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...Just as important, science is working to develop tests that are more precise than the fallible feel method or even the PSA reading. Ideally, once a blood test reveals elevated antigens, it could also spot particular markers for cancers that are aggressive enough to be deadly and distinguish them from markers for cancers that are tamer...
...first large-scale study to document the extent of the race gap in heart disease, researchers report that one in 100 black adults develop heart failure in their 30s and 40s - a rate 20 times higher than that of similarly aged white men and women. In fact, the heart failure rate among young black adults was more like that of white men and women in their 50s and 60s. "What these data point out is that it's important to recognize that disease patterns differ in different populations," says Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, one of the study's authors...
...Although young black adults in the study were more likely than whites to have risk factors for heart disease - on average, the baseline blood pressure of blacks who went on to develop heart disease was 10 mm higher than that of whites - Bibbins-Domingo and her co-investigators also showed that this population did not get appropriate medical treatment for their conditions, if any at all. At the beginning of the study, 75% of black participants with hypertension were not taking medication for their condition; 10 years later, 57% still remained untreated. (The study did not provide a corresponding figure...
...probably a combination of all of those factors that prevents adequate treatment of hypertension in the black community, and the end result is that African Americans are more likely to develop further risk factors for heart disease, none of which are being treated aggressively enough to protect this population from early illness. "Our ability to intervene early and appropriately is limited," says Yancy. "That is something that we need to change because I think it's a crisis." Studies like this one that document the problem could be an important first step in sounding the alarm...
According to Director of Undergraduate Studies Jeffrey A. Miron, the Economics department, Harvard’s largest, has no plans to develop any new Gen Ed classes. Instead, they are hoping to get two departmental classes approved. This approach is not uncommon across departments...