Minority Gap in Medical Screening Tests Persists
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FRIDAY, Sept. 29 (HealthDay News) -- While recent patient surveys have suggested that Americans of all backgrounds are getting important disease-screening tests, a new review of Medicare claims refutes that view.
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GREENWOOD, Miss. -- A national shortage of doctors is hitting poor places the hardest, and efforts to bring in foreign physicians to fill the gap are running into a knot of restrictions from the war on terror and the immigration debate.
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NEW YORK  - There are disparities in the treatment and outcome between older black and white patients who have renal cell cancer, with blacks having significantly lower survival rates, according to a new study.
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Elderly black men are only 50 percent as likely to get tested for prostate cancer as elderly white men are, says a study in the current issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Experts remain undecided about screening 40 to 50-year-old women for breast cancer.
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MONDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDayNews) -- Colorectal cancer is curable if detected early, but many Americans -- particularly Hispanics and women -- don't get the screening tests.
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In another sign of racial and economic  disparities in the U.S. health care system, researchers said on  Tuesday that minority children and those without private  insurance are more likely to have a ruptured appendix.
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The gold-standard test to detect colon cancer is missing a &quot;concerning&quot; number of cases, according to a Canadian study that evaluated the success rate of colonoscopies.
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While rates of HIV/AIDS diagnoses remained steady in 2000-2003, alarming racial and ethnic disparities continue to persist, as do increasing rates among gay men, the Centers for Disease Control &amp; Prevention said Wednesday.
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A survey of older Californians shows that many -- especially women and Latinos -- are not being screened for colorectal cancer as they should be.
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Many Americans are still failing to get two of the most effective tests for catching colon cancer early, according to researchers with the American Cancer Society.
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In the United States, rates of  invasive cervical cancer declined between 1998 and 2002,  although significant racial, ethnic, and geographic differences  persisted, according to pre-vaccine surveillance data covering  87 percent the population of women.
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NEW YORK  - Based on certain factors, one would expect Hispanics, Asians, and African Americans to be at greater risk for death following heart bypass surgery than Caucasians, but new research suggests this is not the case.
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Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are at least partially due to differences in care between hospitals and not racism on an individual level, a new study says.
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As technologically advanced as our country is today, it&#39;s both frustrating and heartbreaking that millions of Americans of all ages and across all social, cultural and ethnic groups are still battling life-threatening and debilitating diseases.
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BOSTON -- The mammogram debate continued Tuesday after another study suggested some women may only need the screening test every other year.
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NEW YORK  - According to a survey of  low-income, rural women over age 40, nearly 7 out of 10 say  their physicians have never prompted them to get a mammogram.