Death Wishes Influenced By Ethnicity and Racial Background
A new study published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society says that the dying wishes of people are based on their ethnicity and racial backgrounds. // The study found that Arab Americans did not want to spend their last days at a nursing home, while African Americans did not mind it. Hispanic people want to die with dignity and were very worried about it. <...Racial Identity Dictates What We See Or Rather Whom We See
A new study has now revealed that an individual’s race plays a crucial role in determining whom they see. The researches invited individuals of a biracial background (one Black and one white parent) // to think about their parent’s ethnicity, Black or White. Had they though about their Black parent, they were able to spot the presence or absence of a Black face with just the same speed and accura...Racial disparities in cancer patients in U.S.
According to a study published in the Sept. 15 issue of the journal Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, Black American cancer patients are less// likely to question their doctors, they receive less medical information, and they are not as actively involved in their medical care compared to white patients. This may cause less-informed medical decisions, which can have a...Racial differences show difference in blood sugar control too!!
According to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and their colleagues, an investigation that combines 11 different studies reveals that black diabetics// have poorer control of blood sugar than whites. "This lower level of control may partly explain why blacks have disproportionately higher rates of death and complications from diabetes," said Julienne Kirk, P...Medicare Marked by Widespread Racial disparities
Older whites are likelier than older black adults to have their blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol under control//, although the even if they belong to a high-quality Medicare plan, researchers reported Tuesday. The findings, published in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, show that racial disparities are common throughout the Medicare system. L...Karmanos Physician-Scientists Examine Racial Disparities in Patients with Gynecologic Cancer
DETROIT, April 16, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Karmanos CancerInstitute physician-scientists today reported on two researchstudies investigating racial disparities in patients withgynecologic cancer at the American Association of Cancer Researchannual meeting in Los Angeles, CA. Caucasian patients with endometrial or ovarian cancer, onaverage, live longer than their African American count...