Health Diversity News

• ATS 2023 ATS 2023 Welcomes the World to Washington The annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society will showcase the latest research in pulmonary care, critical care, and sleep medicine in clinical and scientific sessions, posters, and seminars.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2023
• Cancer Survivors With Functional Limitations Have Doubled The number of cancer survivors who report functional limitation has more than doubled in 20 years, according to a research letter published in JAMA Oncology.
  MDedge News, May 12, 2023
• CLL: Black Patients Die Sooner Than White Patients Although Black patients are much less likely to develop chronic lymphocytic leukemia than are White patients, they are more likely to die sooner from the disease.
  MDedge News, May 11, 2023
• AHA Flags Differing CVD Risk in Asian American Subgroups Examining Asian American subgroups separately is 'crucial' to understanding distinctions among them and how these differences affect their risk of type 2 diabetes and CVD, a new AHA statement says.
  Medscape Medical News, May 08, 2023
• More Rehospitalizations for Younger Women 1-Year Post-MI Women age 55 and younger have more adverse outcomes 1 year after myocardial infarction and are more likely to be rehospitalized than men of the same age.
  Medscape Medical News, May 04, 2023
• Severe Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality Lower in Immigrants The 'healthy immigrant effect' may partially explain differences in infant morbidity and mortality in low-income areas in Ontario.
  Medscape Medical News, April 20, 2023
• ACC/WCC 2023 Racial Disparities in Cardiotoxicity After Chemotherapy Black patients with cancer are significantly more likely to experience heart damage following chemotherapy than White patients are, a research review indicates.
  Medscape Medical News, April 20, 2023
• Perinatal HIV Nearly Eradicated in US Fewer women are giving birth to newborns with HIV, but the success does not extend to some communities.
  Medscape Medical News, April 18, 2023
• Breast Cancer Recurrence Rates Much Higher in Black, Asian Women Even when access and adherence to treatment are similar, rates of locoregional recurrence are nearly two times higher among Black and Asian women compared with White women, new data show.
  Medscape Medical News, April 17, 2023
• Weight Loss Linked to Early Death in Older but Healthy Adults Even a small amount of weight loss in seemingly healthy older individuals, around the age of 75, and particularly in men, is associated with an increased risk of premature death from various causes.
  Medscape Medical News, April 17, 2023
• Gap in Hepatitis C Treatment Initiation in First Nations Patients First Nations groups collaborated in a population-based study that identified shortcomings in care for patients with hepatitis C in Ontario.
  Medscape Medical News, April 14, 2023
• Feeling Loved as a Teen Leads to Healthier Adults Those who reported feeling loved, self-confident, happy, and optimistic as teenagers had better heart health when they reached adulthood.
  Quick Take, April 14, 2023
• Historical 'Redlining' Housing Policy Still Tied to Stroke Risk Structural racism in the form of historical housing discrimination in the US, known as "redlining," appears to still be linked to community stroke risk in the present day, a new study shows.
  Medscape Medical News, April 13, 2023
• AHA Statement Targets Nuance in CVD Risk Assessment of Women A new AHA statement highlights the importance of considering nonbiological and social factors when assessing CVD risk in women, particularly women of diverse races and ethnicities.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2023
• Racial Disparities Not Found in Hepatitis B Treatment Initiation When researchers compared patients who met treatment criteria, treatment initiation was similar across races and socioeconomic status. But that finding raises other questions.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2023
• COVID Caused 4.6-Year Drop in NYC Life Expectancy Non-White demographic groups had the highest drops. Life expectancy fell to 73 years for Black New Yorkers (a 5.5-year drop from 2019) and 77.3 years for Hispanic/Latino New Yorkers (a 6-year drop).
  WebMD Health News, April 10, 2023
• Disparities in MI Outcomes Persist Across Healthcare Systems Income-based disparities in care and outcomes for patients with acute MI are seen around the world, despite vastly different healthcare and social safety net systems, a new study shows.
  Medscape Medical News, April 05, 2023
• ATS: Take Race Out of Spirometry The American Thoracic Society now advises clinicians use a race-neutral average reference to assess lung function.
  Medscape Medical News, April 05, 2023
• HHS Unveils National Cancer Plan With Eight Achievable Goals The new plan from the US Department of Health and Human Services includes eight 'ambitious, achievable goals' to reduce the cancer death rate by at least half within 25 years.
  Medscape Medical News, April 04, 2023
• Bias, Lack of Access Make Long COVID Worse for Patients of Color "I was in a wheelchair when the doctor at Hopkins told me I had long COVID,” Liely said. “I just broke down and cried. The validation was the biggest thing for me."
  WebMD Health News, March 29, 2023