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Kidney transplants: does ethnicity affect patients' chances?
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Ethnicity and health outcomes
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Breast Cancer: Finding the Roots of Disparities
Female breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among all races, yet mortality rates differ between ethnicities and early detection numbers falter among minorities. A challenging yet rewarding specialty, oncology nursing puts nurses against such inequalities.
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Family Support in the Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes Among Hispanics
Diabetes is one of the most persistent health disparities affecting Hispanic communities. Fortunately, Hispanic patients rarely face the disease alone, bolstered by their culture of strong family support.
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Make an EMPaCT
Enabling Minority Participation in Clinical Trials, or EMPaCT, is the newest initiative to come out of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
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Nurses, Culture and Cancer
Through culturally competent outreach, education, research and patient care, nurses can make a dramatic difference in reducing minority cancer disparities
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Participate in eMAPA Research Study
Eun-Ok Im, PhD, MPH, RN, CNS, FAAN, School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, and her colleagues are conducting a study to explore ethnic differences in midlife women's attitudes toward physical activity.
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Advice for Increasing Minority Cancer Screening Rates: THINK POSITIVE!
A recent study by researchers at St. Louis University School of Medicine suggests that accentuating the positive can make a big difference when it comes to educating African Americans about the importance of cancer screening and early detection.
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Skin Color Contributes to Clinical and Justice Disparities for Black Rape Victims
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing suggests that rape victims with dark skin are less likely to have their physical injuries detected, treated and documented as evidence by the sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) or other health care professionals who examine them.
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A Cause for Celebration
The 10th anniversary of Howard University’s Mary Elizabeth Carnegie Research Conference was a truly special occasion celebrating the past, present and future of leadership in health disparities research
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Bridging the Barriers to Research Careers
By helping talented students of color make the transition from MSN degrees to PhD programs, the federally funded Bridges to the Doctoral Degree initiative is working to increase the number of minority nurse scientists
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Researching With Respect
Nurses conducting research in American Indian communities must learn to be more culturally sensitive to tribes’ unique needs
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Careers in Rural Minority Health
From the Mississippi Delta to remote Indian reservations, rural communities of color are among the most medically underserved in the nation--and the need for more nurses is especially acute
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Sihtoskatowin: “Supporting One Another” to Build Research Capacity
A unique collaborative program in Saskatchewan, Canada, is helping Native nursing students north of the border prepare to become nurse researchers.
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Ethnopharmacology: What Nurses Need to Know
Race, ethnicity and culture can have a significant impact on how patients respond to certain medications--and even on how doctors prescribe them.
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