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Health disparities (also called healthcare inequality in some countries) refer to gaps in the quality of health and health care across racial, ethnic, sexual orientation and socioeconomic groups.

Study offers the standard of surgical care for early-stage breast cancer

Among accredited U.S. cancer centers, hospitals serving primarily minority patients are as likely as other hospitals to offer the standard of surgical care for early-stage breast cancer, according to results presented at the virtual American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2020.

5 Oct 2020

UB researchers receive grant to help pharmacies build community health worker programs

University at Buffalo researchers have received a grant from the Community Pharmacy Foundation to help add community health workers to pharmacies to better connect patients to critical services and lower health care costs.

1 Oct 2020

Researchers receive NCI grant to study role of collagens in breast cancer

An MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researcher received a $3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study how patterns of collagens can serve as biomarkers of breast cancer risk and potentially reveal clues to what might be driving health disparities.

1 Oct 2020

Study links poorer cognitive performance with greater risk for impaired daily life activities

Subtle differences in cognition may help identify individuals at risk for becoming dependent years later upon others to complete daily activities, such as managing medications or finances and other essential activities.

30 Sep 2020

NIH awards $5 million grant to reduce COVID-19-related health disparities

To help reduce COVID-19-related health disparities in vulnerable populations in Texas, a multi-institutional team of researchers led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will identify disease hotspots and testing deserts in three racially diverse areas, and then develop and evaluate intervention strategies to increase COVID-19 testing.

30 Sep 2020

Persistent-poverty counties face high risk of cancer mortality

Residents of counties that experience persistent poverty face a disproportionately high risk of cancer mortality, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

30 Sep 2020

Study examines the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on health care disparities

A new Viewpoint piece published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines the ways in which COVID-19 disproportionately impacts historically disadvantaged communities of color in the United States, and how baseline inequalities in our health system are amplified by the pandemic.

25 Sep 2020

New $1.5 million, multi-state data project to examine COVID-19 outcomes and treatments

The power of data, often an underappreciated catalyst to fixing the world's pressing problems, was recognized by Dr. Sally Hodder as a critical key in battling COVID-19 before West Virginia even reported its first case.

24 Sep 2020

Study provides the most detailed picture on stimulant use by LGB individuals

Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals report higher rates of medical, non-medical, and illegal stimulant use compared to heterosexuals, mirroring patterns seen in other substance use.

24 Sep 2020

As fires and floods wreak havoc on health, new climate center seeks solutions

For the past month, record-breaking wildfires have torched millions of acres from the Mexican border well into Canada, their smoke producing air so toxic that millions of people remained indoors for days on end while many visited hospitals because of respiratory distress.

24 Sep 2020

Study provides evidence of stark social inequities in COVID-19 outcomes

A geocoding approach - linking routinely collected public health data to neighborhood socioeconomic factors - shows consistently higher rates of COVID-19 illness and death among people living in more-disadvantaged communities, reports a study in the November/December Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

22 Sep 2020

Research consortium receives $111 million NCI grant to prevent, treat HIV-related cancers

The widespread use of antiretroviral therapy to suppress the HIV virus has helped tens of millions of people with HIV live healthier, longer lives--but an unfortunate consequence of people living longer with HIV is an increased risk of cancer.

22 Sep 2020

New data shows alarming surge in opioid-related overdoses during COVID-19

In a paper published Friday by the Journal of the American Medical Association, Virginia Commonwealth University researchers released data showing an alarming surge in opioid-related overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

22 Sep 2020

Study detects key differences in immune responses of adults and children with COVID-19

The first study comparing the immune responses of adults and children with COVID-19 has detected key differences that may contribute to understanding why children usually have milder disease than adults.

22 Sep 2020

Structural and systemic racism in health care system affects HIV care for black women

For Black women in the southern United States, mistrust of the health care system that is grounded in structural and systemic racism is a key factor affecting participation in HIV prevention and treatment services, reports a study in the September/October issue of The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (JANAC). The official journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, JANAC is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

18 Sep 2020

UTEP's MARC receives federal grant to fight opioid abuse in West Texas rural counties

The University of Texas at El Paso's Minority AIDS Research Center (MARC) is the subrecipient of a $1 million implementation grant to target substance use disorders and opioid use disorders in five rural counties along the Texas-Mexico border.

16 Sep 2020

A comprehensive response to COVID-19 must recognize the value of care work

Three American researchers have looked at the role of women in caring for COVID-19 affected individuals. The pandemic that has gripped the world for over six months now has skewed gender roles, they noted.

15 Sep 2020

NIH provides additional support for large scale study of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers

To meet the pressing need to better understand the prevalence, progression, and clinical impact of Alzheimer's disease among Mexican Americans, the National Institutes of Health has added funding for more biomarker measures, including positron emission tomography imaging, to the ongoing Health and Aging Brain Among Latino Elders Study.

14 Sep 2020

Safety-net practices in poor areas have lower rates of payment bonuses, shows MIPS performance data

A team of researchers led by Kenton Johnston, Ph.D., an associate professor of health management and policy at Saint Louis University's College for Public Health and Social Justice, conducted a study to investigate how outpatient clinicians that treated disproportionately high caseloads of socially at-risk Medicare patients (safety-net clinicians) performed under Medicare's new mandatory Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)

11 Sep 2020

Study sheds light on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Blacks

In a study published in JAMA today, Mount Sinai researchers report findings that shed some light on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Blacks, who have experienced rates of infection and death that are much greater, in some areas twice and three times more, than their proportion of the population.

11 Sep 2020

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Study offers the standard of surgical care for early-stage breast cancer

UB researchers receive grant to help pharmacies build community health worker programs

Researchers receive NCI grant to study role of collagens in breast cancer

Study links poorer cognitive performance with greater risk for impaired daily life activities

NIH awards $5 million grant to reduce COVID-19-related health disparities

Persistent-poverty counties face high risk of cancer mortality

Study examines the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on health care disparities

New $1.5 million, multi-state data project to examine COVID-19 outcomes and treatments

Study provides the most detailed picture on stimulant use by LGB individuals

As fires and floods wreak havoc on health, new climate center seeks solutions

Study provides evidence of stark social inequities in COVID-19 outcomes

Research consortium receives $111 million NCI grant to prevent, treat HIV-related cancers

New data shows alarming surge in opioid-related overdoses during COVID-19

Study detects key differences in immune responses of adults and children with COVID-19

Structural and systemic racism in health care system affects HIV care for black women

UTEP's MARC receives federal grant to fight opioid abuse in West Texas rural counties

A comprehensive response to COVID-19 must recognize the value of care work

NIH provides additional support for large scale study of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers

Safety-net practices in poor areas have lower rates of payment bonuses, shows MIPS performance data

Study sheds light on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Blacks

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