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More than a third of stroke patients don't get to the hospital by ambulance, even though that's the fastest way to get there, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-emergencies-dont-ems.html Cardiology Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:10:06 EST news286480861 Cases of tuberculosis reached an all-time low in the United States last year, but the disease continued to affect minorities at much higher rates than whites, health authorities said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-tuberculosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:01:44 EST news283089697 Earth Day may be more than a month away, but another, more personal, ecosystem has been shown to also be worth protecting—within our bodies are communities of microbes that affect the behavior of human cells hosting them. These communities, called the "microbiome," is so crucial to our health that some consider it to be a complex "second genome." Understanding the interaction of these microbes among one another and their human hosts has the potential to yield insights into numerous diseases and complex human disorders from obesity to susceptibility to infection. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-human-genome-microbiome.html Medical research Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:10:18 EST news281272193 (HealthDay)—Efforts to prevent breast cancer need to focus more aggressively and coherently on environmental factors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-breast-cancer-focus-environment.html Cancer Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:30:01 EST news279905442 A new study finds that nearly half of older teenagers and young adults break up and get back together with previous dating partners and over half of this group have sex as part of the reconciliation process. This study was recently published in the Journal of Adolescent Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-onoff-relationships-sex-teenagers-young.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:19:51 EST news278083178 (Medical Xpress)—A desire for expensive, high-status goods is related to feelings of social status - which helps explain why minorities are attracted to bling, a new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-bling-social-status.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:10:46 EST news274972230 The odds of individuals with open-angle glaucoma undergoing visual field testing decreased for all racial/ethnic groups from 2001 through 2009, but the odds decreased the most for Hispanic men and women in a study of enrollees in a large U.S. managed care network, according to a report published in the December issue of Archives of Ophthalmology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-odds-visual-field-glaucoma-decreased.html Ophthalmology Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:00:12 EST news274369693 Peanut allergies are rising among American children and one reason might be due to economic status. According to a new study presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting, greater rates of peanut allergy are found in families with higher economic status. This supports the "hygiene hypothesis" of many allergists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-socioeconomic-status-linked-childhood-peanut.html Immunology Fri, 09 Nov 2012 04:10:02 EST news271654267 Researchers at the University of British Columbia are leading the first nationwide project on how sexual and gender minorities experience cancer, highlighting previously overlooked communities’ perspectives on cancer care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-ubc-lgbt-breast-gynecological-cancers.html Cancer Fri, 03 Aug 2012 06:55:07 EST news263195686 Timing can affect whether females and minorities experience discrimination — says a study published today in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-affect-women-minorities-discrimination.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 21 May 2012 12:47:32 EST news256823143 Public health researchers have long attributed the disparity in colonoscopy rates between whites and minorities to a lack of health insurance or access to doctors. Now, a new study suggests the reasons for the differences are more complex. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-racial-disparities-colon-cancer-screening.html Cancer Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:30:02 EST news242899967 The odds of dying appear to increase for patients treated at hospitals with higher proportions of minority trauma patients, although racial disparities may partly explain differences in outcomes between trauma hospitals, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-link-percentage-minority-trauma-patients.html Other Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:17:55 EST news235671456 Racial minorities have reduced access to high-quality joint replacement care, according to Dr. Xueya Cai and colleagues from the University of Iowa in the US. Their work, published online in Springer's journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, shows that African American patients are more likely than Caucasians to receive total knee arthroplasty (or replacement surgery) in low-quality hospitals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-dictate-quality.html Other Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:29:29 EST news235124953 The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity, created by the president as part of the first lady's "Let's Move" campaign, aims to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation, returning the country to a rate of 5 percent by 2030, which was the rate before childhood obesity first began to rise in the late 1970s. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-white-house-childhood-obesity-task.html Health Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:58:07 EST news234701870 Past research shows that minorities suffer higher rates of advanced cancer and deaths from all types of cancer compared to whites. According to an article in the August issue of Cancer, the role of “patient navigator” is emerging as a tool to address these disparities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-patient-disparities-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:20:01 EST news232796507 Roughly 1 in 4 lesbian or gay teens and 15 percent of bisexual teens are homeless, versus 3 percent of exclusively heterosexual teens, finds a Children's Hospital Boston study of more than 6,300 Massachusetts public high school students. Moreover, among teens who were homeless, those who were gay, lesbian or bisexual (GLB) were consistently more likely than heterosexuals to be on their own, unaccompanied by a parent or guardian. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-gaylesbian-high-school-students-homeless.html Health Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:23:45 EST news230484213 A new supplemental issue of The Gerontologist urges aging researchers to include representative samples of ethnically diverse populations in their work. The publication also identifies research priorities for moving the science of recruitment and retention forward, in addition to providing several strategies that scholars can employ in their work. The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that non-white minorities will make up 42 percent of the country's 65-and-over population by 2050. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-minority-crucial-effective-aging.html Other Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:49:59 EST news230471385 After years of research have shown that minorities do not receive the same quality of health care as whites do, a new study suggests there has been some improvement in reducing the gap, at least for stroke patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-treatment-minority-patients-top-ranked-hospitals.html Health Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:42:08 EST news227886116 Among low-income patients who are black or whose primary language is not English, patient navigators may help improve colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates, according to a report in the May 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The article is part of the journal's Health Care Reform series. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-patient-colorectal-cancer-screening-ethnically.html Cancer Mon, 23 May 2011 17:30:10 EST news225390594