Live Science spoke with Alika Maunakea, an Native Hawaiian epigeneticist, about how epigenetics underpins health disparities ...

Ahead of World Stroke Day, Oct. 29, investigators from the Department of Neurology at Cedars-Sinai have new information on stroke-related health disparities. In a study published in the peer-reviewed ...

Nobody listened when I insisted my blood pressure was too high soon after my first son was born. “You people always have ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Socioeconomic disadvantages may explain a proportion of disparities in health care utilization parameters after ...

As a shy undergraduate at Harvard University in the late sixties, Constance Hilliard butted heads with the stodgy chairman of the history department. Convinced that there were untold stories buried in ...

Industrial emissions of carcinogens disproportionately impact certain people and may contribute to cancer disparities. Differences in exposure to industrial emissions of carcinogens may help explain ...

High blood pressure means faster slide into signs of dementia or Alzheimer's, but does not explain the overall disparity between Hispanic/Latino people and non-Hispanic people in dementia risk. People ...

Identifying and addressing disparities among people living with lupus ensures communities with the highest burden of disease, like racial and ethnic minorities, receive equitable opportunities for ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Asthma patients who are black tend to have more severe disease than asthma patients who are white, leading to more asthma control problems, higher rates of emergency ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Differences in IQ may be one reason that lower-income individuals are more likely to die of heart disease than their more affluent counterparts, a study of U.S. men ...