Background: National guidelines recommend different pharmacologic management of hypertension (HTN) without comorbidities for Black/African Americans (BAA) compared with non-BAA. We sought to 1) identify if these…
Historically, suicide rates for African American adolescents have been low, relative to rates for youth of other racial-ethnic backgrounds. Since 2001, however, suicide rates among…
Cancer mortality has decreased among Black Americans, but they still have elevated mortality rates compared with White Americans, according to a study published online Feb.…
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends breast cancer screening for women aged 40 to 75 years, but evidence is insufficient for older women…
The most socially vulnerable counties are less likely to have any cancer clinical trial, according to a research letter published online May 7 in JAMA…
Black babies and children are more than twice as likely to die as white kids, and that gap has grown since the 1950s, a new…
Structurally marginalized groups experience disproportionately low rates of advanced care planning (ACP). To improve equitable patient-centered end-of-life care, the researchers examined barriers and facilitators to…
Women and Black patients are more likely to suffer life-changing complications from advanced heart and blood vessel procedures, a trio of new studies says. Women…
Black children are suspected to have experienced child abuse at higher rates than children of other racial and ethnic backgrounds, according to a study published…
Cancer deaths among Black men and women in the U.S. have declined during the past decade in the United States, a new American Cancer Society…