27 Sep This week in HIV research: The reality of disparity
The clinical community has done a better job in recent years of acknowledging the massive array of factors that result in huge HIV-related disparities between communities....
Health Equity
26 Sep NIH seeks to enroll one million individuals in genetic counseling to improve health research diversity
Medical research has had a long history of disproportionately benefiting wealthier countries and white people, rather than ethnic minorities. The "All of Us" Research Program aims to promote diverse and inclusive health research....
19 Sep Racial disparities found among Wisconsin patients in medical systems report
Low vaccination rates in black and American Indian children, poor control of diabetes in Latinos, and decreased screening for cancer and depression in people on Medicaid or without insurance are among the health disparities found in a new Wisconsin report....
26 Aug Community engagement is key to clinical trial recruitment and diversity
Clinical trials in the United States have been plagued for years by two well-known problems: They don’t recruit enough people and they fail to reflect the diversity of our nation....
15 Aug Leaders of NIH’s All of Us Research Program recap progress and next steps
The All of Us Research Program at the National Institutes of Health has made strong progress in its efforts to advance precision medicine, according to program leadership in a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine....
28 Jul Genetic counselors of color tackle racial, ethnic disparities in health care
Genetic counseling is one of several health care fields that suffers from a lack of diversity among its professional ranks....
26 Jul Mistrust and lack of genetic diversity slow gains in precision medicine
While the goal of precision medicine is to help everybody, the current research available has a major flaw. It's largely based on the genes of people who are predominantly of white and European descent. The "All of Us" Research Program is an effort to increase diversity in health research....
22 Jul Does precision medicine have a minority problem?
In spite of its promise and success, personalized medicine could inadvertently create new disparities. This is due to the fact that almost 80% of individuals who have contributed DNA to genomics research are Caucasian....
28 Jun Historic All of Us project creating largest health database ever
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....
30 May Half of H.I.V. patients are women. Most research subjects are men.
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....