http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. 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 A new analysis has found that Hispanic lung cancer patients seem to live longer than white or black patients. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study suggests that, as with several other types of cancer, certain yet-to-be-defined genetic and/or environmental factors put Hispanic patients at a survival advantage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-hispanic-lung-cancer-patients-tend.html Cancer Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:04:14 EST news254372647 Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-blacks-cervical-cancer-virus.html Cancer Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:37:12 EST news252502616 (HealthDay) -- Women with ovarian cancer who are black, either uninsured or Medicare recipients, or who have annual incomes of less than $35,000 are more likely to receive poorer-quality care, a new study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-black-women-uninsured-worse-ovarian.html Cancer Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:31:48 EST news252081099 New evidence that physician attitudes and stereotypes about race, even if unconscious, affect the doctor-patient relationship in ways that may contribute to racial disparities in health care http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-unconscious-racial-bias-doctors-linked.html Health Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:00:06 EST news251033099 African Americans in Georgia, especially in rural areas, have drastically poorer survival rates from cancer. These disparities are much larger when compared to national data, according to the findings from a study recently published in the journal Cancer by a team of researchers in the University of Georgia College of Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-1057ancer-survival-uncovers-wide-racial.html Cancer Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:15:18 EST news250874113 Being educated about your health and your treatment options is a good thing. According to a new study, kidney failure patients who take part in an education program are more likely to get evaluated for a kidney transplant. The study appears in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate that requiring a formal patient education class may help reduce inequities in kidney failure patients' access to kidney transplantation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-patient-classes-disparities-kidney-transplantation.html Other Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:24:59 EST news248635491 A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that racial disparities exist in both the early and late steps in access to kidney transplantation. This study is part of the February special themed issue of the journal on racial disparity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-racial-disparities-access-kidney-transplantation.html Other Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:22:29 EST news248016137 The disparity in stroke-related deaths among black and white children dramatically narrowed after prevention strategies changed to include ultrasound screening and chronic blood transfusions for children with sickle cell anemia, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-sickle-cell-anemia-efforts-decreased.html Cardiology Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:35:47 EST news247397738 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 Black senior citizens who need surgery for the intestinal disorder diverticulitis are significantly more likely to die in the hospital than their equally ill white counterparts, even when each racial group carries the same health insurance, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-black-elderly-whites-die-intestinal.html Other Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:00:03 EST news241101965 White heart transplant patients under the age of 18 are more than twice as likely to be alive a decade after surgery as their African-American counterparts, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-white-pediatric-heart-transplant-patients.html Cardiology Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:18:47 EST news240466720 African-American and Hispanic children are less likely to receive a cranial computed tomography (CT) scan in an emergency department (ED) following minor head trauma than white children, according to an abstract presented Friday, Oct. 14 at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in Boston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-minority-children-ct-scans-trauma.html Health Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:35:18 EST news237785706 Where you live could play a larger role in health disparities than originally thought, according to a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. They examined a racially integrated, low-income neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland and found that, with the exception of smoking, nationally reported disparities in hypertension, diabetes, obesity among women and use of health services disappeared or narrowed. The results are featured in the October 2011 issue of Health Affairs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-larger-health-disparities.html Health Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:37:35 EST news237116232 There is too little attention paid in national and international public policy circles to the digital divide in health and law enforcement databases, says a new article in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-health-forensic-databases-contribute-racial.html Other Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:27:14 EST news236968028 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 African Americans are four times more likely to develop kidney failure than whites. A new study has found that a condition that occurs when the kidneys are damaged and spill protein into the urine contributes to this increased risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-protein-urine-kidney-failure-african-americans.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:37:00 EST news233552197 Even though overall black patients have a lower risk of death while receiving dialysis than white patients, this applies primarily to older adults, as black patients younger than 50 years of age have a significantly higher risk of death, according to a study in the August 10 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-younger-black-patients-dialysis-higher.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:00:06 EST news232118346 A national transplant policy change designed to give African-American patients greater access to donor kidneys has sliced in half the racial disparities that have long characterized the allocation of lifesaving organs, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-national-policy-racial-disparity-kidney.html Other Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:30:01 EST news231495948 Among nursing home residents at high risk for pressure ulcers, black residents had higher prevalence rates than white residents from 2003 through 2008, with the disparity largely related to the higher rates among nursing homes that disproportionately serve black residents, according to a study in the July 13 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-prevalence-pressure-ulcers-black-high-risk.html Health Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:49:59 EST news229708189 (Medical Xpress) -- Despite studies that show that whites are more likely than blacks to misuse prescription pain medications, a new study reveals that blacks are significantly more likely than whites to be checked for potential drug abuse. The study appears in Annals of Family Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-black-patients-prescription-drug-abuse.html Health Tue, 10 May 2011 08:11:41 EST news224233747 Colorectal cancer screening rates increased for Medicare beneficiaries when coverage was expanded to average-risk individuals, but racial disparities still exist, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-colorectal-cancer-screening-medicare-beneficiaries.html Cancer Tue, 03 May 2011 13:20:01 EST news223646624 High blood pressure, or hypertension, is more common and often more deadly in blacks than in whites, and a new University of Rochester study shows that low vitamin D levels among black people might be a powerful factor that contributes to the racial differences in hypertension. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-vitamin-d-racial-differences-blood.html Medical research Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:30:42 EST news223032629 As recently as the 1990s, the Veterans Affairs health care system had a subpar reputation for quality, but two new studies of standard quality metrics, both led by Amal Trivedi, assistant professor of community health at Brown University and a physician at the Providence VA Medical Center, show that the system that cares for more than 5 million patients has improved markedly in the last decade. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-va-major-gains-quality-racial.html Health Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:45:46 EST news221388333