That mistrust has also resulted, Clinton said, into too little participation by African Americans in modern medical studies.
On the one hand, studies show that Americans are wary of companies having access to their personal information.
Studies show most Americans think their advisor acts solely in their interest.
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Mark Krikorian, the executive director for the Center for Immigration Studies, says Americans should keep watch on the Pentagon to make sure it doesn't go beyond the current program.
As the food writer Jane Black has observed, studies show that Americans do not lack information and opportunity to eat more sensibly - they just prefer the taste and convenience of junk food.
If you believe results from the American Time Use Survey, done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other studies, plenty of Americans have faulty impressions of how they spend time in our "too-rushed-to-breathe" world.
Ely is also a principal investigator for the African-American Roots Project, a nonprofit group that studies the genealogy of black Americans.
That includes technology, where studies show that two-thirds of Americans over 55 are now online.
The people she studies seem mostly white, upper class Americans, but the habits she identifies are quite likely universal.
And the previous studies have really found that African-Americans and Hispanic and Latino populations were more likely to feel this way.
Some studies show that Latinos and African-Americans are much more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia than whites, even though the illness occurs in all races at the same rate.
Recent studies show that as many as 15 million Americans have food allergies.
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Nowadays, studies show that an important number of young Americans wish to study in the Asia-Pacific region and to learn Chinese, Korean and Japanese so as to be prepared to run businesses in this promising region.
Other studies have focused on specific conditions affecting the most Americans, things such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes and depression.
Studies show even white, insured, college-educated Americans are sicker than their peers in Europe.
In several recent studies, placebos have performed as well as drugs that Americans spend millions of dollars on every year.
Some 40% of Americans don't go to the dentist regularly, according to government studies.
From the looks of various studies and surveys a comfortable retirement seems increasingly unlikely for many Americans.
The findings from the various studies the APA looked at reflect differences in minority populations including African Americans, Hispanics and gay men.
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Working more makes Americans happier than Europeans, according to a study published recently in the Journal of Happiness Studies.
Four studies in recent years identified modest declines, but a new one that looks separately at Americans lacking a high school diploma found disturbingly sharp drops in life expectancy for whites in this group.
The reasons older adults may have for volunteering may be different than those of boomers, but studies show they re no less involved in lending a helping hand: The volunteer rate for Americans ages 65 years and older jumped 64% between 1974 and 2005.
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