http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—Hispanic Americans are diagnosed with HIV infection nearly three times as often as whites, but rates and causes differ by region, a new study finds. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-hiv-hispanics-vary-region-cdc.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:30:03 EST news269194330 The proportion of Americans who are severely obese—those people 100 pounds or more overweight—continues to increase rapidly and much faster than those with moderate obesity, but the rate of growth has slowed, according to a new RAND Corporation study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-severely-obese-fastest-group-overweight.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:06:22 EST news268326374 A study of juveniles detained in Chicago suggests that more than 45 percent of males and nearly 30 percent of females had one or more psychiatric disorders with associated impairment five years after detention, according to a report published in the October issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-psychiatric-disorders-persist-young-people.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:00:03 EST news268315664 (HealthDay)—More Americans now commit suicide than die in car crashes, making suicide the leading cause of injury deaths, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-suicide-americans-car.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:40:01 EST news267382998 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have published a study describing the greater difficulty in finding matched, unrelated donors for non-Caucasian patients who are candidates for hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ethnicity-affect-likelihood-suitable-unrelated.html Cancer Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:46:53 EST news266553982 (Medical Xpress)—Hispanic children often have undiagnosed developmental delays and large numbers of both Hispanic and non-Hispanic children who first were thought to have developmental delay actually had autism, researchers affiliated with the UC Davis MIND Institute have found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-autism-hispanics.html Autism spectrum disorders Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:44:54 EST news265362224 (HealthDay) -- For women with breast cancer, disease characteristics correlate significantly with chemotherapy receipt, with no indication of racial barriers to treatment, according to a study published online Aug. 6 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-links-age-chemo.html Cancer Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:40:01 EST news263794619 (HealthDay) -- For postmenopausal women there are large racial/ethnic differences in diabetes incidence, but these are mostly attributable to lifestyle factors, according to a study published online July 25 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-racial-disparity-diabetes-due-lifestyle.html Diabetes Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:14:44 EST news262620877 Because whooping cough (pertussis) is almost as contagious as measles (affecting ~12-17 individuals with each case), clinicians are required to report cases of this bacterial respiratory tract infection to the state's department of public health. In 2010, California had the highest number of cases of whooping cough in 60 years. A new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics describes the 2010 whooping cough epidemic and details strategies to decrease the incidence of this infection. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-california-whooping-epidemic.html Pediatrics Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:01 EST news261849094 (HealthDay) -- Although most Americans say their teeth are in relatively good shape, a newly published survey reveals that many are not getting routine dental checkups, with cost cited as the most common obstacle. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-americans-good-dental.html Dentistry Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:20:02 EST news261850105 (HealthDay) -- Skin cell transplants can restore pigment to the skin of some patients with the disorder known as vitiligo, new research finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-skin-cell-transplant-vitiligo-patients.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:27:41 EST news259593984 Researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health (BUSM, BUSPH), along with the VA Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, have found inpatient medical procedures increased more among non-elderly, lower- and medium- income populations, Hispanics and whites, after health care reform went into effect in Massachusetts. The findings, which currently appear in Medical Care, suggest improved access to outpatient care for vulnerable subpopulations since health care reform took effect. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-massachusetts-health-reform-inpatient-surgical.html Health Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:48:42 EST news258803314 Blacks and Hispanics have a significantly higher risk of developing precancerous colorectal polyps compared with whites, according to a study by researchers at NewYork – Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. The findings appeared in the online edition of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-blacks-hispanics-higher-precancerous-colorectal.html Cancer Thu, 03 May 2012 16:00:03 EST news255278666 A policy instituted in 2005 has reduced racial disparities in kidney transplantation among children, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). Children are better off receiving kidneys from live donors, though, and receiving organs from deceased donors can diminish the limited supply of organs available to kidney failure patients on waiting lists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-children-today-racial-disparities-kidney.html Other Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:00:05 EST news254672493 New research finds foreign-born Hispanics now living in the United States appear to be less likely to have a stroke compared to non-Hispanic white people. The research was released today and will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans April 21 to April 28, 2012. The research is also being simultaneously published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-born-country-hispanics.html Neuroscience Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:00:03 EST news249047082 A new study finds that decreasing the disparities in rates of type 2 diabetes among Whites, Blacks and Hispanics could eliminate some racial and ethnic disparities in the development of cognitive impairment or dementia. Prior research has shown that type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for all forms of major cognitive impairment, including Alzheimer’s disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-illuminates-ethnic-disparities-diabetes-cognitive.html Diabetes Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:20:01 EST news247320671 When people in the U.S. are asked to provide their weight for research surveys, they underestimate their weight and overestimate their height, despite numerous public reports about increasing rates of obesity. Whites are more likely to do so than Blacks or Hispanics, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-people-fudge-weight-height-surveys.html Health Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:30:02 EST news246876979 One in five adults in the U.S. had a mental illness in 2010, with people ages 18 to 25 having the highest rates, according to a national survey. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-mental-illness-struck-adults.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:25:02 EST news246281089 More U.S. women are having twins these days. The reason? Older moms and fertility treatments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-women-twins-babies.html Health Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:39:03 EST news244906732 Demographics and clinical factors appear to be associated with survival in patients with Parkinson disease (PD), and the presence of dementia is associated with a significant increase in mortality, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-demographic-clinical-factors-survival-patients.html Parkinson's & Movement disorders Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:00:04 EST news244731482 A new analysis of teenage drug abuse finds widespread problems among whites, Native Americans, Hispanics and youngsters of multiple races, with less severe abuse among Asian and African-American teens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-white-hispanic-teens-abuse-drugs.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:00:09 EST news239897353 Blacks and Hispanics have fewer cases of acute leukemia compared to whites but they die at a substantially higher rate, according to study results presented at the Fourth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held here Sept. 18-21, 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-death-higher-minorities-acute-leukemia.html Cancer Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:40:01 EST news235669878 In the last decade, minorities have poured into nursing homes at a time when whites have left in even greater numbers, according to a new Brown University study that suggests a racial disparity in elder care options in the United States. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-disparity-nursing-homes-whites-minorities.html Health Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:40:11 EST news229257600 New research finds that gestational diabetes, or pregnancy-related diabetes, may not raise the risk of heart disease independent of other cardiovascular risk factors except in certain high-risk populations, such as Hispanics. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-women-heart-disease-gestational-diabetes.html Cardiology Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:29:20 EST news226578536 In 2007, the death of 12-year-old Deamonte Driver from untreated tooth decay exposed the need for better dental care in Maryland families with limited resources. However, the problem ranges beyond a single state, researchers found when they examined poor, migrant and minority children in Los Angeles. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-unmet-dental-los-angeles-children.html Health Mon, 09 May 2011 10:45:07 EST news224156683 Parents shouldn't let up when it comes to discouraging their kids from smoking. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-parents-role.html Health Mon, 02 May 2011 04:07:39 EST news223528026