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Mashup Score: 0Sex and Race Differences in the Evaluation and Treatment of Young Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department With Chest Pain - 2 year(s) ago
Background Acute myocardial infarctions are increasingly common among young adults. We investigated sex and racial differences in the evaluation of chest pain (CP) among young adults presenting to …
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Mashup Score: 6Research - 2 year(s) ago
Dashboards and Data CDC COVID Data Tracker – Health Equity Data The Morehouse School of Medicine and Satcher Health Leadership Institute created this dashboard compiling health equity data that compares COVID-19 infection rates with demographic data and explores the relationships between a variety of…
Source: www.idsociety.orgCategories: Infectious Disease, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 7On Rikers Island, a Doctor Who Tends to the Oldest and Sickest - 3 year(s) ago
Insights from Dr. Rachael Bedard, a jail-based geriatrician.
Source: www.nytimes.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 3Why Have Thyroid Cancer Diagnoses Spiked for US Women? - 3 year(s) ago
Women are far more likely than men to be diagnosed with small thyroid cancers that probably would have never caused problems during their lifetime, a new study finds. The results help explain why thyroid cancer seems to be more common in women and suggests that women are likely being overdiagnosed and overtreated for it.
Source: National Cancer InstituteCategories: Hem/Onc News and Journals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Last year, Becker’s spoke to the top 10 hospitals named to U.S. News and World Report’s 2020-21 Best Hospitals Honor Roll to look at what they are doing to address health disparities. A year later, Becker’s checked in with those systems to look at how their health equity initiatives have evolved, what has been the most successful and if there are any results to report from those initiatives.
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Mashup Score: 14
Objective To estimate changes in life expectancy in 2010-18 and during the covid-19 pandemic in 2020 across population groups in the United States and to compare outcomes with peer nations. Design Simulations of provisional mortality data. Setting US and 16 other high income countries in 2010-18 and 2020, by sex, including an analysis of US outcomes by race and ethnicity. Population Data for…
Source: The BMJCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
“The US had a much larger ⬇️ in life expectancy b/w 2018-2020 than other high income nations w. ⬆️ losses among Hispanic & Black people. Continued inequitable effects on minority groups are likely the products of longstanding policy & systemic racism.” https://t.co/MqGFfh4Zkd https://t.co/CgbSEA5wfX
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Falling off the life expectancy cliff is easier if you are poor and more likely if you are minority in America. Another wake up call to address #HealthDisparity and #SocialDeterminantsofHealth in our broken health delivery systems. https://t.co/TQ4ujv6bBt
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In the US, decreases in life expectancy in Hispanics & Blacks were about 2-3 times greater than in Whites reversing yrs of progress in reducing racial & ethnic disparities, lowering life expectancy of Black men to 67.73 years, a level not seen since 1998 https://t.co/TQ4ujv6bBt https://t.co/NpUwhuIef2
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Mashup Score: 0Wolters Kluwer Health - 3 year(s) ago
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Mashup Score: 0Wolters Kluwer Health - 3 year(s) ago
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Mashup Score: 0The Cancer News Daily - 3 year(s) ago
The latest in cancer medicine and translational research by Wafik El-Deiry MDPhD
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Mashup Score: 2Understanding Socioeconomic Disparities in Lung Cancer Care - 3 year(s) ago
A recent study found that sociodemographic factors such as race, marital, income, and insurance status are associated with disparities in the receipt of lung cancer treatment, according to findings presented at the NCCN 2021 Virtual Annual Conference (Abstract EPR21-039).
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Women and Black adults waited longer in ER for chest pain evaluation, according to research by @darcybanco_md & colleagues published in @JAHA_AHA. #HealthDisparity https://t.co/twAs2drur8