Demography

A survey of 20 disadvantaged neighbourhoods across the North West (UK) has revealed the social influences on why people attend their local Accident & Emergency department. Researchers from the University of Liverpool, supported by…

TAMPA, Fla. (Jan. 16, 2018) -- The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) community has long been a medically underserved minority population in the United States. Disparities experienced by LGBTQ patients,…

Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - What do songs by artists like Jay-Z and Public Enemy have in common? They feature representations of 'cop voice,' a racialized way of speaking that police use…

New research has found a common genetic factor that confers a significant risk of atypical heart attacks in women New research published by teams from Leicester, UK and Paris, France in collaboration with international partners from the US…

A major study at the University of Copenhagen study reports that food quality is affected when people's food budgets are constrained, as per the definition of insecure or very insecure access to food used in international research. People…

A small percentage of Americans, less than 9 percent, shared links to so-called "fake news" sites on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election campaign, but this behavior was disproportionately common among people over the age of 65,…

First study to look at gender differences in trustworthiness and perceptions of benevolence in the context of hierarchical negotiations, such as wage-labor agreements, finds that women and men reach very similar negotiations outcomes in a…

It can be difficult to make a global assessment of poverty and poor economic conditions, but with satellite images, researchers are now able to give us a very good hint of the living conditions of populations in the world's poor…

A growing number of genomic studies have generated important discoveries regarding human health and behaviour, but new research from the University of Oxford suggests that scientific advancement is limited by a lack of diversity. They…

Credit: Azose and Raftery, PNAS, 2018 On today's increasingly crowded globe, human migration can strain infrastructure and resources. Accurate data on migration flows could help governments plan for and respond to immigrants. Yet these…