Cancer mortality remains significantly elevated among African Americans. Between 2000 and 2010, overall mortality from cancer decreased faster among African American women and men than among Caucasians. If current trends continue, racial disparities in cancer outcomes are expected to narrow further and might disappear over time.
Culture
Teachers are likely to interpret students' misbehavior differently depending on the student's race, according to new research findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Racial differences in school discipline are widely known, and black students across the United States are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled, according to Stanford researchers.
Yet the psychological processes that contribute to those differences have not been clear -- until now.
Invasive pests known as spruce bark beetles have been attacking Alaskan forests for decades, killing more than 1 million acres of forest on the Kenai Peninsula in southern Alaska for more than 25 years. Beyond environmental concerns regarding the millions of dead trees, or "beetle kill" trees, inhabitants of the peninsula and surrounding areas are faced with problems including dangerous falling trees, high wildfire risks, loss of scenic views and increased soil erosion.
A healthy and active old age is a reality for many Europeans and is a genuine possibility for many more, despite the 2008 economic crash and years of austerity measures, according to a new United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and European Commission (EC) report, produced at the University of Southampton.
However, countries such as Greece and Latvia have declined in active ageing capacity during the four years from 2008 to 2012.
Young offenders in late Victorian times were much less likely to go on to commit other crimes after serving a sentence in an institution than their counterparts today, new research shows.
A study of the lives of 500 children committed to reformatory or industrial schools over a century ago showed that only 22% re-offended during the rest of their lives after their release. This compares with today's figure of 73% of young people re-offending within a year after release from custody.
A survey of California doctors found that a majority of the 525 who responded believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA, nee Obamacare) will steer the country's health care in the right direction.
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can develop symptoms before 2 years of age and usually can be diagnosed by 3 years of age; early identification of ASD is associated with improved long-term developmental outcomes. In a new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers assessed how healthcare providers respond to parents' concerns about their child's early development, as well as how that response affected the timeliness of ASD diagnosis.
The twin towers, Madrid, July 7, Charlie Hebdo… the list of terrorist political acts and their victims feels endless. When people are killed and lives threatened for political motivations, demands for immediate reprisals and military counter-measures usually follow suit.
Military force and policing is our default tactic – and talking to terrorists, by contrast, feels counter-intuitive. After all, surely talking to murderers, criminals and fanatics will only legitimise their aims and tactics.
Drug users who do not benefit from conventional treatments for heroin addiction should be able to access the drug through the health system, urges a Canadian expert in The BMJ today.
Standard treatments for heroin drug addiction include detoxification, abstinence programmes and methadone maintenance, but there is a subgroup of patients for whom these do not work.
When Seattle man, Jason Padgett, walked into a bar for a drink a few years ago, he was an ordinary man with seemingly average intelligence leading an unremarkable life. He worked contentedly in his father's furniture shop and had never done well academically or ever cared to do so. On exiting the bar that night, he was viciously mugged, hit on the head and knocked out. After a hospital evaluation for a concussion, he was sent him home with typical instructions. When he awoke the next morning, he noticed something both disturbing and enthralling.
Monica Eaton-Cardone, founder and CIO of Global Risk Technologies, most known for Chargebacks911, says women are at risk for getting pushed out of an ever-increasing amount of STEM jobs due to ong-standing gender bias.
Though some estimates are that 80 percent of jobs next decade will require technology skills(1), the chance for a future generation of women to occupy and excel in these positions is being impeded by social perceptions that STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) are “male industries”, says Eaton-Cardone.
Publicly-funded cosmetic surgery was not the intent of nationalized health care but it is certain to happen; in the United States the Affordable Care Act will mean gender modification surgery for prisoners and in the UK and Australia it has meant taxpayer-funded labiaplasties.
While a debate was raging between scientists and government regulators on how best to explain to patients the risks of participating in clinical research studies that compare standardized treatments, a team of bioethicists boldly went where no experts had gone before -- to the public.
What the respondents said surprised them: Keep it simple, but always ask permission, even when the research only involves gathering data from anonymized medical records.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) simultaneously forced young people to have health insurance and then forced insurance companies to allow them to stay on their parental policies until age 26 but the young people least likely to have it before still don't, according to a paper in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
In 2012, PennFuture issued a report identifying fossil fuel tax credits in Pennsylvania totaling $2.9 billion, at the time roughly 10 percent of the state budget.
The environmental lobbying group has updated that report and the current dollar amount of tax incentives for the highly-profitable, mature fossil fuel industry continues to balloon at a time when the state faces a $1.5 billion budget shortfall and investment in emerging renewable energy industries are at fractional levels.
The new Senate looks to be no better than when Democrats were in charge, they note.