Health Disparity

Sikander Ailawadhi, MD, discusses the importance of addressing health care disparities in multiple myeloma.

Living in counties with high jail incarceration inequities between Black and white individuals was tied to increased severe maternal morbidity risk, especially for Black and Hispanic women, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Black women tend to prefer to be cared for by Black obstetric providers during pregnancy due to past experiences of discrimination and racism, according to a presenter at The Pregnancy Meeting.

WASHINGTON — Among adults with asthma living in Chicago, poorly controlled asthma was linked to Black race and a low education level, according to data presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

U.S. policies built around racism and persistent discrimination impact modern-day breast cancer outcomes, with worse outcomes for women living in historically redlined areas, according to study findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Among women with infertility who used clomiphene citrate and/or gonadotropins, 65.4% did not access IVF even though the technology was available without cost, according to results of a cohort study conducted in France.

As a young child, Coral Olazagasti, MD, participated in church community service with her mother in Puerto Rico. Fast forward years later where she continued to feed that passion by joining community medical mission trips in Guatemala and Haiti.

Black women as young as 24 years diagnosed with hypertension may have up to a threefold greater risk for stroke at midlife vs. women without hypertension, researchers reported.

Among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for a COPD exacerbation, the risk for mortality within 1 year was higher in white patients vs. Black or Hispanic patients, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

World Cancer Day will be observed Feb. 4.