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From:Contemporary Long Term Care (Vol. 23, Issue 6)Redmond, Wa.-based Aegis Assisted Living has named ten people to serve on an advisory board for Aegis Garden, the company's newest California venture. Unique in its programming and design, the new community will focus...
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From:Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: Carolee. Polek, Thomas. Hardie Objective: Cancer can evoke long-held cultural beliefs which either facilitate or impede efforts to expand the health literacy of families. Among these beliefs is fatalism which...
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From:Clinical Psychiatry News (Vol. 33, Issue 3)More than three-fourths of Asian Pacific American lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have experienced discrimination based on their sexual orientation, according to a study by the National Gay and...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 125, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe U.S. Asian population consists of many culturally and geographically diverse ethnic subgroups. In nationally representative population-based samples, these groups often are lumped together in race categories such as...
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From:Social Work (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt is almost taken for granted that social relationships benefit mental health, yet these relationships may not always be protective. This study examines how the support and strains individuals derive from family and...
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From:Clinical Psychiatry News (Vol. 48, Issue 7)On first glance, the age-adjusted rate of suicide for Asian and Pacific Islander populations living in the United States looks comparatively low. Over the past 2 decades in the United States, for example, the overall...
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From:Asian American Policy Review (Vol. 30) Peer-ReviewedIn 1985, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (precursor to today's US Department of Health and Human Services), Margaret Heckler, commissioned a ground-breaking study on minority health. It was the first...
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From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week2021 JUN 5 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Investigators publish new report on Cancer. According to news reporting originating from Columbus, Ohio, by NewsRx...
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From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week2022 MAY 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- New research on chronic hepatitis B virus is the subject of a new report. According to news reporting originating from...
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From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week2019 APR 13 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Current study results on Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases and Conditions - Obesity have been published. According to...
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From:Journal of Family Practice (Vol. 71, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMelanoma occurs less frequently in individuals with darker skin types than in those with lighter skin types but is associated with higher rates of morbidity and mortality in this patient population. (1-7) In the cases...
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From:The Professional Counselor (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFollowing the outbreak of COVID-19, reports of discrimination and violence against Asians and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) have increased substantially. The present article offers a timely...
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From:Health Services Research (Vol. 54, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective: To examine experiences of racial discrimination among Asian Americans, which broadly contribute to poor health outcomes. Data Source and Study Design: Data come from a nationally representative,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedObjective Classic features of type 1 and type 2 diabetes may not apply in Asian Americans, due to shared absence of common HLA DR-DQ genotype, low prevalence of positive anti-islet antibodies and low BMI in both...
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From:Science (Vol. 297, Issue 5586) Peer-ReviewedA jury last week found a scientist at the University of California (UC), Davis, not guilty of stealing vials of a protein gel used in ophthalmological research. More serious allegations of economic espionage had already...
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From:Oncology Nursing Forum (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBreast cancer is the leading type of cancer in Asian Americans, one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States (American Cancer Society, 2011). A need exists to investigate outcomes among Asian American...
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From:Asian American Policy Review (Vol. 28) Peer-ReviewedMental illness is among the most serious--and under-addressed--public health issues in the United States. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, (1) approximately 1 in 6 Americans live with some form of...
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From:Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedUsing a computer-based text analysis of 218 Asian Americans' writing samples, the authors found that enculturation as well as use of negative emotion and positive emotion words were associated with depressive symptoms....
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From:BMC Medical Education (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Asian Americans (AsAm) are a rapidly growing population in the U.S. With this growing population, U.S. healthcare providers must be equipped to provide culturally competent care for AsAm patients. This...
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From:BMC Nephrology (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground There is a paucity of specific data on early stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) among Asian Americans (AAs). The objective of this study was to examine the independent association of Asian race/ethnicity...