Health Diversity News

• Intentional Deaths Continue to Rise Among US Children The number of killings is climbing for US youth, particularly Black adolescents, after a period of decline, a new study found.
  Medscape Medical News, December 20, 2022
• Pfizer Defeats Race-Bias Lawsuit Over Minority Fellowship Program A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging a fellowship program established by Pfizer to improve diversity within its higher ranks discriminates against White and Asian-American applicants.
  Reuters Health Information, December 17, 2022
• Which Hospital Factors Are Linked With Timely Fracture Care? Structural biases within health systems may account for delays, regardless of individual patient race, according to new data.
  Medscape Medical News, December 16, 2022
• Black Women Have Lost Nearly 750,000 Years of Life to Overdoses Women 25-34 years of age had the greatest decrease in life expectancy, a new study found.
  Medscape Medical News, December 16, 2022
• Researchers Probe 'Systematic Error' in Gun Injury Data Inaccurate coding in hospitals could be distorting our understanding of gun violence in the United States.
  Medscape Medical News, December 16, 2022
• IDF 2022 Spotlight on 'Alarming' Diabetes Rates in Indigenous Populations A new report added to the IDF 2021 Diabetes Atlas details the 'incredibly' high prevalence of type 2 diabetes among indigenous people worldwide.
  Medscape Medical News, December 15, 2022
• National Data Show HIV Services Resilient in COVID-19 Pandemic HIV testing and treatment dropped early in the pandemic but then rebounded, the CDC reports, but race and ethnicity data gaps remain.
  Medscape Medical News, December 13, 2022
• SABCS 2022 Marker May Explain Poor Outcomes in Black Breast Cancer Patients A study of tumor microenvironments suggests that breast tumors in Black women may have a stronger prometastatic response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy than tumors in White women.
  MDedge News, December 12, 2022
• ASH 2022 High Price for Gene Therapy ― But Cost-Effective in Sickle Cell Investigators say they are the first to apply distributional cost-effective analysis to evaluate cost-effectiveness of a gene therapy for sickle cell disease.
  Medscape Medical News, December 12, 2022
• ASH 2022 For Minorities With PE: Less Advanced Treatment, More Mortality Non-White patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) were less likely to get advanced therapies, and Hispanics and Asians/Pacific Islanders, had higher death rates than Whites, new data show.
  MDedge News, December 10, 2022
• Racial Disparities in Maternal Child Health: Money Isn't Everything New research looking at California births found that higher household income was linked to lower rates of infant mortality, but not in communities of color.
  Medscape Medical News, December 09, 2022
• Study Eyes Sunscreens Marketed to People With Skin of Color A higher average cost of these products compared with the cost of popular sunscreens was among the findings of the study.
  MDedge News, December 09, 2022
• Is Medicare Advantage Losing Its Edge in Acute MI Care? A new national analysis found the program has lost an early survival benefit over the last decade but still offers some advantages in other quality measures.
  Medscape Medical News, December 08, 2022
• SABCS 2022 Worse Breast Cancer Outcomes for Black Women Tempered by BMI New data show that Black women with node positive HR+/HER2- breast cancer have worse outcomes than their white counterparts, although the difference was no longer significant after adjustment for BMI.
  Medscape Medical News, December 08, 2022
• US News & World Report Releases Best Hospitals for Maternity Care US News & World Report ranked fewer than 300 hospitals as high performing, with updates and additions to the aspects of care reviewed.
  Medscape Medical News, December 06, 2022
• Off-Label Use of Dementia Meds Tied to Lower Mortality in DLB Off-label use of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and memantine is associated with better survival following hospitalization for patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).
  Medscape Medical News, December 06, 2022
• Physicians React: On Access to Quality, Affordable Healthcare Doctors discuss how they frame the issue of healthcare access in the US, whether they view this as a right or privilege, and improvements they would recommend.
  Medscape Medical News, December 05, 2022
• Race-Free eGFR Equation for Kidney Function Adopted Quickly in US A race-free equation for estimating glomerular filtration rate came out in September 2021. Nearly a third of US labs were using it 6 months later, and further adoption continues at a brisk clip.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2022
• Moderna Exec Says COVID Trials Improved Diversity Recruiting Moderna's top scientist said on Tuesday that the vaccine maker has learned how to better recruit from diverse populations for its clinical trials from running its COVID-19 vaccine studies.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2022
• European Women's Work-Life Balance Worsened Since COVID Outbreak: Study European women's work-life balance has worsened since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, a European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) report shows.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2022