Caring for Cancer Takes a Hidden Toll: Caregivers Report Far More Days of Mental Distress
A large analysis of federal survey data from 24 states finds that informal cancer caregivers have 89 percent higher odds ...
Tag: Health disparities
Where Survivors Live Shapes How Fast Their Health Fails, Landmark Study Finds
A St. Jude cohort study of 2,508 adult childhood cancer survivors finds that living in disadvantaged neighborhoods roughly doubles the ...
Digital Outreach Reaches Thousands for Lung Cancer Screening, but Gaps Persist
A secondary analysis of a randomized trial found that automated digital outreach identified thousands of adults eligible for lung cancer ...
Neighborhood Deprivation Linked to Worse Melanoma Survival in Thin Tumor Study
A Johns Hopkins retrospective cohort study finds that area-level socioeconomic deprivation is associated with melanoma-specific mortality even among high-risk patients ...
Cardiology Guidelines Almost Never Mention LGBTQIA+ Patients, Analysis of 313 Documents Finds
A systematic review of 313 cardiology clinical guidelines finds that only 1.9 percent mention LGBTQIA+ patients, despite evidence of elevated ...
After Brain Injury, Older Adults Who Need Rehab Most Often Miss Out
A study of more than 23,000 Medicare beneficiaries finds that clinical need often fails to predict who receives occupational and ...
HIV Treatment Starts Faster in Chongqing, But Gaps Persist, Five-Year Study Finds
A five-year study of more than 34,000 newly diagnosed HIV patients in Chongqing, China, shows rapid antiretroviral therapy initiation improved ...
Hospice Care Gap: Racial Disparities Persist Even When Care Is Nearby
A national study of Medicare beneficiaries with poor-prognosis cancer finds that Black, Hispanic, and Asian patients are less likely to ...
AI Struggles to Spot Psoriasis in Darker Skin, Study Finds
A new study finds that AI systems and large language models achieve at best 25 percent accuracy in diagnosing psoriasis ...
HPV Vaccination Gaps in New York City Track Closely with Where People Were Born
A community-based study of 1,278 New York City adults finds that foreign-born residents across several racial and ethnic groups have ...
Cancer Survivors Lead the Way in Genetic Testing, but Rural Gaps Persist, National Survey Finds
A nationally representative study of more than 27,000 U.S. adults finds that a personal cancer history strongly increases engagement with ...
Young Age and Lower Income Tied to Delays in Breast Cancer Care, Study Finds
A study of more than 1,000 young breast cancer patients finds that lower income and younger age are linked to ...
Mailing Cancer Screening Kits Is Not Enough: The People Who Return Them Cut Their Colorectal Cancer Risk
A nationwide cohort study of over 2.5 million US adults found that returning mailed multitarget stool DNA screening kits was ...
Digital Nudges That Work: New Review Maps How Electronic Signposting Can Boost Cancer Prevention
A realist review of thirty studies identifies the patient-side and provider-side conditions that determine whether digital messages delivered through electronic ...
People With Disabilities Face Emergency Cancer Diagnoses and Poorer Survival in Italy
A population-based study of digestive system cancers in Northern Italy finds that people with disabilities are far more likely to ...
When Cancer Survivors Can’t Afford Therapy, Alcohol Fills the Gap, Study Finds
A study of nearly 19,000 US cancer survivors finds that those unable to afford needed mental health counseling are significantly ...
Half of Insulin Users in US Safety-Net Clinics Have Dangerous Blood Sugar, Study Finds
A cross-sectional study of 16,267 insulin-requiring adults across 40 federally qualified health centers in 17 states found that over half ...
Money, Not Medicine: Economic Instability Keeps Female Cancer Survivors From the Care They Need
A decade of Maryland survey data shows that unemployment, low income, and renting each sharply reduce the odds that female ...
Doctors Rethink How Autistic Patients Weigh Life-or-Death Cancer Choices
A new case report in the Journal of General Internal Medicine shows how clinicians can support autistic and neurodivergent patients ...
Ozempic’s Ripple Effect: What Patients Know, and How One Prescription Can Reshape a Household
A survey of diverse patients in a Philadelphia health system found that most understand the main uses and side effects ...
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