Tag: health equity

A PLOS Medicine editorial argues that smartwatch data could build a globally representative cardiovascular research database, but only if ethical, ...

JMIR Cancer Opens Call for Breast Cancer Research to Mark Awareness Month

JMIR Cancer has launched a dedicated breast cancer theme collection this October, inviting research on digital health, teleoncology, artificial intelligence, ...

Māori-Led Internship Programme Aims to Reshape Heart Health Workforce in New Zealand

A Māori-designed paid internship programme called Kura Raumati is building a culturally grounded Indigenous heart health workforce to tackle New ...

Screening for Social Needs in Hospitals: Why Asking Is Not the Same as Helping

A new Journal of General Internal Medicine editorial argues that hospital screening for health-related social needs has outpaced the systems ...

Inside the Ambitious Texas Study Scanning Every Organ to Decode How We Age

A new 600-person Texas cohort study is combining whole-body MRI, vascular testing, cognitive and physical assessments, and wearable monitoring to ...

The Language Tricks That Let Health Inequity Off the Hook

A satirical PLOS Global Public Health opinion piece dissects the evasive language, from 'vulnerable populations' to calls for political will, ...

Contraception Within Reach? Burkina Faso’s Family Planning Gap Mapped Facility by Facility

A new geospatial analysis of 2,757 health facilities and nearly 7,000 women in Burkina Faso finds that while contraceptive services ...

Cancer Immunotherapy Side Effects Differ Sharply Across Racial Groups, Massive Data Analysis Reveals

An analysis of nearly half a million clinical trials and real-world data from over 91,000 patients reveals that immune-related side ...

Telemedicine Wins Trust in Uganda, But Connectivity and Policy Gaps Hold It Back

A qualitative study of policymakers, providers, and patients in Kampala finds telemedicine widely accepted for its convenience and privacy, but ...

Children With Disabilities Face More Than Five Times Higher Risk of Dying, Global Analysis Finds

A landmark meta-analysis of 29 studies covering over 35 million children finds that young people with disabilities face 5.31 times ...

Women Veterans Split Emergency Care Between VA Hospitals and Community ERs, National Study Finds

A national study of 1.6 million Veterans shows women Veterans receive about 60 percent of their emergency care in VA ...

Where a Child Lives Shapes Whether They Get a Sleep Test Before Tonsil Surgery

A new commentary in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine highlights wide geographic and racial and ethnic disparities in preoperative ...

Maternal RSV vaccine shields babies but global uptake lags far behind

A systematic review of more than four million pregnancies finds maternal RSV vaccination cuts severe infant disease by 74 per ...

Two Years of Testing Reveal Who Carried COVID-19 in Southeastern Nigeria

A two-year qRT-PCR surveillance study in Ebonyi State found that nearly a third of 42,918 suspected cases were COVID-19 positive, ...

Community Engagement and Implementation Science Could Fix Stroke Trials

A new framework published in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology proposes integrating community engagement and implementation science across the ...

Why Cancer Patients Miss Out on Clinical Trials: The Referral Gap Explained

Interviews with community and academic oncology clinicians in Florida reveal that referrals to academic cancer centers for clinical trial consideration ...

Mothers Caring for Children with Developmental Disabilities Skip Their Own Health Check-Ups, Korean Study Finds

A large Korean study combining a nationwide survey with National Health Insurance Service records shows that mothers caring for children ...

NCCN Summit Puts Cancer Prevention and Screening at the Heart of Health Policy