http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. White and Hispanic individuals are being diagnosed with melanoma more frequently in recent years, whereas Hispanic and black patients continue to have advanced skin cancer at diagnosis, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Dermatology. http://www.physorg.com/news180638733.html Medicine & Health Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:25:55 EST news180638733 Hospitals that treat more black cancer patients have worse survival rates on average for patients with breast and colon cancer, regardless of race, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. http://www.physorg.com/news169996124.html Medicine & Health Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:30:03 EST news169996124 Physician-scientists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center believe that a heightened level a certain growth factor in the blood may explain why blacks have a greater prevalence of hypertension and kidney disease compared to whites. Results from a new study are the first to show that an elevated level of a protein, called transforming growth factor B1 (TGF-B1), raises the risk of hypertension and renal disease in humans. http://www.physorg.com/news166722533.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:53:18 EST news166722533 Predictors of atrial fibrillation (AF or afib) might offer physicians a better way to prevent stroke in blacks, according to a new study done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news160213743.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:49:37 EST news160213743 Elderly patients who undergo surgery at teaching-intensive hospitals have better survival rates than at nonteaching hospitals, but these better survival rates apparently occur in white patients, not black patients. http://www.physorg.com/news154025462.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:51:17 EST news154025462 Disparities in survival among black patients diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer are not seen when patients are recommended appropriate treatment, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://www.physorg.com/news151609530.html Medicine & Health Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:47:50 EST news151609530 At the intersection of two U.S. health epidemics - obesity and chronic pain - researchers from the University of Michigan Health System found black patients with chronic pain were less likely to have their weight or body mass index (BMI) recorded, even though they are at higher risk for having obesity when compared with their white counterparts. http://www.physorg.com/news143210383.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:39:43 EST news143210383 Small, clinically silent areas of bleeding in the brain appear to be more common in black versus white stroke patients hospitalized for new brain bleeds, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center. These findings may help explain the higher risk of hemorrhagic stroke among the black population, especially in those who are medically underserved. http://www.physorg.com/news142528606.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:16:46 EST news142528606 Black Americans have a higher occurrence of colon polyps, according to a new study. This is a significant finding considering the incidence of colon cancer among black men has increased and remained unchanged among black women during the last 20 years. http://www.physorg.com/news141472659.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:57:39 EST news141472659 Compared with white patients, black patients undergoing screening colonoscopy have a higher prevalence of colon polyps, according to a study in the September 24 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news141403522.html Medicine & Health Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:45:22 EST news141403522