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Hispanics With Clogged Arteries At Greatest Risk Of Stroke, Heart Attack, Study Shows
March 19, 2008 — Hispanics who have even a small amount of plaque build-up in the neck artery that supplies blood to the brain are up to four times more likely to suffer or die from a stroke or heart attack than ... > full story -
Family Communication Impacts Attitude About Genetic Counseling/testing For Breast Cancer
March 18, 2008 — Whether or not relatives talk about the family's history of cancer significantly impacts attitudes and knowledge about genetic counseling and testing for those at moderate risk of developing breast ... > full story -
Disease Leads To Vision Loss More Often In Blacks, Study Shows
March 10, 2008 — Black people are more likely to lose vision as a result of idiopathic intracranial hypertension, or increased pressure in the brain, according to a new study. The cause of idiopathic intracranial ... > full story -
Daytime Dozing Linked To Increased Stroke Risk In Elderly
February 21, 2008 — Regular daytime dozing forewarns of a significantly increased risk of stroke in older Americans, researchers report. Stroke risk was two- to four-fold greater in those with moderate dozing. This ... > full story -
Television Shows Can Affect Racial Judgments
February 20, 2008 — Viewers can be influenced by exposure to racial bias in the media, even without realizing it. The research indicates that stereotype-based processing may occur based on media exposure, even when at a ... > full story -
Discrimination Against Blacks Linked To Dehumanization, Study Finds
February 7, 2008 — Crude historical depictions of African Americans as ape-like may have disappeared from mainstream US culture, but research presented in a new paper by psychologists at Stanford, Pennsylvania State ... > full story -
Trust Between Doctors And Patients Is Culprit In Efforts To Cross Racial Divide In Medical Research
January 14, 2008 — More than three decades after the shutdown of the notorious Tuskegee study, a team of Johns Hopkins physicians has found that Tuskegee's legacy of blacks' mistrust of physicians and deep-seated fear ... > full story -
Voter I.D. Requirements Reduce Political Participation, Study Finds
January 7, 2008 — A new report released by Brown University shows that requiring voters to present identification at the polls leads to lower levels of political participation. The research also suggests that voter ... > full story -
Student Facebook, MySpace Use Predicted By Race, Ethnicity, Education
November 19, 2007 — A study finds student use of social network sites such as Facebook and MySpace can be predicted by race, ethnicity and parent education, challenging popular notions of the democratic nature of online ... > full story -
Older Children More Likely To Develop Vision Disorders, Study Suggests
November 15, 2007 — In a study of more than 6,000 Los Angeles-area children -- the largest study of its kind -- researchers found that both strabismus (commonly known as cross-eyed or wall-eyed) and amblyopia (often ... > full story
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