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In a video exclusive, Healio’s Health Equity Award winner Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil, discusses the importance of a collective, nationwide effort to recognize health care disparities and support disadvantaged populations.

Mediget Teshome, MD, FACS, MPH, has been appointed chief of breast surgery and director of breast health at UCLA Health.

The number of scooter-related injuries in the United States nearly tripled from 2016 to 2020, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Aditya Bardia, MD, has been appointed to multiple leadership roles at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Researchers found no association between Agent Orange exposure and hepatocellular carcinoma among Vietnam veterans, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

A speaker reported that improved differentiation of resistant vs. refractory hypertension is essential in choosing optimal antihypertensive treatment, as the two represent different disease states of elevated blood pressure.

Nearly 20% of deceased patients in a Californian health care system were marked as alive with a serious illness in the electronic health record, resulting in hundreds of unnecessary outreach efforts, according to researchers.

Hospitals that serve a high volume of Black and Hispanic patients are less likely to offer advanced medical equipment and critical services shown to boost the quality and effectiveness of cancer care, study results showed.

Nurse practitioners were no more likely than primary care physicians to prescribe inappropriately to older patients, a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed.

Twelve months of testosterone replacement therapy did not improve metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in a group of older men with hypogonadism, according to a secondary analysis of the T Trials.