Health Diversity News

• Women With Lung Cancer Live Longer Than Men The survival advantage for women with lung cancer over that of men is largely accounted for by known prognostic factors, Australian researchers report.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• Good News, Bad News for Older Survivors of Acute MI Quality approaches to secondary prevention appear to be paying dividends but more work is needed to close the gap for certain older Americans, a new study suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2022
• How Successful Hospitals Reduce Maternal Morbidity A new study of hospitals in New York City identified several common themes associated with good performance.
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2022
• What Are Common Misconceptions About Nurses? Nurses nationwide recently expressed outrage after Bravo talk show host Andy Cohen commented about the attractiveness of a nurse-actress on his show. Do you confront misconceptions about your role?
  Medscape Reader Polls, May 10, 2022
• Genes Influence Body Fat More Than Lean Mass Genetic susceptibility to having larger body size in childhood and early adulthood affected body fat more than lean mass, and the links between genetic profiles and adiposity also showed sex differences.
  First Look, May 10, 2022
• Screening for Diabetes at Normal BMIs Could Cut Racial Disparities Authors suggest diabetes screening for Asian and Black individuals aged 35 and over, even at BMIs that are not considered overweight, would be 'a good place to start' to reduce disparities.
  Medscape Medical News, May 09, 2022
• Neurology, Psychiatry Studies Overlook Sex as a Variable A survey of more than 3000 neurology and psychiatry studies found that the vast majority failed to use participants' sex as a variable for determining gender-based differences.
  Medscape Medical News, May 09, 2022
• ARVO 2022 White People Receive More Macular Degeneration Treatment Non-Hispanic White people get more treatments for wet macular degeneration treatment than people of other races and ethnicities.
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2022
• Why Do Clinical Trials Still Underrepresent Minority Groups? FDA wants researchers conducting clinical trials to submit a plan on how they will diversify participant pools. While the effort to undo underrepresentation is appreciated, many say it's not enough.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• Black Patients in US Face Delays in Kidney Stone Surgery Regardless of Insurance Status Black patients who visited the emergency department for nephrolithiasis were more likely than patients of other races to experience delays in surgery regardless of insurance status, researchers found.
  Reuters Health Information, May 04, 2022
• Adequately PrEPping the Next Generation Despite advances in HIV prevention, adolescents and young adults are still sorely unprepared.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• Race, Sex Affect NT-proBNP Levels When Assessing Heart Failure Risk The absolute risk of heart failure associated with a given NT-proBNP volume varied substantially by sex and race in a cohort study.
  Reuters Health Information, May 03, 2022
• Adapting a Zero Suicide Approach to Native Communities Native Americans have the highest rates of suicide of any racial or ethnic group in the United States.
  WebMD Health News, May 03, 2022
• ECO 2022 Obesity 'Epidemic' in Europe as Experts Convene at ECO Conference Medscape takes a look at what lies ahead at this week's European Congress on Obesity. Conference Chair Gijs Goossens shares his views on important research topics.
  Medscape Medical News, May 03, 2022
• Premature Return to Play After Concussion Has Decreased Rates of premature return to play among student athletes following a concussion are improving, but rates of premature return to learn have remained unchanged over time.
  Medscape Medical News, May 02, 2022
• Air Pollution a Seizure Trigger for Patients With Epilepsy Patients with epilepsy can lessen the risk by not going outside or by using an air filtration system when carbon monoxide levels are elevated.
  Medscape Medical News, May 02, 2022
• Higher 'Chemical Restraint' Rates in Black Psych Patients in the ED Black patients presenting with psychiatric complaints to hospital emergency departments across the US are 63% more likely to receive chemical sedation than their White counterparts.
  Medscape Medical News, May 02, 2022
• BSR 2022 Lupus May Lead to Worse Stroke Outcomes for Women, but Not Men Women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were 20% more likely to have a prolonged hospital stay and 28% less likely to have a routine home discharge, compared with patients who did not have SLE.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2022
• Substantial Toxic Effects of Breast Radiotherapy Often Missed Substantial Toxic Effects of Breast Radiotherapy Often Missed
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2022
• HRS 2022 Why Are Numbers of Women, Minorities So Low in Cardiac EP? The very low number of women and individuals from ethnic minorities in the cardiac electrophysiology speciality in the United States has been highlighted in two new studies.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2022