HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG

October 23, 2008

links for 2008-10-23

• A Tale of Three Cities: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Premature Mortality in the District of Columbia
  Violent deaths among blacks in the nation’s capital have become a public health epidemic, with murder ranking as the leading cause of years of potential life lost for black men in D.C., according to a study released today by Public Citizen.
• Pumped up findings: Do publishing practices distort science?
  PloS Medicine -- an open-access journal -- published an essay suggesting that current publication methods depict a false portrayal of scientific progress through pumped up results.
• Breast cancer disparities growing among Black women in St. Louis
  The most recent breast cancer statistics for the St. Louis area tell two different tales. While there is a lot of good news in the numbers; there is some bad news as well n when looking at all races combined we see that deaths from breast cancer are higher for the city than for both the state and the US. And driving much of these numbers seems to be a growing disparity between African American women and white women.