Black individuals at higher risk for contracting COVID-19, according to new research
Credit: ATS July 08, 2020 - Results of an analysis published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society found ...
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Mobile clinics can help address health care needs of Latino farmworkers
UC Riverside study exposes disparities in health care access in rural Southern CaliforniaCredit: Center for Healthy Communities, UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, ...
Researchers study effects of COVID-19 on caregivers of people with ADRD
Credit: Northern Arizona University Sixteen million family members in the U.S. are caregivers for the more than 6 million people ...
Research news tip sheet: Story ideas from Johns Hopkins Medicine
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Eating a Late Meal May Be Harmful To Your Metabolic Health, Particularly For Early Birds Media ...
Uganda’s Ik are not unbelievably selfish and mean
Small ethnic group is cooperative and generous, contrary to 1972 book portrayalCredit: Cathryn Townsend The Ik, a small ethnic group ...
Beyond Singapore’s bicentennial
We need to do more than reminiscence historyCredit: World Scientific "This is a timely publication, which commenced as Singapore was ...
Opposition to sexual- and gender-minority rights linked to support for Christian dominance
Credit: Graphic by Michael B. Vincent CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Many Christian and political conservatives in the U.S. support legislation to ...
American Roentgen Ray Society statement on health care and racial inequities
ARRS reaffirms its century-long commitment to the impartial progression of medical imaging and its allied sciences through a true community ...
University of Toronto team awarded CIHR grant to study impact of cannabis use on Indigenous oral health
Clinical research and Indigenous knowledge models will help team gather first evidence of effects of cannabis on Indigenous peoples of ...
Chapman University national study highlights wide-ranging effects of COVID-19 pandemic
The survey examined the experiences of 4,149 adults living in the United States and how the crisis is impacting their ...
Discrimination may erase ‘birthweight advantage’ of black US immigrants in one generation
Credit: Egan Jimenez, Princeton University Black women have the highest prevalence of low birthweight babies compared to other racial and ...
New evidence on bed bug burden in urban neighborhoods
UMass Amherst researcher and team see more risk of bed bugs in poorer, crowded urban areasCredit: Charles Kremenak AMHERST, Mass. ...
Tip of the iceberg: Existing racial inequalities in death from COVID-19 will soar
Credit: Florida Atlantic University As is the case with most fatal diseases, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is already taking a disproportionate ...
Field courses boost student success, support STEM diversity efforts, study reveals
Hands-on field learning key to retention, success of underrepresented biology studentsCredit: Mickie Tang The challenge of diversifying STEM fields may ...