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With $11.8 million award, new center is a 'game changer' for community healthCredit: University of Houston Slated to have a bold research agenda, a new national research center focused on removing health disparities in Houston's…

Instincts developed to protect us from illnesses can generalize into avoidance of healthy individuals who simply look, speak or live differently. When viruses, parasites and other pathogens spread, humans and other animals tend to hunker…

Leadership positions continue to elude qualified directors who are female and/or racial minoritiesCredit: University of Delaware/ Julie Morin Recent protests across the United States and the world have put a magnifying glass on…

Latest Bright Line Watch analysis finds erosion 'across the board' on measures of democratic principles and how well the US is abiding by themCredit: Bright Line Watch The health of democracy in the United States has reached its lowest…

What The Article Says: This Viewpoint discusses the disproportionate burdens related to COVID-19 experienced by minority populations as well as strategies to limit disparities in health care, access and outcomes. Authors: Regan W.…

Why are key nutrients missing from their food environment?Credit: Matongo Tamie The diets of hunter-gatherers are changing at a fast pace, as in the contemporary world, they are increasingly being deprived of their access to land and…

Syracuse, N.Y. - A recent study by researchers from Syracuse University shows that the average daily increase in rural COVID-19 mortality rates has been significantly higher in counties with the largest percentages of Black and Hispanic…

NEW YORK, NY (September 8, 2020) - Leading cancer scientists working with the New York Genome Center (NYGC) announced today that grants are being awarded to fund six projects that address the role of ethnicity in several major cancer…

Credit: Charlie Ehlert Racial disparities among essential workers could be a key reason that Black Americans are more likely than whites to contract and die of COVID-19, according to researchers at the University of Utah. They…

New research provides insights on the potential causes of racial disparities in deaths following prostate cancer surgery. The findings are published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society (ACS).…

The social psychologist Dr Hans Alves from the Social Cognition Center Cologne (SOCCO) at the University of Cologne has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). Alves will receive a total of approximately 1.4…

Researchers describe ways to achieve optimal patient advocacy for kidney recipients and donors during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond (LOS ANGELES) - In a newly published paper, the authors first paint the vision of what optimal patient…

A new paper in The Economic Journal finds that bus drivers are more likely to let white riders ride for free and less likely to let Black riders ride without paying the fee. Police officers must issue tickets to drivers exceeding the…

Where you live can increase your risk for experiencing delirium after surgery. So said a study that showed older adults who live in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods are two times more likely to experience delirium after surgery than…

Education researchers from China give their views on what the current crisis could do to international higher educationCredit: East China Normal University (ECNU) Review of Education The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply affected our…

Humane communities would endorse animal-friendly affordable housing, living wages, and recognize the importance of human-animal bondsCredit: Stanford University Press Overpolicing and constant surveillance of low-income urban…

Credit: Rebecca Gourley/University of Washington A new University of Washington study of thousands of local rental ads finds a pattern of "racialized language" that can perpetuate neighborhood segregation, using specific terms to…

Voters also surveyed on school reopening, absentee ballots amid COVID-19 pandemic, more LOWELL, Mass. - Incumbent Edward Markey has opened up a double-digit lead over challenger U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III one week before the Democratic…

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 26, 2020--Across the U.S., COVID-19 and HIV diagnoses are lowest in primarily white counties. They follow the same pattern, with diagnoses decreasing as the population…

New research from Boston Medical Center highlights the benefits of using health technology to engage African American and Black women earlier in preconception care in an effort to close the gap on racial disparities in birth outcomes and…