This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) released new HIV incidence data. The CDC released its 2007 HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report and the NYC DOHMH released its semiannual HIV Epidemiology & Fields Services report.
The surveillance data from the CDC indicate that among people newly diagnosed with HIV or AIDS in 2007, men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted Read the rest of this entry »

Provisions In Stimulus Draws Concern About Care For Women, Minorities
) President Obama is expected to sign today includes $1.1 billion in funding for research to compare the effectiveness of different treatments for the same illness, a measure critics say could place the government in the middle of the physician-patient relationship and compromise treatment for women and minorities, the
reports. The
reports that the provision will allow researchers Read the rest of this entry »

BACKGROUND: Prepared by the University of California, San
Francisco Center for the Health Professions, the Allied Health Workforce
Analysis — Los Angeles report assesses the
region’s future health care landscape and its “allied
health workforce” —
professionals who provide a range of diagnostic, technical, therapeutic
direct patient care services and support services. Many of the health
work Read the rest of this entry »

FRIDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) — Minority women, especially black women, have more distrust of the medical system, which leads to delays in screening for breast cancer, new research shows.
Almost half of all women agreed that they had “sometimes been deceived or misled by health-care organizations.” Eighteen percent strongly agreed with the statement.
On another gauge of mistrust, 39 percent of black women agreed that “health-care organizations Read the rest of this entry »

TUESDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) — Attending medical schools with high levels of racial and ethnic diversity may better prepare white medical students to care for minority patients, U.S. researchers say.
The study analyzed data from a Web-based survey of 20,112 graduating medical students from 118 medical schools. It found that white students at medical schools with the highest quintile (one-fifth) for student body racial and ethnic diversity, Read the rest of this entry »

FRIDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) — Minority women, especially black women, have more distrust of the medical system, which leads to delays in screening for breast cancer, new research shows.
Almost half of all women agreed that they had “sometimes been deceived or misled by health-care organizations.” Eighteen percent strongly agreed with the statement.
On another gauge of mistrust, 39 percent of black women agreed that “health-care organizations Read the rest of this entry »