News tagged with gender disparities


Women's access to donated kidneys declines with age, particularly compared with men

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Younger women have equivalent access to kidney transplants compared with their male counterparts, but older women receive transplants much less frequently than older men, according to a study appearing in the March 2009 issue ...





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Closing race, poverty and gender gaps in advanced high school course-taking

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The latest research from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management explores the wide disparities in advanced high school course-taking (such as Advanced Placement courses) among race, poverty, and gender groups in Flo ...


Public expresses need for government intervention to reduce socio-economic disparities in health

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As Congress debates the public health care option, a recent study reveals greater public support for reducing health care disparities among socio-economic groups (i.e. by income or education) than among racial groups. The ...


Women, blacks, Medicare recipients less likely to be evaluated for liver transplantation

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created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patient race, gender and insurance status influence decisions about who will go on to receive liver transplants, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study. Available online and published in the September ...


Acculturation influences smoking cessation by Latino men

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Latino men who are more adapted to U.S. culture are more likely to quit smoking than their less-acculturated counterparts, according to research by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center published ...


Confronting health disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Research indicates that the social stigma that surrounds lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) teens leads to a variety of health risks such as substance use, risky sexual behaviors, eating disorders, suicidal ideation, ...


Highlighting racial disparities increases coverage and effectiveness of health news

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created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Effective communication of health news is needed to raise awareness and encourage behavior changes in populations who experience health disparities, or inequalities in health status, according to the U.S. Department of Health ...


Higher risk of GI diseases may mean more vigilance, earlier screenings for minorities

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Three studies presented this week at the American College of Gastroenterology's 74th Annual Scientific meeting in San Diego underscore the growing disparities in gastrointestinal disease, particularly colon cancer and Barrett's ...


Pancreatic cancer affects blacks at higher rates

Pancreatic cancer affects blacks at higher rates

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Regardless of risk factors linked to pancreatic cancer, such as smoking and body mass index (BMI), blacks experienced higher rates of pancreatic cancer death than whites.


Use of statins favors the wealthy, creating new social disparities in cholesterol

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created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Since the introduction of statins to treat high cholesterol, the decline in lipid levels experienced by the wealthy has been double that experienced by the poor. While statins are highly effective in reducing cholesterol ...


Caucasians are at higher risk of developing Ewing's sarcoma than other races

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The largest analysis of its kind has found that Caucasians are much more likely than people in other racial/ethnic groups to develop a rare bone and soft tissue cancer called Ewing's sarcoma. In addition, among Caucasians ...



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