Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A cross-sectional study of more than 70,000 Asian Americans has found that the prevalence of obesity in Asian American subgroups varies substantially. These findings have important implications for directing and adapting obesity...
American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) were found to practice few skin cancer prevention behaviors, according to a research letter published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. In the United States, more than 9 million residents are part of AIAN...
Aim: This study aimed to explore the thoughts and feelings of Asian American nursing students regarding Anti-Asian racism that they might anticipate or experience during their clinical training. Background: Asian Americans have long been viewed as perpetual foreigners...
Before she began medical school, Fornati Bedell, M.D., M.H.D., studied public health at Johns Hopkins University. She fondly recalls her first job. “I’d go around to barber shops, churches, all over Baltimore,” she said, “to talk to folks about prostate cancer and...
The constant, rapid conversations of mixed Vietnamese and English create a comforting hum in my parents’ home. “Lấy rác ra!” my mom would say to my brother. “Rồi tưới cây nữa. Hear that?”“Dạ. OK,” my brother would respond, en route to our backyard to take out the...
