Study: Racial, ethnic disparities seen in all types of pain
...rs and a new research paper finds that members of racial and ethnic minorities often bear the worst of it. ...understand. The authors pull together research on racial and ethnic disparities in the perception, diagnosis and treatment of pain in locations ranging from ...Gender and geography increase racial disparities in health care, Dartmouth study shows
LEBANON, NH -- Past studies have shown racial disparities in health care treatment around the U....have a major impact on rates, even within the same racial or ethnic group. For example, in Columbia, S.C., New York City, and Los Angeles, rates of knee repl...Penn study to determine why African-American males have worse outcomes from prostate cancer
...ment patterns will be examined to see if there are racial disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer: i.e., are African-American men with prostate cancer receiving surgery, or opting, instead, for radiation therapy? Cases will also be re-examined to see if physicians are recommending the...Minority children: over- or underrepresented in medical research?
...y average of 575. They compared the percentages of racial and ethnic groups in medical research to census da...ther hand, there are data to suggest that there is racial and ethnic bias in who is questioned about child abuse." Why black children were more likely to be i...Nursing home residents, minorities under-treated for recurrent stroke
...merican Heart Association. The study also showed racial minorities receive blood thinners for recurrent st...sons, researchers investigated the extent to which racial minorities are less likely to receive necessary drug treatment for stroke while living in a U.S. nur...Mix of factors related to exercise among minority women
Women from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds say that having more convenient and inexpensive places to exercise would encourage them to become more active, a nationwide collection of studies in the September issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine concludes. ...HHS awards $14 million to support Bioethics Research Center
...ican Americans and assisting in the elimination of racial disparities in health and improving access to quality health care and health services. The center serves as a resource for primary and secondary research exploring the role of cultural diversity in the bioethics community. The grant was awarded under...Medical professionals embrace patient-focused care revolution
...edical mistakes, the growing uninsured population, racial inequalities in patient care, reimbursement challenges, and the critical care work force shortage as just a few of the industry's deficiencies. The ACCP recognized these disparities and created the Patient-Focused Care Pledge that emphasizes the hea...NIH grants support health disparities biomedical research
... to define the causes of health disparities in the racial and ethnic populations served by the grantee insti...e of the health disparities that negatively impact racial and ethnic minority populations. The health disparities include a variety of cancers (breast, prosta...Women's symptoms are new or different
...n's symptoms of AMI, including possible ethnic and racial differences....Panel: Clinical use of embryonic stem cells jeopardized by Bush's policy on federal funding
...of HLA proteins vary considerably within ethnic or racial groups, and quite dramatically between racial groups. No information is available on the federally approved cell lines' particular combinations of...Major prostate-cancer prevention study to launch awareness campaign in churches nationwide
...in medical research is beneficial to people of all racial backgrounds and ethnicities. If African Americans don't participate in such research we have no way of knowing whether certain medications or prevention strategies will help them - whether the results can be generalized to the population at large," C...M. D. Anderson, African-American churches team up for prostate cancer prevention study
...kely to die from the disease than men of any other racial or ethnic background. "SELECT Sunday was develope... national target of 20 percent enrollment for this racial group," Cook says. "For this reason, we are placing a strong emphasis on recruiting African-America...Interracial interactions are cognitively demanding
... imaging that white individuals attempt to control racial bias when exposed to black individuals, and that t...cal theory." Their findings suggest that harboring racial bias, however unintentional, makes negotiating interracial interactions more cognitively demanding. ...Study finds racial differences in survival rates after prostate cancer treatment
...d that "researchers should continue to investigate racial disparities in treatment outcomes as well as the specific social, biologic or environmental conditions that may be responsible for these disparities."...Other highlights in the November 19 issue of JNCI
...tment. "Researchers should continue to investigate racial disparities in treatment outcomes as well as the specific social, biologic, or environmental conditions that may be responsible for these disparities," the authors conclude. Contact: Dianne Shaw, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, 919-966-783...UCLA teams with Drew to provide cancer care
...ericans and Latino Americans are higher than other racial groups in the United States. With broader treatmen...rtnership "an important step in closing the gap of racial disparities related to cancer incidence in South Central Los Angeles." The disparities are well docu...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, December 2, 2003
...actual doctor-patient interaction did not find the racial concordant visits had better patientcentered communication. Researchers studied 252 adults and 31 doctors, all either African-American or white, in 16 primary care practices. An editorial writer says that minorities are vastly under-represented among...Moderate alcohol use may be associated with brain shrinkage
...er drinkers when looking at men and women and each racial group. In general, both ventricular and sulcal size increased with higher alcohol intake among men, women, whites, and blacks, indicating a dose-response effect of alcohol consumption and brain atrophy. This finding suggests that the process might...Practice-based intervention improves quality of care for young children
...nd lack of a usual source of care among ethnic and racial minorities and children in low-income families, according to background information in the article. The Healthy Steps for Young Children Program was designed to meet the needs of families regarding their young children's early development and behavi...