Georgia Cancer Center receives $6 million grant to improve access to clinical trials
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 12, 2019) - The Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University ...
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US emergency medical services underrepresented of women and minorities
More must be done to tackle issue, with less than a quarter of newly certified paramedics being female Women and ...
Suicidal thoughts can be reduced among Indigenous people; this new study finds the factors
Food insecurity and lack of a high school degree were impediments to recovery from suicidal ideation The higher prevalence of ...
The role of racial discrimination in alcohol abuse
UH researcher exploring impact on LatinxsCredit: University of Houston University of Houston associate professor of psychology Andres Viana has received ...
Neighborhood environment and health
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (July 17, 2019) - It is well understood that urban black males are at a disproportionately ...
New study works with historically disenfranchised communities to combat sudden oak death
Credit: Richard C. Cobb, Noam Ross, Katherine J. Hayden, Catherine A. Eyre, Richard S. Dodd, Susan J. Frankel, Matteo Garbelotto, ...
Keck School of Medicine promotes patient diversity in cardiac surgery clinical trials
$4.5 million National Institutes of Health grant supports efforts to evaluate new surgical approaches to treat cardiovascular disease and recruit ...
Improving care quality for hospitalized socially at-risk patients
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (July 12, 2019) - Nurses play a pivotal role in caring for hospitalized patients with social ...
UTSA researcher studies how individuals use technology to engage with their cultures
UTSA researcher says people are redefining who they are through technology As the nation continues to get more diverse, it's ...
Good medicine depends on diversity
Columbia University leads a national study to facilitate greater inclusion of ethnic minorities in genetic studiesCredit: Photo courtesy of National ...
LGBTQ Asian-Americans seen as more ‘American’
The fastest-growing racial group in the United States -- Asian Americans -- is also one that is consistently perceived as ...
More women in US receive 3D mammography but disparities remain
New Haven, Conn. -- Use of 3-D mammography, an advanced form of breast cancer screening, has risen rapidly in recent ...
Study ties poor sleep to reduced memory performance in older adults
Credit: Georgia Tech A new study has found that variability in night-to-night sleep time and reduced sleep quality adversely affect ...
State initiative to address disparities in mother’s milk for very low birth weight infants
Boston - Researchers at Boston Medical Center initiated a statewide quality improvement imitative to increase mothers' ability to produce and ...