Children with high-risk neuroblastoma had worse outcomes if they were from certain racial/ethnic groups, or were on public rather than private insurance, despite being treated in clinical trials with standardized protocols, ...
Jun 1, 2022
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(HealthDay)—Cognitive disability is the most prevalent disability type among young adults, while middle-aged and older adults have the highest prevalence of mobility disability, according to a report published in the Aug. ...
Aug 20, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Black and Hispanic people are less likely than white people to make an appointment to see a neurologist, according to a new U.S. study.
May 17, 2017
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Two decades after the Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect, people with disabilities continue to face difficulties meeting major social needs, including obtaining appropriate access to health care facilities and ...
Oct 5, 2011
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(AP) -- The nation's worst hospitals treat twice the proportion of elderly black patients and poor patients than the best hospitals, and their patients are more likely to die of heart attacks and pneumonia, new research ...
Oct 5, 2011
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A new study published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers shows that, in a nationwide survey of young American adults age 18-44 years, nearly a third of non-Hispanic Blacks and ...
Jul 29, 2020
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University of Michigan researchers say employing a conversational assistant—think 'Hey, Siri,' or perhaps something less global like an "Ask the Doc"—could be one way to narrow the gap in health disparities impacting ...
Dec 1, 2020
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Nurturing mothers have garnered accolades for rescuing skinned knees on the playground and coaxing their children to sleep with lullabies. Now they're gaining merit for their offspring's physical health in middle age.
Jan 23, 2012
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The income gap between men and women in the United States has been closing over the last quarter century, but not among physicians.
Sep 13, 2013
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More than 80% of U.S. physicians reported that people with significant disabilities have worse quality of life than nondisabled people, an attitude that may contribute to health care disparities among people with disability, ...
Feb 1, 2021
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