Health Disparity

Vanessa B. Sheppard, PhD, received American Cancer Society’s 2022 Researcher of the Year Award.

Racial and ethnic subtype-specific differences in pathologic complete response rates after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer may partially account for worse survival rates for Black women, according to study data.

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month; in the latest installment of our diversity, equity and inclusion video series with ASGE, Pegah Hosseini-Carroll, MD, proposed strategies for mitigating disparities in CRC screening.

Providers should tailor approaches to hypertension care, including self-care and treatment intensification, to improve hypertension management for patients from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations, according to researchers.

Compared with other people with breast cancer, those with a preexisting severe mental illness were less likely to receive appropriate treatment and more likely to experience delays in receiving treatment, findings in Psycho-Oncology showed.

Left undiagnosed and untreated, obstructive sleep apnea can result in several poor consequences related to health, work and relationships, according to a press release from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, or AASM.

Mailing HPV self-sampling kits to women who are overdue for cervical cancer screening was cost-effective in increasing screening uptake compared with usual care, according to an economic evaluation published in JAMA Network Open.

Edith P. Mitchell, MD, MACP, FCCP, FRCP (London), has been named enterprise vice president for cancer disparities at Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center.

The maternal death rate significantly increased in 2021, with rates among Black people more than double that of their white counterparts, according to data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

Paul L. Douglass, MD, MACC, FSCAI, has long been an advocate for working toward eliminating disparities in CV care and achieving health equity in cardiology.