Diversity in Medicine
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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.
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White children more likely to get imaging in EDs: Study
An analysis of more than 12 million visits showed that non-Hispanic Black children were less likely to get diagnostic imaging than non-Hispanic...
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Uterine cancer mortality is highest in Black women
Trends of increased mortality in all women seem to be driven by non-endometrioid tumors.
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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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Screening for diabetes at normal BMIs could cut racial disparities
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...
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Telehealth continues to loom large, say experts
Nine out of ten patients would recommend telemedicine to friends and family, and most physicians say they’re willing to devote significant time to...
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How to address social determinants of health, according to expert panel
A panel of experts talked about policies to address social determinants of health at the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians.
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Black, senior patients more likely to get unneeded antibiotics
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Fetuses suffer the effects of poverty in the womb
Across the countries studied, babies were smaller at birth if they came from a lower-income household, and this was already apparent at 20 weeks...
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Sex differences in COPD slow to be recognized, treated