http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—Minority patients in the United States are less likely than whites to be screened for colorectal cancer, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-minorities-colon-cancer-screening.html Cancer Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:20:02 EST news277477931 When researchers from UCLA Medical Center investigated the link between racial disparities and appendicitis outcomes in children, they found that the type of hospital in which black, Hispanic and other minority patients receive care—community, children's or county—affects their odds of developing a perforated appendix. The study published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons is a first-of-its-kind look at the role hospital type plays in race-based treatment variances among this patient subset. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-racial-disparities-pediatric-appendicitis-treatment.html Surgery Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:43:40 EST news275921014 New research examining the role of race and ethnicity in an individual's decision to become a donor for hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) identifies several factors associated with varied participation rates in national donor registries across racial/ethnic groups. Results of this first-of-its-kind study are published online today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-cultural-social-factors-barriers-minority.html Other Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:26:19 EST news275228760 A study comparing how physicians discuss clinical trials during clinical interactions with black patients versus white patients further confirms racial disparities in the quality of communication between physicians and patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-black-patients-clinical-trial-white.html Cancer Mon, 29 Oct 2012 02:50:01 EST news270697349 University of Minnesota School of Public Health researchers have reported two high-signal genetic markers correlated with coronary artery disease (CAD) that should help define genetic fingerprints that can signal an increased risk of developing the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-genetic-proof-coronary-artery-disease.html Genetics Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:56:47 EST news258972997 Heart transplant patients who receive new organs before the age of 55 and get them at hospitals that perform at least nine heart transplants a year are significantly more likely than other people to survive at least 10 years after their operations, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-younger-patients-decade-longer-heart.html Cardiology Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:50:54 EST news249576648 On the health front, the poor often have at least two things going against them: a lack of insurance and chronic illnesses, of which diabetes is among the most common. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-tool-health-centers-medical-home.html Health Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:00:06 EST news248541157 Stage III colon cancer patients in the general population who receive adjuvant treatment for the disease have an improved rate of survival when oxaliplatin is added to 5-fluorouracil (5FU), according to a study published Jan. 20 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-oxaliplatin-colon-cancer-patient-survival.html Cancer Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:53:32 EST news246304402 Among children with kidney disease, certain races are less likely to get kidney transplants and are more likely to die than other races, according to two studies from Emory University that were presented during the American Society of Nephrology's Annual Kidney Week. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-racial-inequalities-kids-kidney-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:30:49 EST news240143416 Ethnic differences in appointment keeping may be an important factor in poor health outcomes among some minority patients with diabetes, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-ethnic-differences-affect-health-diabetes.html Health Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:50:01 EST news238922051 Experts have written about health care disparities between Latinos and non-Latino whites, mostly from a policy standpoint. They've also looked at the same disparities from the perspective of the patient, in terms of access, use and the quality of health care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-physicians-latinos-high-hurdles.html Health Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:22:15 EST news237536526 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