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Analysis Reveals Why Asthma Inhalers Fail Minority Children

The largest-ever whole-genome sequencing study of drug response in minority children has revealed new clues about why the front-line asthma drug albuterol does not work as well for African-American and Puerto Rican children as it does for European American or Mexican children. Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease in the world, according to World […]

Kids With Asthma

R.I. Foundation Offers $28 M for Work on Disparities

The Rhode Island Foundation is offering $2.8 million in grants to nonprofit organizations to address heath disparities in communities around the state. The deadline to apply is April 2. “The foundation will give priority to proposals that bring together clinical organizations, community-based organizations and residents to improve the health of communities with high rates of illness, chronic […]

Rhode Island Foundation

2-Year-Old Has Rare ‘Vanishing Bone’ Disease

An Ottawa County boy is battling a disease so rare, less than 300 cases have been reported in the entire world. Two-year-old Leo Aguillon went to the doctor for pneumonia a couple weeks ago, but a chest x-ray and CT scan showed the unimaginable: half of the bones in his chest were gone. “They found […]

Vanishing Bone Disease

Restricting Calories May Offer Benefits for Elderly

One of the first studies to explore the effects of calorie restriction on humans showed that cutting caloric intake by 15 percent for two years slowed aging and metabolism and protected against age-related disease. The study, which appears March 22 in the journal Cell Metabolism, found that calorie restriction decreased systemic oxidative stress, which has been […]

Counting Calories

Report: Disparities Closing Because Whites Are Sicker

Although racial disparities in cardiovascular health still exist, the divide between blacks and whites has narrowed because of worsening health among whites, not improvements among blacks, according to research published in Annals of Internal Medicine. “Trends in cardiovascular disparities are poorly understood, even as diversity increases in the United States,” Arleen F. Brown, MD, PhD, from the University […]

Cardiovascular Health

Interior Secretary Tells Tribal Leaders He Will Fight Opioids

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has told tribal leaders in the Phoenix area that federal law enforcement will work with them to fight distribution of opioid drugs in Indian country. Zinke said law enforcement officers from the Bureau of Land Management and the Drug Enforcement Administration can help tribal police fight the […]

Native American Opioid Issues

New Heart Protocol Reduces Gender Disparities

A four-step protocol for the most severe type of heart attack, if followed, not only can improve outcomes and reduce mortality rates, but also put an end to gender disparities in health care. Cardiovascular disease is the foremost cause of death in women. STEMI (ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction), in which one of the heart’s major arteries that supplies […]

Heart Protocols

Veganism on the Rise Among African-Americans

Food is a key part of any culture. Take the USA: Could there be a more potent symbol of all things Americana than BBQ? For many, to go against this national pastime amounts to a form of treason. Which is why it should cause little surprise to learn that a new culture has begun to […]

African American Vegans

Couples Sue Over Damage to Eggs at Fertility Clinic

CLEVELAND — Two fertility clinics across the country from each other experienced equipment failures on the same day that may have damaged hundreds of frozen eggs and embryos, something that a fertility expert called a stunning coincidence and that is already producing lawsuits from crestfallen couples. Lawyers for Amber and Elliott Ash, of the Cleveland […]

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CDC Unsure of Why a Lung Disease Kills Dentists

Seven of the patients were dead, and two more were dying of a rare chronic, progressive lung disease that can be treated but not cured. It’s estimated that about 200,000 people in the United States have Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) at any one time. But the common denominator of a small group of patients at […]

Investigator Finds Flaws in HIV tests at VA Center

MIAMI — At least eight military veterans who were tested for HIV at the Miami VA Medical Center received a different result when they were screened for a second time by an outside lab — a discrepancy discovered only after an employee at the Miami facility complained to outside agencies and the White House that […]

Shooter Was Kicked Out of PTSD Program

California official confirms Yountville shooter, Army veteran Albert Wong, was kicked out of a PTSD treatment program at the same facility that week. Wong reportedly snuck back into the facility during a going-away party of two employees of The Pathway Home program at Yountville Veterans Home, a California run facility (not VA run) with some […]

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