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Released: 23-Oct-2023 11:05 AM EDT
It's easier to fit in in a Muslim country, but racism and hostility hold you back
COST

Refugees in Turkey face challenges, including racism and religious differences

Newswise: Aboriginal bush foods garden: Growing culture from the ROOTS up
Released: 19-Oct-2023 7:05 PM EDT
Aboriginal bush foods garden: Growing culture from the ROOTS up
University of South Australia

A bush foods garden cultivated in the heart of Barngala Country is hoping to grow cultural connectedness among young Aboriginal people in a move to positively affect their health and life trajectories.

Released: 18-Oct-2023 5:05 PM EDT
The encounter between Neanderthals and Sapiens as told by their genomes
Université de Genève (University of Geneva)

About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in the western part of the Eurasian continent, gave way to Homo sapiens, who had arrived from Africa.

Released: 18-Oct-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Test of police implicit bias training shows modest improvements
Washington State University

A two-part training designed to help police officers recognize their implicit bias, revealed some behavior improvement and lowered citizen discrimination complaints in a controlled study.

Released: 17-Oct-2023 10:05 PM EDT
Missourians Settle the Missour-ee, Missour-uh Debate
Saint Louis University

Politicians have crisscrossed the state for years, sharing their vision for Missour-ee or Missour-uh, depending on where they spoke. Now, as the state celebrates Missouri Day on Wednesday, Missourians have spoken about how they say their state’s name.

Newswise: Are New Therapies on the Horizon for Painful Skin Condition?
Released: 17-Oct-2023 8:00 AM EDT
Are New Therapies on the Horizon for Painful Skin Condition?
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Chronic inflammation of the skin, or Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS), disproportionately affects women and people of color. It can be debilitating, negatively impacting suffers’ quality of life, physical function, work productivity, and the social and emotional wellbeing.

9-Oct-2023 1:30 PM EDT
Asian, Hispanic and Black children with ear infections less likely to see ENT doctors, have ear tubes placed, study suggests
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

Asian, Hispanic and Black children are much less likely to see ear, nose and throat (ENT) doctors, or otolaryngologists, and receive ear tubes for recurring ear infections.

Released: 16-Oct-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Firearm Exposure Associated With Poorer Health in Communities Around the U.S.
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Gun violence is tied to poverty, unemployment, broken families, disengaged youth and racial segregation, according to a study by the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers.

Released: 13-Oct-2023 4:05 PM EDT
Organized Neurosurgery’s Statement on the Events in the Middle East
American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons Washington Office

The following statement is issued on behalf of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, American Board of Neurological Surgery, Congress of Neurological Surgeons and Society of Neurological Surgeons on behalf of our neurosurgical colleagues and the global society we are privileged to serve.

Released: 13-Oct-2023 12:05 PM EDT
Groundbreaking genomics project will improve global diversity in population health insight
University of Bristol

An international collaboration is aiming to improve global health by uncovering the effects of genomic and environmental diversity on differences in disease risk observed across the global population, thanks to a new partnership of 20 research groups from around the world.

Released: 12-Oct-2023 2:05 PM EDT
Advertising rental housing in Spanish puts off many potential renters
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Publishing an ad for an apartment or rental home in Spanish may seem like it would broaden the pool of potential renters, but new research shows it can harm rental-seekers’ perception of the property and its neighborhood.Finding a new apartment or home to rent can be nerve-wracking and tedious. It is increasingly digital and there are thousands of websites and Facebook groups for prospective renters to peruse.

   
Released: 11-Oct-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Ujima Freedom Schools: Bringing Empowerment, Joy, and Hope to Young Black Scholars
College of Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

This summer, around 150 youth, mostly Black and Latinx, took part in Ujima Freedom School in Champaign, a joint effort involving the College of Education and the University of Illinois that is aimed at transforming lives and communities.

10-Oct-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Disparities Persist Across Levels of Surgery Department Leadership in US
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Women and those from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in medicine (URiM) not only occupy few leadership roles in surgical departments but also tend to be clustered into certain leadership roles, according to a new analysis led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Released: 10-Oct-2023 12:05 PM EDT
Study: Access to quality parks not equal
University of Delaware

University of Delaware researchers found inequality in access to high quality parks. Focusing on Philadelphia, they discovered that the majority of parks with strong ratings were found in affluent areas, while green spaces in marginalized communities had fewer amenities and more safety concerns.

Released: 9-Oct-2023 12:05 PM EDT
Black Patients More Likely to Perceive Racial Bias From Orthopaedic Surgeons
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

Black patients report more difficulties relating to their orthopaedic surgeon and are more likely to perceive bias from their surgeon,as compared with White patients, reports a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio in partnership with Wolters Kluwer.

