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Race origins and health disparites

Race origins and health disparites

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Much is often said about the glaring statistics showing that some racial and ethnic minorities face greater risks than whites when it comes to health.





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Study reveals high death rates and short life expectancy among the homeless and marginally housed

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Homeless and marginally housed people have much higher mortality and shorter life expectancy than could be expected on the basis of low income alone, concludes a study from Canada published on bmj.com today.


Genomic research shows Indians descended from two groups

Genomic research shows Indians descended from two groups

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study published in the September 24th issue of Nature, an international team describes how they harnessed modern genomic technology to explore the ancient history of India, the world' ...


Breast cancer incidence in Spain drops in early 2000s after decades of increasing rates

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

After a steady increase of invasive breast cancer cases in Spanish women during the 1980s and 1990s, incidence rates abruptly declined starting in 2001—a trend most likely explained by a period effect linked to screening ...


Physician bias might keep life-saving transplants from black and Hispanic patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Physician bias might be the reason why African Americans are not receiving kidney/pancreas transplants at the same rate as similar patients in other racial groups. Dr. Keith Melancon, director of kidney and pancreas transplantation ...


Widowed facing higher mortality risk, MSU researcher finds

Widowed facing higher mortality risk, researcher finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Married people in the United States are living longer these days, but the widowed are experiencing a higher mortality rate, according to new research by a Michigan State University sociologist.


Feds reviewing humpback whale endangered status (AP)

Feds reviewing humpback whale endangered status

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The federal government is considering taking the humpback whale off the endangered species list in response to data showing the population of the massive marine mammal has been steadily growing in ...


Health information not communicated well to minority populations, MU researcher finds

Health information not communicated well to minority populations, researcher finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

According to the Institute of Medicine, more than 90 million Americans suffer from low health literacy¬, a mismatch between patients' abilities to understand healthcare information and providers' abilities ...


Gut ecology in transplant patients

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Small-bowel transplant patients with an ileostomy -- an opening into their small bowel -- have a very different population of bacteria living in their gut than patients whose ileostomy has been closed, researchers from UC ...


Road rage: Fuel vapor heightens aggression

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Outrageous prices may not be the only thing causing anger at the petrol pumps. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Physiology, has shown that rats exposed to fumes from leaded and unleaded gasoline become ...


Childhood cancer survivors less likely to marry, researchers find

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Adult survivors of childhood cancer are 20 to 25 percent more likely to never marry compared with siblings and the general population, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Bi ...



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