscape Medical News, January 2018