Category: Minority Health
UW students team up with local community groups to raise hepatitis B awareness among Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and new immigrant groups.
“If you live in a high-poverty area, your risk of early death rises substantially,” one expert said. “In many cases your ZIP code is more important than your genetic code.”
A free half-day workshop on hepatitis B will be held Saturday, Dec. 4th at the Asian Counseling & Referral Services Community Hall on Martin Luther King Jr. Way S.
The workshop’s talks will be given by Dr. Chia Wang, an infectious disease specialist at Virginia Mason Medical Center and Dr. Stephen Chen, a cancer specialist at Polyclinic First Hill.
Hispanics can expect to live to the ripe old age of about 80 years, more than 2 years longer than non-Hispanic whites who’re looking at about 78 years.
Hmong women are four times more likely to die of cervical cancer than are white women. Study highlights lack of data on Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander health.
Event features free health screenings and private consultations with a doctor and healthy food made by local celebrity chefs.
Indian Health Service is responsible for the health care of 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives.
One out of five people in the U.S. infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, doesn’t know it, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. CDC recommends that everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 be tested for HIV at least once as part of their routine health care. People [...]
Surveys show that most of us think everybody deserves safe and effective healthcare. But the same surveys show that most of us don’t realize that that patients from certain racial and ethnic minorities often receive much lower quality care than most Americans. In her column this month, Dr. Lori Whittaker, a family physician and a [...]
In support of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, the Snohomish Health District will offer free HIV testing to Black Americans who might be at risk of HIV infection. These would include individuals who might have had unprotected sex or have injected drugs and shared their injection equipment. Testing will include a private counseling session. Testing [...]
Asian-Pacific Islanders are 16% more likely to die than whites in U.S. hospitals from serious, but treatable complications, according to the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Why this is so is not known but experts speculate that Asian-Pacific Islanders go to hospitals that give lower quality care, may receive poorer quality of care [...]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said today that babies should not be fed infant formula manufactured in China . . . after reports that infant formula in China has been found to be contaminated with a compound called melamine, which . . . can cause kidney disease.
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