Diversity in Medicine
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Asian American teens have highest rate of suicidal ideation
Prepandemic survey finds that 24% of these adolescents had thought about or planned suicide – more than Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics.
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Antidiabetes drug costs keep patients away
Patients with diabetes and high med co-pays had worse fill rates, but even with low copays uptake of effective but expensive antidiabetes drugs...
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Telemedicine in cancer care: Not all patients can access
Health care providers concerned that telemedicine expansion could widen cancer care disparities.
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Increased social services spending ups cancer survival of Blacks
Five-year overall survival increased 2.02% among non-Hispanic Black patients.
From the Journals
Uterine cancer mortality is highest in Black women
Trends of increased mortality in all women seem to be driven by non-endometrioid tumors.
Commentary
The whitest specialty: Bias
Most physicians, we believed, consider themselves to be, and strive to be, humane, compassionate, and egalitarian caregivers. The answer then...
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Race-, ethnicity-based clinical guidelines miss the mark: Study
“We just look at [our patients] and we say, ‘Their skin color looks black, and therefore we’re going to apply a different equation to them.’ ”
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Why do clinical trials still underrepresent minority groups?
The FDA wants researchers conducting clinical trials to submit a plan on how they will diversify participant pools. While the effort to undo...
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Race-based spirometry may lead to missed diagnoses
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Neurology, psychiatry studies overlook sex as a variable
This study points to a need for funding agencies to demand that researchers meet their mandates on sex- and gender-based analysis.
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Medical education programs tell how climate change affects health
Medical schools are educating the next generation of doctors on one of the most widespread, insidious health threats of our time.