http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders have more bleeding strokes at an earlier age than other people independent of methamphetamine abuse, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-native-hawaiians-earlier-age-independent.html Cardiology Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:16:37 EST news279378976 (Medical Xpress)—Rates of diagnosed diabetes are much higher among some Asian subgroups than is apparent when aggregating all Asians as a whole, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) which appears in the current online issue of Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-pacific-islanders-south-asians-filipinos.html Diabetes Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:59:07 EST news269593141 In the first study to detail the health of Pacific Islanders living in the United States, University of Michigan researchers have found alarmingly high rates of obesity and smoking. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-pacific-islanders-high-obesity.html Health Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:43:47 EST news267698610 As the diabetes epidemic spreads worldwide, there is growing concern for Asian American populations, who are nearly twice as likely to develop diabetes, particularly type 2 diabetes. Compounding the problem, many of the standard ways to detect diabetes fail in people of Asian descent. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-unique-physiology-key-diabetes-asian.html Diabetes Tue, 08 May 2012 14:54:10 EST news255707588 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 Cases of heart disease in the United States have declined in the last several years, down to six percent of the population in 2010 compared to 6.7 percent in 2006, health authorities said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-heart-disease-decline.html Cardiology Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:27:27 EST news237731234 Disparities between racial/ethnic minorities and whites cross all aspects of stroke care, according to an American Heart Association/American Stroke Association scientific statement. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-disparities-prevail-racialethnic-groups.html Cardiology Thu, 26 May 2011 16:38:02 EST news225646650 Researchers at the University of Otago, New Zealand, say standard medication used for acute heart disease should be reconsidered for some Maori and Pacific Island patients because of drug resistance caused by high rates of Group A streptococcal infection, the same infection which leads to rheumatic fever. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-acute-heart-drugs-reconsidered-maori.html Medications Mon, 23 May 2011 10:39:42 EST news225365963