News tagged with salary disparities


Sorry no news are found ... Your search criteria may have been too narrow. You can quickly re-sort the news in different ways by clicking on the tabs at the top of this page.




Search results for salary disparities


Cancer survival disparities for most minority populations increase as cancers become more treatable

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Racial and ethnic disparities in cancer survival are greatest for cancers that can be detected early and treated successfully, including breast and prostate cancer, according to a study by researchers at Columbia University's ...


Study finds racial disparities exist in radiation therapy rates for early stage breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Black women are less likely than white women to receive radiation therapy after a lumpectomy, the standard of care for early stage breast cancer, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...


Wide Disparities Found in Age of Hospitalization for Patients of Different Races

Wide Disparities Found in Age of Hospitalization for Patients of Different Races

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from Yale School of Public Health shows that blacks are admitted to the hospital at a significantly younger age than their white peers for a host of preventable medical conditions, ...


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 ...


Racial differences in medication use

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Older adults experience a number of medication-related problems, including under treatment, suboptimal drugs, suboptimal dosing, and non-adherence, which can have negative effects on their quality of life. Now new research, ...


Racial disparity in lung cancer rates narrowed in young adults due to larger decrease in smoking

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Effective prevention of smoking among teenagers, particularly black teenagers, is narrowing the disparity in lung cancer rates between blacks and whites, according to a report published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & ...


Hourly employees happier than salaried

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People paid by the hour exhibit a stronger relationship between income and happiness, according to a study published in the current issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB), the official journal of the So ...


Lower income women report more insurance-based discrimination during pregnancy, delivery

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

According to an analysis of statewide data taken from 1998-2001, women in Oregon who made less than $50,000 a year were more than three times likely to report they were discriminated against by health providers because of ...


Chinese-American and Korean-American women at highest risk for diabetes in pregnancy

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than 10 percent of women of Chinese and Korean heritage may be at risk for developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 16,000 women in Hawaii that appears in the December issue of ...


Microsoft says cost-cutting CFO to step down

Technology / Business

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said its chief financial officer is departing at the end of the year and will be replaced by the man now responsible for the books at the division that produces Microsoft Office and other ...



List of search results for salary disparities