September 21, 2022 - For Your Health News

Genomic Testing Can Identify African American Prostate Cancer Patients Who Have High-risk Disease

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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain African American men tend to be diagnosed more frequently with prostate cancer and have higher mortality rates than men of other races and ethnicities. Despite this […]

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Covid Still Kills, but the Demographics of Its Victims Are Shifting

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Covid has been among the top three causes of death in California for much of the pandemic. It dropped to 14th in the spring before rising in rank again this

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Stigma, Discrimination, and Mental Health Outcomes Among Transgender Women With Diagnosed HIV Infection in the United States, 2015-2018

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Objective: Transgender women with diagnosed HIV experience social and structural factors that could negatively affect their overall health and HIV-related health outcomes. We describe estimates from the Centers for Disease

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The Black Women’s Health Imperative Observes National Black Women’s Equal Pay Day While Reflecting on the Barriers Black Women Still Face

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) recognizes National Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. This year, the day is observed more than one month

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Transgender Health Care Becomes Target for Wide GOP-Led Rollback

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For about a week in May, Alabama had the harshest anti-transgender law in the US. Any doctor that prescribed puberty blockers or hormone therapy to people under the age of

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