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Cancer deaths falling overall, but rising in women under 50 while racial disparities persist
07 Feb 2025 17:15 GMT
CLEVELAND, Ohio — While cancer death rates are falling overall, the rising incidence of cancer in young and middle-aged women is placing a burden on family caregivers, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual report on cancer facts and trends.
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Johnson: Medicare Advantage deserves hard look from Musk
07 Feb 2025 10:29 GMT
… program that typically bundles medical, hospital, and drug coverage, often including extras … -coding.” This is when a health plan deliberately diagnoses patients with … -bonus payments have increased racial disparities in how Medicare funds are distributed. And …
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Health Equity is Essential to Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance
06 Feb 2025 22:04 GMT
… to have a multi-drug resistant infection and to … to healthcare and inadequate management of chronic diseases.17Chronic … and regulatory reforms. J Pharmacol Pharmacother. 2014;5(1):4 … KK, Abdul-Mutakabbir JC. Racial disparities among candidemic patients at a …
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Racial disparities found in migraine diagnosis for children and teens
06 Feb 2025 01:52 GMT
Children and young people who are Black or Hispanic are less likely to be diagnosed with migraine than those who are white when being seen for headache in a pediatric emergency department, according to a study published in the February 5, 2025, online …
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Inside New York's Bold Plan To Decriminalize Drug Possession
06 Feb 2025 20:01 GMT
… penalties for personal drug possession, prioritizing public health over punishment. The … .
The bill explicitly addresses racial disparities in drug law enforcement, acknowledging that … consensus among health experts that SUD is a medical condition, not …
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Systemic barriers in healthcare impact Black community
06 Feb 2025 18:23 GMT
… inform medical judgments, which may contribute to racial disparities in … health literacy plays a role in the disproportionate disease … -19 pandemic increased health inequities worldwide as … , navigating the Canadian healthcare system is challenging because …
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Programmed Cell Death Ligand 1 (PD-L1) and major Histocompatibility Complex Class I (MHC Class I) Expression Patterns and Their Pathologic Associations in triple-Negative Breast Cancer
06 Feb 2025 08:13 GMT
… which could impact disease onset and progression. … University, Faculty of Medicine’s Clinical Epidemiology … Drug Administration (FDA) approvals of immune checkpoint inhibitors. J Immunother Cancer … D. Racial disparity and triple-negative breast cancer in …
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Could The FDA’s Recently Approved Pap Smear Alternative Reduce Racial Disparities In Cervical Cancer Deaths?
03 Feb 2025 16:21 GMT
… cancer each year, according to data from the Centers for Disease … by the Food and Drug Administration might help … kits in Australia.
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Racial disparities require more than one … Mexico published in Preventative Medicine found that between January …
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Researchers awarded over half a million pounds for study into health inequalities
05 Feb 2025 12:12 GMT
… Professor of Public Health at the School of Medicine, University of Sunderland … , Head of the School of Medicine and Professor of General Practice … Prostate Cancer Research’s racial disparities research programme, aimed at addressing the health inequalities …
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Ohio State’s SAPS organization to address Black mental health and reproductive justice issues at Ohio Union
05 Feb 2025 08:07 GMT
… surrounding Black mental health struggles and reproductive justice, titled “Racial Disparities in Sexual … topics, including Black trauma in healthcare, being Black in a … community, promote mental and physical health in our communities,” Madison said …