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Doctors Urge Congress to Improve Black Maternal Mortality Rates
Earlier this month, doctors testified before Congress to address high rates of maternal mortality throughout the United States and its disproportionate impact on Black women. At the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, five medical professionals discussed racial disparities in maternal mortality and barriers that discourage people of color from entering the medical profession, according to the Idaho Capital Sun.
AIDS Walk New York 2024 Raises Nearly $1.9M as HIV Funding Cuts Loom
Over 10,000 participants at the 39th annual AIDS Walk New York helped raise $1,872,909 for GMHC and other HIV service providers in the tristate area—and donations are still being collected! The 2024 theme was “Stride Past Stigma.”. You can watch the AIDS Walk New York opening ceremony on...
Genetics Studies Have a Diversity Problem That Researchers Struggle To Fix
When he recently walked into the dental clinic at the Medical University of South Carolina donning a bright-blue pullover with “In Our DNA SC” embroidered prominently on the front, Lee Moultrie said, two Black women stopped him to ask questions. “It’s a walking billboard,” said Moultrie, a health...
Cancer Clinical Trials Save Lives, and Diversity Matters
In the realm of cancer research, clinical trials can lead to more effective drugs, better treatments, and ways to prevent and detect cancer. They are a key step in the journey from scientific discoveries to helping current and future patients. Clinical trials are a major factor behind a 33% drop in the U.S. cancer death rate and an estimated 3.8 million cancer deaths avoided over the last four decades.
End of Internet Subsidies for Low-Income Households Threatens Telehealth Access
For Cindy Westman, $30 buys a week’s worth of gas to drive to medical appointments and run errands. It’s also how much she spent on her monthly internet bill before the federal Affordable Connectivity Program stepped in and covered her payments. “When you have low income and you...
Colorectal Cancer Cases More than Tripled Among Teens Over Two Decades
Colorectal cancer incidence has steadily increased among younger people in the U.S. over the last two decades, with the youngest seeing the most dramatic jumps, according to a study [presented at] Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2024. Between 1999 and 2020, the rate of colorectal cancers grew 500% among children ages 10 to 14, 333% among teens aged 15 to 19, and 185% among young adults ages 20 to 24, researchers said.
Clean Needles Save Lives. In Some States, They Might Not Be Legal.
Kim Botteicher hardly thinks of herself as a criminal. On the main floor of a former Catholic church in Bolivar, Pennsylvania, Botteicher runs a flower shop and cafe. In the former church’s basement, she also operates a nonprofit organization focused on helping people caught up in the drug epidemic get back on their feet.
Herpes Cure With Gene Editing Makes Progress in Laboratory Studies
Researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center have found in pre-clinical studies that an experimental gene therapy for genital and oral herpes removed 90% or more of the infection and suppressed how much virus can be released from an infected individual, which suggests that the therapy would also reduce the spread of the virus.
Hepatitis Testing Day 2024
Millions of Americans have chronic viral hepatitis; most of them do not know they have it. The goal of Hepatitis Testing Day (May 19) is to help raise awareness of hepatitis B and hepatitis C and to encourage more individuals to learn their status. All adults aged 18 years and older are recommended to be screened at least once in their lifetimes for hepatitis B and hepatitis C.
NIAID Marks HIV Vaccine Awareness Day 2024
Vaccines consistently transform public health, and HIV vaccine research has been a pillar of NIAID’s scientific mission since the beginning of the HIV pandemic. An HIV vaccine has proven to be among the most daunting scientific challenges, but has inspired exceptional innovation and collaboration in all aspects of our research approach. On the 27th observance of HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (Saturday, May 18), we express our gratitude to the dedicated global community of scientists, advocates, study participants, study staff, and funders working toward a safe, effective, durable, and accessible HIV vaccine.
Studies Show Progress on Novel HIV Vaccine Approaches
Coinciding with HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, five research teams reported advances in novel HIV vaccine strategies designed to spur production of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) that target hidden parts of the virus. While these findings are promising, they are still early steps in the years-long process of vaccine development. Scientists...
Healthy Recipe: Baba Ganoush
Take a break from the same old hummus and try this smoky, hearty dip. Baba ganoush is extremely easy to make, and beyond eggplant, our recipe uses items you probably already have in your fridge. 6 servings. 9 ingredients. 10 min prep. Ingredients. 3 medium Italian eggplants. 2 cloves of...
Adverse Social Determinants of Health Linked to Treatment-Resistant Hypertension in Black Americans
People were more likely to develop a type of treatment-resistant hypertension when they experienced adverse effects of economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status, known as social determinants of health. Additionally, this risk was higher among Black American adults than white American adults, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health. [Results were published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.]
Dietary Choices Are Linked to Higher Rates of Preeclampsia Among Latinas
For pregnant Latinas, food choices could reduce the risk of preeclampsia, a dangerous type of high blood pressure, and a diet based on cultural food preferences, rather than on U.S. government benchmarks, is more likely to help ward off the illness, a new study shows. Researchers at the USC Keck...
Colorectal Cancer Risk and Red and Processed Meat
People worried about colorectal cancer may want to put those hot dogs and hamburgers on hold this summer. New research from a Fred Hutch Cancer Center collaboration with USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and published in the March issue of the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention quantifies the risk posed by eating red or processed meat. The collaboration also found two genetic mutations that, for those carrying them, make eating red and processed meat even more hazardous.
Endurance Exercise Affects All Tissues of the Body, Even Those Not Normally Associated With Movement
A large research project in young adult rats has found that that all bodily tissues tested respond to exercise training, amounting to over 35,000 biological molecules that respond and adapt to endurance exercise over time, including tissues from organs not usually associated with exercise. Researchers also found differences in responses between male and female rats that were more widespread than anticipated, highlighting the importance of including animals of both sexes in pre-clinical research.
New Blood Test Accurately Detects Ovarian Cancer
A novel test for detecting high-grade ovarian cancer, called OvaPrint, successfully diagnosed 91% of malignant tumors, according to study findings published in Clinical Cancer Research. High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) is the most deadly type of epithelial ovarian cancer. The malignancy typically grows slowly, seldom causes symptoms at early stages...
Liver Cancer Screening Improves Survival but Is Underused
Screening for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer, led to earlier detection and was associated with improved survival, but only about 40% of cases were detected this way, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open. Based on these findings, greater efforts are needed to increase screening among people at risk, including those with viral hepatitis or fatty liver disease.
WHO Overturns Dogma on Airborne Disease Spread. The CDC Might Not Act on It.
The World Health Organization has issued a report that transforms how the world understands respiratory infections like COVID-19, influenza, and measles. Motivated by grave missteps in the pandemic, the WHO convened about 50 experts in virology, epidemiology, aerosol science, and bioengineering, among other specialties, who spent two years poring through the evidence on how airborne viruses and bacteria spread.
Alabama Plans to Eliminate Cervical Cancer Within 10 Years
Within the next decade, Alabama aims to become the first state to eliminate cervical cancer. Cervical cancer was once one of the most common causes of death for American women, according to the American Cancer Society. But since the 1970s, incidence and mortality rates for cervical cancer in have dropped by more than half, largely due to improved cancer screening and prevention, including Pap tests and the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.
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