Dorothy Farrar Edwards is helping lead UW-Madison’s participation in the nationwide All of Us Research Program, an effort to compile the largest representative medical database ever to accelerate research and improve health....
Trials of vaccines and treatments have not included enough female participants. Now that scientists are exploring possible cures, the need to enroll women is greater than ever....
Genetics and medical studies have largely over-represented people of white, European descent, making the lack of diversity one of the biggest challenges to the potential advancement of health research....
The U.S. scientific community is slowly chipping away at the lack of diversity seen in medical research, including through programs such as "All of Us", but it still has a long way to go. ...
The All of Us Research Program run by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recruited 143,000 participants who have already taken surveys and visited a clinic to give blood and urine samples. Another 87,000 have at least registered for the study....
South central Wisconsin's Latinx population is young and rapidly growing, according to Nuestra Comunidad, Nuestro Futuro, a new report released by the Carbone Cancer Center's Cancer Health Disparities Initiative (CHDI)....
The failure to include racially and ethnically diverse populations in genetic research both hampers our ability to understand human health and disease and exacerbates long-standing disparities in health. Research programs like "All of Us" aim to increase diversity in health research....
In order for everyone to benefit from sequencing the human genome, genetic studies must be conducted in people of all ethnicities — as well as all genders, ages, incomes, and sexual orientations. Research programs like All of Us aim to achieve this goal by working to represent the rich diversity of the United States....
The American Association on Health and Disability (AAHD) is calling on people with disabilities to learn more about the All of Us Research Program. AAHD has issued this Call to Action to highlight the importance and impact that All of Us can have on the disability community....
For anyone, going to the doctor can be an uncomfortable and anxiety-fueled experience that's easy to put off. But for the LGBTQ population, the visit can cause even more stress....