Hospital Admission Rates Higher for White Kids in ER
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MONDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) --  White kids are admitted to hospital after an emergency room visit at a greater rate than black or Hispanic kids, new research reveals.
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Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the U.S. government said Monday in its first national estimate of the problem
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CHICAGO -- Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds. Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed narcotics such as oxycodone and morphine...
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White Americans have a two-fold  higher incidence of bladder cancer than black Americans, but  the risk of death among blacks is 35 percent higher than whites  when patients with the same cancer stage and grade are  compared.
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MONDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDayNews) -- A U.S. national database on children's hospitals can help reduce the length, cost and frequency of stays, says a University of Michigan study in the October issue of Pediatrics.
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NEW YORK  - Children whose mothers experience severe abuse at the hands of an intimate partner are more likely to wind up in hospital emergency departments, and their increased risk may persist for up to three years after the abuse has ended, new research shows.
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NEW YORK  - African American patients who are seen in the ER for chest pain are less likely than patients from other racial groups to receive standard tests, such as a chest x-ray or an electrocardiogram (ECG), which provides an electrical recording of the heart, new research shows.
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Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds. Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed narcotics such as oxycodone and morphine less frequently than whites.
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Newly-released figures for hospital infections such as the superbug MRSA show Welsh hospitals are performing better than their English counterparts.
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CHICAGO -- Hundreds of hospitals around the country are joining the most ambitious project ever undertaken to give faster emergency room care to people suffering major heart attacks.
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Fears are raised over the handling of the NHS as figures show emergency readmission rates to hospital are rising.
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Though Michigan children are healthier, black and Hispanic children are much more likely to be uninsured, in poor health and struggling to access care, according to a report released today.
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NEW YORK  - Blacks with chronic lung disease on the waiting list for lung transplantation before 2005 were more likely to die or be removed from the list than were white patients, according to New York investigators.
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Blacks get severe sepsis -- a rampant infection of the bloodstream that causes organ failure -- at nearly twice the rate of whites, and they are far more likely to die from it, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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The number of elderly Americans treated in hospital emergency rooms for product-related injuries rose strongly from 1991 to 2002, according to a report.
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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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Facing cutthroat competition, escalating expenses, and declining revenues, some of the region&#39;s hospitals are trying to boost their bottom lines by offering