Newswise: Chula Emphasizes on the Effort to Drive the Thai Economy with Thai Soft Power Through Research and Innovation, Focusing on 2Ts for Cultural Empowerment
Released: 6-Oct-2023 8:55 AM EDT
Chula Emphasizes on the Effort to Drive the Thai Economy with Thai Soft Power Through Research and Innovation, Focusing on 2Ts for Cultural Empowerment
Chulalongkorn University

Chula Marketing professor draws attention to the strengths and weaknesses that Thai entrepreneurs and related sectors should immediately address so that the Thai economy can soar with soft power while revealing Chula’s readiness to drive research and social innovation to create the leaders of the future and drive Thai soft power to the global society.

Newswise: MD Anderson Launches Collaborative Initiative to Reduce Breast Cancer Disparities in Houston Area
Released: 5-Oct-2023 10:00 AM EDT
MD Anderson Launches Collaborative Initiative to Reduce Breast Cancer Disparities in Houston Area
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center launches a community-wide health care initiative to reduce breast cancer disparities in the Houston area, particularly for Black women. Texas Health Equity Alliance for Breast Cancer (THEAL), seeks to lower the Black/white breast cancer mortality gap in Harris County by 15% over the next decade.

   
Released: 4-Oct-2023 2:05 PM EDT
Aging in place: U-M study highlights racial disparities among older adults
University of Michigan

Roughly 40% of older Black adults live with a disability, compared to only one-third of older adults overall.

Newswise: UAH Nursing researcher to study cardiometabolic disease among Black women in the Deep South
Released: 3-Oct-2023 3:05 PM EDT
UAH Nursing researcher to study cardiometabolic disease among Black women in the Deep South
University of Alabama Huntsville

A researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been awarded a $179,000 subcontract to explore community-based strategies for reducing high-burden chronic disease like obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer as part of an overall award totaling $4.2 million.

Released: 3-Oct-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Organizing can give tenants power to effect change
Cornell University

In new research, Jamila Michener, associate professor of government, demonstrates how people within racially and economically marginalized communities can, through organizing, build political power in response to poor living conditions.

28-Sep-2023 11:05 PM EDT
Precision medicine navigators increase genomic testing rates for Black patients with prostate cancer
American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)

The presence of a clinical navigator to act as a liaison between people with prostate cancer and the health care system greatly increases the likelihood that patients, especially Black patients, will receive advanced testing that can help predict the severity of their disease and guide treatment, a new study suggests.

Newswise: Study Links Sleep Duration with Brain Volume in Older Hispanic Adults
Released: 29-Sep-2023 12:05 PM EDT
Study Links Sleep Duration with Brain Volume in Older Hispanic Adults
University of Miami Health System, Miller School of Medicine

The work of principal investigator Alberto Ramos, M.D., M.S., underscores the importance of sleep studies for a group that has an elevated risk for Alzheimer’s disease.

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Released: 28-Sep-2023 2:05 PM EDT
Why Breast Cancer Clinical Trials Need to Include More Black Women
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Researchers are working to improve outcomes for Black women with breast cancer – including through increased participation in clinical trials, which helps find better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.

Released: 28-Sep-2023 2:05 PM EDT
5 Reasons It’s Important for People of Color to Take Part in Clinical Trials
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

To become part of the standard of care in doctors’ offices and hospitals and to be covered by health insurance, new medications and procedures go through a rigorous testing process.

Newswise: UTEP Awarded $7 Million to Support Hispanic-Serving Institutions Across the Country
Released: 27-Sep-2023 4:05 PM EDT
UTEP Awarded $7 Million to Support Hispanic-Serving Institutions Across the Country
University of Texas at El Paso

The new grant, known as NODE (Network Opportunities for Developing Equitable and Effective Evaluation at HSIs), is a six-year investment that will position UTEP to provide the first full portrait of the effectiveness of all grants funded by the NSF HSI program.

Released: 27-Sep-2023 12:50 PM EDT
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Released: 26-Sep-2023 3:05 PM EDT
FSU graduate claims Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
Florida State University

By: Mark Blackwell Thomas | Published: September 26, 2023 | 12:19 pm | SHARE: A Florida State University graduate whose fiction writing draws from his experience as an immigrant from Nigeria has earned the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, one of the most prestigious awards in American literature. 

Newswise: New study finds disparities among management of pediatric chronic asthma
Released: 26-Sep-2023 2:05 PM EDT
New study finds disparities among management of pediatric chronic asthma
University of Pittsburgh

Black children may have more severe asthma episodes than their white counterparts but are less likely to be transported to the hospital by emergency medical services (EMS), according to a new study published in the journal Prehospital Emergency Care by University of Pittsburgh and UPMC researcher-physicians.

