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Study shows US lags behind in transit safety programs for female riders
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Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by UCLA professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris documents the gap between women's transit safety needs and programs in the U.S. that respond to them.
Black women have double the risk of pregnancy complications
Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Black Caribbean and black African women in the UK have twice as much risk of experiencing severe pregnancy complications than white women, according to University of Oxford research.
Study finds high level of medical mistrust among minority women impacts quality of health care
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Nearly 70 percent of minority women agree that health-care organizations sometimes deceive or mislead patients, one of the key findings of a Michigan State University study that researchers say can prevent women from getting ...
Minorities less likely to know about breast cancer treatment options
Jul 30, 2008 |
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Nearly half of women treated for breast cancer did not know that their odds of being alive after five years are roughly the same whether they undergo mastectomy or breast conserving surgery. Minority women were even less ...
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On-job minority women harassment studied
Mar 21, 2006 |
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University of Toronto scientists say they're the first to empirically document that minority women face workplace harassment based on both sex and ethnicity.
Women, minorities more prone to filing grievances
May 12, 2008 |
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Many employees often do not file grievances even when presented with the opportunity to do so. A new study in Industrial Relations sought to assess the degree to which certain minority groups may be more or less prone to fil ...
Resting heart rate can predict heart attacks in women
Feb 04, 2009 |
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A simple measurement of resting pulse predicts coronary events in women independently of physical activity and common risk factors, such as smoking and alcohol consumption, finds a study published on bmj.com today.
Juvenile justice study: Minority youths of single parents more likely detained
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Mar 12, 2009 |
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As a teenager in the juvenile justice system, living in a single-parent household or having a family with criminal history doesn't help your case -- at least if you're a minority.
Serial cohabiters less likely than others to marry
Nov 06, 2008 |
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A new study in the Journal of Marriage and Family found that serial cohabiters are less likely than single-instance cohabiting unions to result in marriage. Similarly if serial cohabiters marry, divorce rates are very high. ...
UT Southwestern hospital halves its rate of premature births, researchers find
Feb 27, 2009 |
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UT Southwestern Medical Center's primary adult teaching hospital has cut its rate of preterm births by more than half in the past 15 years, even as national rates are rising, researchers have found.
Cancer gene mutation crossed ethnic lines
Dec 27, 2007 |
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Scientists in California have found that a gene mutation previously linked to Jewish breast cancer patients has apparently crossed ethnic lines.
'Triple negative' breast cancers linked to the young, minority
Mar 26, 2007 |
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So-called “triple negative” breast cancers, tumors that do not contain any of three significant tumor markers, are aggressive, deadly cancers that affect young, poor minority women, according to a new study.
Annual bone fracture rate almost 4 percent and double previous estimates
Jan 17, 2008 |
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The annual bone fracture rate in England is just short of 4% of the population, which is more than double previous estimates, suggests a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Mammography use among women younger than 40 years old differ between minority populations
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Breast cancer screening guidelines generally recommend mammography begin at age 40. However, based on prior national research, an estimated 34 percent of non-Hispanic black women, 30 percent of non-Hispanic white women and ...
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