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Fewer americans tying the knot, survey shows

(HealthDay) -- That shiny band of gold may be losing its luster: A new government report shows more Americans are either avoiding marriage or marrying much later in life than their parents' generation did.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Medical mystery endures: Black babies at twice risk of whites for death, study indicates

African-American women are significantly more likely to lose a baby in the first year of life than white women, in an enduring medical mystery. It exists at all income and education levels, but is widest among more affluent, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Breast cancer diagnostic delay depends more on race than insurance

Race and ethnicity appeared to affect diagnostic delay more than insurance status for women with breast abnormalities, as revealed by data presented at the Third American Association for Cancer Research Conference on The ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Young Black women at increased risk of self-harm, study shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Young, Black women are significantly more likely to self-harm than people from other ethnic groups, according to new research.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Black patients, women miss out on strongest medications for chronic pain

Black patients are prescribed fewer pain medications than whites and few women receive medications strong enough to manage their chronic pain, according to a study in the August issue of Journal of Pain.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Researchers find increased dairy intake reduces risk of uterine fibroids in black women

Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers at the Slone Epidemiology Center found that black women with high intake of dairy products have a reduced incidence of uterine leiomyomata (fibroids). This report, based ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chubby hubby is common, but ethnicity matters

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study helps untangle how marriage, gender and ethnicity are related to body weight. The study of almost 8,000 men and women will be published in the journal Obesity.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study: Younger black women more likely to have regular doctor, feel cared for

(PhysOrg.com) -- Younger black women are more likely to have a regular doctor -- and are more likely to feel cared for by that doctor -- than younger white women and women of other ethnic groups, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Marriage, family on the decline for highly educated black women

Fewer black women with postgraduate degrees are getting married and having children, according to research to be presented at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Risk of aggressive breast cancer subtype three times higher for black women

Lifestyle, age and weight have all been considered as risk factors for breast cancer. Now a study published in the open access journal Breast Cancer Research has found that even taking these factors into consideration, black ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Psychological headwind keeps women, minorities from sprinting ahead of their peers, study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Let's say a white student and a black student both score 1020 on their SATs. They're performing right around the national average, so based on their scores it stands to reason they're both typical students ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Black women with uterine cancers more likely to die than white patients

Black women with cancers of the uterus are less likely to survive the disease than white women, and relatively little progress has been made over the past two decades to narrow this racial difference. That is the conclusion ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Xenophobia, for men only

Very few people fear dandelions. Or even dangerous things - like Hummers. We may object to outsized automobiles on principle, but the mere sight of them doesn't make us tremble and sweat and run away. On the other hand, even ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Black women in the U.S. appear to be shrinking, data show

Call her The Incredible Shrinking African-American Woman. In an age when the adult populations of most industrialized nations have grown significantly taller, the average height of black women in the U.S. has been receding, ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 26, 2008 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1