Minorities

Credit: West Virginia University A West Virginia University School of Medicine researcher is developing an app to train key personnel in rural areas how to identify and report one of the lesser known elements of the opioid…

Individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD) face the burdens of chronic illness and often racial disparities, both of which may increase vulnerability to adverse social determinants of health (SDoH). For children with SCD, living in…

Study first to examine parents' vocabulary and grammar as an influence on children's acquisition of EnglishCredit: Florida Atlantic University The way a highly proficient speaker of English talks to a child is different from the way a less…

Troubling trends seen among black high school students in particular Adding to what is known about the growing crisis of suicide among American teens, a team led by researchers at the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at…

Mortality decline has slowed in recent years; Breast cancer now leading cause of cancer death for black women in six states A decades-long decline in the breast cancer death rate continues, but has begun to slow in recent years, while…

Credit: UTHealth A program developed to encourage healthy relationships and reduce dating violence was effective among early middle school students, according to results of a study published in the American Journal of Public Health by…

Credit: Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Repeated disasters and environmental changes on Louisiana's Gulf Coast are rapidly eroding the land, and along with it, an Indigenous tribe's ability to sustain its culture, health and…

A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine demonstrates progress reversals fall disproportionately among African American and American Indian infants and children Ann Arbor, September 24, 2019 - Years of progress towards…

Credit: Photo by Maricruz Kwon/UTHealth A snapshot of health conditions revealing the disparities across 38 neighborhood areas in Harris County has been published in the 2018 Health of Houston Survey by The University of Texas…

Policies to deny transplants to migrants need to be reassessed, UCSF study finds Unauthorized immigrants who receive liver transplants in the United States have comparable three-year survival rates to U.S. citizens, according to a study by…