Newswise: Black bisexual women in rural areas are at highest risk for suicidal behaviors
Released: 26-Sep-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Black bisexual women in rural areas are at highest risk for suicidal behaviors
Penn State College of Medicine

Penn State College of Medicine researchers said they conducted a “first-of-its-kind study,” revealing how various demographic factors intersect to affect a person’s risk of having suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

   
21-Sep-2023 12:00 PM EDT
Companies may benefit from transparency about racial diversity efforts
American Psychological Association (APA)

Companies that reveal their struggles to increase racial diversity in their workforces are perceived as more trustworthy and committed to diversity than companies that remain silent, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

   
Released: 22-Sep-2023 3:30 PM EDT
Newer diabetes treatments are understudied in Black populations and may be less beneficial
SAGE Publications UK

New research analysing the effects of two drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes indicates a consistent lack of cardiovascular and renal benefits in Black populations.

Released: 21-Sep-2023 9:55 AM EDT
How Racism Shapes Black Motherhood in the U.S.
North Carolina State University

Being a mom is hard. Being a Black mom is especially hard. A new study underscores the ways that being a Black mother in the United States involves navigating aspects of parenthood that are explicitly tied to dealing with anti-Black racism.

Released: 20-Sep-2023 1:30 PM EDT
Study finds firearm injuries increased in gentrified neighborhoods
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Gentrification can have a ripple effect on communities. While it can improve certain conditions in typically low-income areas, rising housing costs can displace residents, causing social disruption and other downstream effects.

Released: 20-Sep-2023 8:05 AM EDT
Two-Thirds of U.S. Adults Receive Parental Support Into Their 40s
North Carolina State University

A new study finds that only a third of adults in the United States did not rely on their parents for some form of material support between their late teens and early 40s.

Released: 19-Sep-2023 10:20 AM EDT
Preschoolers show cultural differences in generosity, competitiveness
Washington State University

In a set of sharing experiments, Spanish-speaking Latino preschoolers were more likely to choose options that would be more generous to others, even over a more equal sharing choice.

Released: 18-Sep-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Firearm Violence Exposure in Black and American Indian/Alaska Native Communities Linked to Poorer Health
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Indirect and direct exposure to firearm violence is harmful to mental and physical health, according to a Rutgers study

Released: 18-Sep-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Incarceration rates, falling in every US state, drive significant shifts in risk of prison for marginalized groups
University of Wisconsin–Madison

The risk of incarceration for Black men in the United States was cut nearly in half between 1999 and 2019, according to a new study that assesses the impact of falling rates of imprisonment in each of the 50 states.

15-Sep-2023 4:40 PM EDT
Study: Admissions Policies that Consider Grades and Test Scores in Context of Available Opportunities Are Linked to College Success
American Educational Research Association (AERA)

Indicators of high school grades and standardized test scores that take into account the levels of school, neighborhood, and family resources available to students are strongly associated with those students’ success in college, according to new research published today.

Released: 18-Sep-2023 7:45 AM EDT
Johns Hopkins Professors Join Civil Rights Leaders and Social Justice Advocates to Discuss Policy Innovations to Protect the Lives of Black Women and Girls in the U.S.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Bloomberg Assistant Professor of American Health in the Department of Mental Health Tiara Willie and Associate Professor and Associate Director of the PhD and Postdoctoral programs at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Kamila Alexander will join U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and U.S. Representative Bonnie Watson-Coleman (D-NJ) on September 20, 2023, at 6 p.m. in the Grand Hyatt, Washington, D.C., and on livestream for a discussion about policy innovations to protect the lives of Black women and girls in the U.S.

Newswise: Study Finds Spiritual Coping Behaviors May Be Key To Enhanced Trauma Recovery of Black Men Who Survive Firearm Injury
Released: 14-Sep-2023 3:30 PM EDT
Study Finds Spiritual Coping Behaviors May Be Key To Enhanced Trauma Recovery of Black Men Who Survive Firearm Injury
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

High rates of firearm injury among urban Black men in the U.S. can lead to long physical and psychological recovery times, worsened by limited access to mental health services.

Newswise: Today’s Los Alamos employees play Manhattan Project ‘Labbies’ in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’
Released: 14-Sep-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Today’s Los Alamos employees play Manhattan Project ‘Labbies’ in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’
Los Alamos National Laboratory

On various sets around New Mexico in 2022, Los Alamos National Laboratory employees talked science and bumped fists with celebrities.

Released: 14-Sep-2023 11:00 AM EDT
Members of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses support efforts to promote racial equity
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

More than 90% of the active members of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) believe the organization should pursue racial equity work, and many have specific suggestions for a strategic plan.

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Released: 11-Sep-2023 10:15 AM EDT
Traineeships Aim to Boost Inclusion, Support Minorities in Nuclear Physics
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Ambar Rodriguez-Alicea wants to explore the very basics of matter and the universe as we know it. As the aspiring physicist from Puerto Rico puts it, “I want a job that forces me to keep learning until the end.”



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