Women’s Health
Color or money?: The impact of socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity on breast cancer mortality
Background:
Although the incidence of breast cancer is highest in White women, Black women die at a higher rate. Our aim was to comp...
UIC receives $3.1 million to provide reproductive health care to underserved teens
Kelly Rosenberger, associate professor of nursing, will lead the ENRICH mobile health care program for teens.
The College of Nursing at the Univer...
New Abortion Laws Jeopardize Cancer Treatment for Pregnant Patients
As abortion bans go into effect across a contiguous swath of the South, cancer physicians are wrestling with how new state laws will influence thei...
Op-Ed: Pharma's lack of diversity hurts women, people of color
If you’re a woman or person of color, your health is being hurt by a lack of diversity in healthcare.
I suddenly realized that a few years ago at a...
Maternal Mortality Rates Are Too High, Especially for BIPOC Women
It’s 2022 and absolutely no one should be dying while pregnant, during childbirth, or immediately afterward.
And yet, in the United States, that is...
One hundred years of solitude—underrepresentation of Indigenous and minority groups in diabetes trials
100 years after the discovery of insulin in Toronto, Indigenous people in Canada face the highest risk of developing diabetes, but are not well rep...
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