Multiple factors contribute to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among older, ethnic minorities
Older adults from minority ethnic backgrounds are at increased risk of contracting and dying from COVID-19, yet vaccine hesitancy is ...
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Changes in disparities in access to care, health after Medicare eligibility
What The Study Did: The association between Medicare eligibility at age 65 and changes in racial and ethnic disparities in ...
Experiences, perpetration of identity-based bullying among adolescents
What The Study Did: Using survey responses from students in some Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, high schools, researchers investigated how experiences of ...
Prostate cancer treatment among black, white patients during pandemic
What The Study Did: This study included 647 patients with untreated nonmetastatic prostate cancer (269 patients during the pandemic and ...
Bidirectional impact of cardiovascular disease, cancer in Blacks focus of new AHA center
Credit: Kim Ratliff, Augusta University Cardiovascular disease and cancer, the nation's top two killers, share common ground like obesity and ...
Precision treatment for severe asthma targets a specific mutation
Drug blocks a cell receptor that is mutated disproportionately in people of color Under a $10 million grant, a randomized, ...
COVID-19 shutdowns reveal racial disparities in exposure to air pollution
Disenfranchised, minority neighborhoods still exposed to disproportionately high levels of health harming nitrogen dioxideCredit: GW WASHINGTON (July 20, 2021)--A new ...
Take your best shot: Which SARS-CoV-2 vaccine should I get, if any?
University of Cincinnati physician-researcher uses computerized decision model to provide evidence that being vaccinated is better than notCredit: Colleen Kelley/University ...
COVID-19-related immigration concerns among Latinx immigrants in US
What The Study Did: These results suggest that substantial proportions of Latinx immigrants have immigration concerns about engaging in COVID-19-related ...
More bullying of LGBTQ+ students in politically conservative districts
PULLMAN, Wash. --Students who identify as LGBTQ+ in Washington state school districts with conservative voting records reported experiencing more bullying ...
Discrimination and safety concerns barriers to accessing healthy food for food-insecure young adults
New study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics indicates interventions of specific relevance to COVID-19, including ...
From birth control to mammograms, many women missed out on preventive care for all of 2020
Study shows even after in-person care restarted, women were 20% to 30% less likely to get such services than in ...
Study: Incarcerated people placed in solitary confinement differ significantly from others in prison population
Concern has grown about prison systems' use of extended solitary confinement as a way to manage violent and disruptive incarcerated ...
Sociodemographic characteristics, inequities associated with access to in-person, remote elementary schooling during pandemic in New York State
What The Study Did: Among the few New York state public school districts providing full-time in-person elementary school instruction during ...
UCLA research finds the US lags 79 other nations in preventing child immigration detention
Credit: Minor Immigration Detention Database 2018 The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified calls to end the detention of migrant children, as ...
Language isolation affects health of Mexican Americans
New study finds health ramifications for Hispanic older adults New research from the University of Georgia finds that older Mexican ...
US-wide, non-white neighborhoods are hotter than white ones
Wealthier, whiter urban and small-town residents benefit more from cooling infrastructure and treesCredit: Suzanne Benz WASHINGTON--In cities and towns across ...
Poor and minority communities suffer more from extreme heat in US cities
Excess urban heat is common within cities, but not all communities burden the consequences equally, according to new UC San ...
Officers’ tone of voice reflects racial disparities in policing
Police speak to Black male drivers with less warmth, respect, perpetuating cycle of mistrust, study finds The Black Lives Matter ...
New study: Lack of consideration of sex and gender in COVID-19 clinical studies
Although Covid-19 affects men and women differently, the large majority of current clinical studies of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 makes no ...
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A dinosaur trove in Italy rewrites the history, geography, and evolution of the ancient Mediterranean area
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How to fill a heart
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Lehigh University engineers to adapt human tissue engineering techniques to ‘grow’ meat in the lab
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City of Hope scientists discover pathway that allows cancer to bypass oncology treatments