Disparities

Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer

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Jasmine Souers was 25 when she noticed a discharge from her nipples. Concerned, she went to get it checked out. At first, her doctors dismissed the possibility of breast cancer, saying, she’s “too young.” She didn’t feel any lumps. A mammogram — a type of breast X-ray — and an ultrasound — a scan that … Read more

Comments flood in as FCC seeks to fight digital discrimination and broadband disparities 

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Analysis Last year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it wanted to create rules to combat digital discrimination and digital redlining. The agency opened up a comments period for the public to weigh in on its plans, and now the opinions are flooding in.  Digital discrimination, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation notes, is when … Read more

A Young Neurologist Mentors Black Women, Fights Disparities

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Eseosa Ighodaro, MD, PhD, is a neurologist busy tackling health disparities now. But she kept her first experiments on ice at home. “I used to hide experiments in the freezer so my mom couldn’t see them,” she says. “I’d mix orange juice, pepper, and salt to see if I could create a chemical reaction. Afterwards, … Read more

U.S. Parents Face Big Disparities in Access to Autism Care Services

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By Amy Norton  HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Jan. 30, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Autism services are harder to find in many of the places where Black, Hispanic and Native American families live, new research shows. It’s known that there are racial disparities in U.S. families’ receipt of autism services — ranging from diagnosis and behavioral therapy … Read more

How Racial Disparities Affect Outcomes

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Over the past 2 decades, treatment options for multiple myeloma have increased dramatically. That’s led to an uptick in survival rates. While there’s still no cure for this blood cancer, more than 90% of those who have it respond to treatment. Many now live for 10 years or longer with the disease.   Despite these encouraging … Read more

Racial Disparities in Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

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As a breast oncologist with Yale Medicine, Eric Winer, MD, is on a mission to lessen racial disparities in breast cancer. And there’s one “entirely unacceptable” statistic he can’t get off his mind.  “If you’re a Black American woman and you’re 20 years old, you have literally twice the chance of dying of breast cancer … Read more