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Social Factors Not Genetics Drive Racial Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Survival

...ilization were controlled for or equalized, racial disparities were reduced substantially. Lower socioeconomic ...strated that there is no strong evidence of racial disparities in survival between African-Americans and Caucasians with colon cancer after accounting for racial d...

More and More American Women Go for Facelifts to Get Jobs

...ure, healthful food and freedom from stress. These disparities should be fought, not exaggerated, sociologists urge. They also add, "Natural facial irregularities, lines and spots are perfectly compatible with charm, expressiveness, good grooming or whatever is meant by beauty. Gray or white hair looks better ...

Racial Discrimination Takes The Nobility Out Of Doctoring

...is a large, nationwide study revealing that racial disparities apparently persist.Unfortunately we couldn't find significant progress, Popescu says.Medicare is the U.S. government health insurance program for the elderly and disabled....

National Cancer Database Reveals Disparities in Access to Thyroid Cancer Surgery

...nd the results of our study suggest that there are disparities that need to be addressed in thyroid cancer surgery as well." "Looking at how to get high-quality care to all patients is probably the most important outcome consideration," Dr. Bilimoria concluded. "The fundamental issue here concerns quality of c...

New Strategy To Tackle Rheumatic Heart Disease

...daid solutions to an underlying tragedy. Ongoing disparities in the burden of ARF and RHD reflect a number of failures in the development and delivery of health and health-related services, they say. Failure in primary prevention of ARF and RHD . . . reflects the failure to provide Indigenous communities wit...

NIH Study Normal Brain Development in Children Across US

... suggests that in previous studies, general health disparities might have inflated the cognitive gap between low and high income children, Dr. Waber said. There were hints of much-cited differences in verbal and spatial ability between boys and girls, but these differences were not as sharp as those described ...

Number of Children Hospitalized With Type 2 Diabetes on the Rise: Research

...e, adding to the long and troubling list of health disparities disproportionately suffered by minority children i...y to further explore the mechanisms causing health disparities in this new and profoundly serious child health problem....

Women Less Likely to Control LDL Cholesterol Levels Than Men

...ept that of cholesterol control, where significant disparities existed between men and women. The study also investigated disparities in care owing to race and income level, and found significant gaps in care. The findings suggeste...

Women With Heart Disease and Diabetes Less Likely to Receive Proper Care: Study

...r heart disease, few studies have evaluated gender disparities in managed care settings. All the patients in th...ve received eye exams than their male peers. The disparities were found among women even though they generally see a doctor or other health care provider more of...

American Indians in South Dakota Have More Health Problems Than Others in State, Nationwide, Health Official Says

...of the Zaniya Task Force, recently reviewed health disparities among American Indians and the rest of the state's population and found what he called "very somber and very troubling" statistics. The state Legislature established the task force to ensure that all residents have access to health insurance, and G...

ENDEAVOR III Trial Reports Key Findings on New-generation Stent

...-eluting stent but also whether early angiographic disparities translate into differences in late clinical restenosis," he said. The Endeavor III trial is 1 of 5 studies gathering the data necessary for market approval of the new stent by the Food and Drug Administration....

Hurricane Katrina Still Wrecking Lives - More So With Blacks

... risk of flooding. As per the Kaiser survey, the disparities remain."Anywhere we looked in the survey, in the stories people told us and in the data, we found the racial divide was confirmed, underscored," foundation president Drew Altman said in an interview. Across the city, 56 percent of blacks said their...

More and More American Women Go for Facelifts to Get Jobs

...ure, healthful food and freedom from stress. These disparities should be fought, not exaggerated, sociologists urge. They also add, "Natural facial irregularities, lines and spots are perfectly compatible with charm, expressiveness, good grooming or whatever is meant by beauty. Gray or white hair looks better ...

Hate Crimes Against Gays and Lesbians Rising in US

...using and job discrimination than bisexuals. The disparities persisted after Herek controlled statistically for age, race, ethnicity and education he said. "Men are generally more likely than women to be the targets of most kinds of violent crime, and this pattern seems to hold in anti-gay hate crimes as wel...

Children With Chronic Illness Die in Hospitals

...overed by the study, significant racial and ethnic disparities persisted, with the odds of dying at home remainin...s study cannot tell us why these racial and ethnic disparities exist, said Feudtner. If they reflect different preferences among these groups, then the differen...

U.S Shows Increased Obesity Rate

...escent Healthwere included in order to examine the disparities in obesity. They defined adult overweight and obesity using body mass index cutoffs of 25 and 30, respectively. Children at risk for overweight and overweight were classified as being in the 85th and 95th percentiles of body mass index, respectivel...

Afro- American Women Have More Aggressive Breast Cancer

...s to healthcare is a strong factor contributing to disparities in cancer rates and outcomes between African Americans and Caucasians, says Dr. Mitchell, the Jefferson study and others have shown that biological differences play important roles. "Our goal is to develop individualized treatment strategies for wo...

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