http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new study finds that lung cancer patients treated in hospitals that care for a high percentage of uninsured and Medicaid-insured patients, so-called "high safety-net burden facilities," were significantly less likely to undergo surgery that was intended to cure the cancer compared to patients treated at low safety-net burden facilities. This difference persisted even after controlling for other factors that significantly decreased the likelihood of curative-intent surgery, such as race, insurance status, stage, and female gender as well as other hospital characteristics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-hospitals-resort-quality-lung-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:54:49 EST news234784472 Wealth, population size, race and age associate with the supply of hospice care available in a county, according to a study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management this month. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-hospice-strongly-local-area-median.html Health Mon, 09 May 2011 13:09:52 EST news224165354