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NIH Holds Inaugural Seminar on American Rural Health
One in 5 Americans live in rural America and face health disparities every day due to higher rates of poverty and less access to health care.
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Oliver Wilson, Ph.D.
Physical activity (PA) offers many benefits to breast cancer (BC) survivors, including reduced risk of recurrence and BC specific and all-cause mortality. However, there are significant disparities in...
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Abhinav Saurabh, Ph.D.
Existing health disparities are at least partially rooted in the impact of experiences of chronic psychosocial and environmental stress (cPSES) over the life course and its subsequent effects on human...
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Kristen Hamilton-Moseley, Ph.D.
Pervasive racial discrimination in the United States underlies health disparities, with the greatest burden on Black individuals. A strong evidence base indicates that directly experiencing...
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Maryam Hashemian, M.D., Ph.D.
Preclinical heart failure is an early stage characterized by risk factors and/or subtle cardiac structural or functional abnormalities without clinical symptoms. This is the optimal time to enhance...
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NIH and Prostate Cancer Foundation launch large study on aggressive prostate cancer in African American men
The largest coordinated research effort to study biological and non-biological factors associated with higher burden and aggressive prostate cancer in African American men has begun. The $26.5 million...
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Building Infrastructure to Identify and Address Health Disparities
NIMHD’s Conversations with Researchers Engaging With Communities February is Black History Month. As we celebrate the significant contributions to America—from its history through present day and...