Tag: Health disparities

An analysis of US death certificates from 1999 to 2020 found 22,214 deaths involving both pulmonary embolism and fracture, with ...

Refugee Mortality Converges with Host Population in Rural South Africa

A 25-year study in rural South Africa shows that mortality rates among Mozambican refugees have converged with those of the ...

Cancer Treatment Varies Sharply by Region Among American Indian and Alaska Native Patients

A SEER-based study of more than 18,000 American Indian and Alaska Native cancer patients found large regional differences in timely ...

Alzheimer’s Biomarkers Run Lower in African American Participants, Meta-Analysis Finds

A meta-analysis of eighteen studies found that African American participants had significantly lower tau and neurodegeneration biomarker levels in cerebrospinal ...

Osteoporosis care gaps in Iranian older adults: most cases undiagnosed and untreated

November 6, 2026

A cross-sectional analysis of 4145 older adults in the Bushehr Elderly Health Program found that 73.06% of participants with osteoporosis ...

County Incarceration Linked to Elevated Cancer Mortality-to-Incidence Ratios

November 5, 2026

A cross-sectional ecological study using county-level data from 2017 to 2023 found that higher incarceration quartiles were associated with lower ...

Pulse oximeters may undercount sleep apnea severity in Black patients

November 4, 2026

A two-cohort study found oxygen-based sleep apnea scoring identified about 20 percent fewer airflow-defined breathing events in Black than white ...

Community Health Worker Training Boosted Patient Portal Use Among People With HIV in Pilot Study

A pilot study found that a one-time, 30-minute community health worker training session significantly increased how people with HIV used ...

Patients describe how communication failures shaped their sepsis risk during childbirth

A qualitative study of 60 New York patients, mostly Black and Hispanic or Latina, identifies five communication themes in obstetric ...

Income Tied to Cervical Cancer Survival in SEER Causal Analysis

A SEER analysis of 3,810 cervical cancer patients using marginal structural models and TMLE links low neighborhood income to higher ...

Socioeconomic Status Fails to Predict Osteoporosis Once Sex Is Accounted For

A longitudinal analysis of two ageing cohorts found that the crude link between low socioeconomic status and incident osteoporosis in ...

Chinese Older Adults Face Years of Unmet Long-Term Care Needs

A study of 42,480 Chinese adults estimates that people aged 60 will spend an average of 2.02 years with unmet ...

LGBTQ+ young people face a structural ‘precondition tax’ in healthcare, review finds

A qualitative evidence synthesis of 30 studies finds that healthcare failures for LGBTQ+ young people are structural, patterned and preventable.

Somali women in Minnesota face layered barriers to cervical cancer screening

A community-engaged mixed methods study in southeast Minnesota finds that fear, mistrust and limited health literacy deter Somali women from ...

One in Three Non-Using Women in South-West Nigeria Intends to Use Contraception

An analysis of the 2024 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey finds that 32.4% of non-using women in South-West Nigeria intend ...

One in Three Young Adults Ask AI Chatbots About Substance Use, Rutgers Survey Finds

A Rutgers survey of nearly 1,000 young adults found that more than 32% use ChatGPT and similar chatbots for substance-use ...

Fewer than half of incidental lung nodules get recommended follow-up in New York study

A retrospective study of 1,266 patients at two New York hospitals found only 41.3 percent of incidental lung nodules received ...

Poverty and Low Education Linked to Lower Dental Care Use Among Older Americans