Health Disparity

Menopause symptoms substantially impact work life for more than three-quarters of women, highlighting the need for more awareness and implementation of menopause support measures in the workplace, researchers reported in Menopause.

In this Healio video exclusive, Khadijah Breathett, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA, discusses a framework she co-created to better help researchers address bias, social determinants of health and structural racism in CV care.

Use of most contraceptive methods steadily decreased from 2019 to 2022, except for vasectomy, with more advanced practice clinicians and fewer physicians providing new contraceptive prescriptions, researchers reported.

Use of race-neutral vs. race-specific lung function equations led to different interpretations of spirometry findings, especially among Black individuals, according to study results.

Women with breast cancer living in the most vs. the least disadvantaged neighborhoods had higher risks for breast cancer-specific and overall mortality, according to cohort study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Black Maternal Health Week is observed April 11 to 17.

The future of pediatric oncology should place a special emphasis on addressing socioeconomic difficulties that childhood cancer survivors face, according to study data published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Risk for maternal mortality for Black women in the U.S. is double that of white women. Barriers to improving maternal health outcomes for Black women stem from years of structural racism and bias, according to Kimberly Gregory, MD, MPH.

Among hospitalized patients with various pulmonary conditions, living in a low socioeconomic status area heightened the odds for 30-day mortality and readmission, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Only 30% of women with health-related social needs underwent mammography screening for breast cancer in the previous 2 years, according to a newly released CDC Vital Signs report.