Study probes why U.S. blacks wary of medical trials
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Distrust of doctors and concern over being abused as human guinea pigs may explain why U.S. blacks have been less willing than whites to volunteer to take part in medical studies, researchers said on Monday.
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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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NEW YORK  - Better doctor-patient  communication may improve colon cancer screening rates among  African Americans, results of a North Carolina study suggest.
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A collection of genes involved in early development may help explain why black babies are more at risk of sudden infant death syndrome than other U.S. groups, researchers said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - 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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Black American women are more likely  to have a hard-to-treat form of breast cancer, they get it  earlier and they are more likely to die of it, researchers said  on Thursday.
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Sept. 27, 2004 -- Black men are twice as likely as whites to die from prostate cancer, but according to a new study, they are only half as likely to be screened for it.
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A new drug treatment for a debilitating heart problem affecting millions has been shown to improve survival rates and reduce hospitalizations in black Americans, the first study to discover a beneficial effect for one race.
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NEW YORK  - African Americans have a   two-fold higher risk of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a   type of "hardening of the arteries" in the legs, than other   groups. The risk among African Americans is equivalent to   smoking one pack of cigarettes every day over a 20-year period,   experts say, making screening for this condition even more   important in this population.
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U.S. blacks continue to get inferior cancer treatment compared to whites, researchers said on Monday in a study showing that disparities first documented in the early 1990s persist despite efforts to erase them.
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Black women with uterine cancer are   more likely to die than white women given similar treatment,   U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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It's known that African Americans have an elevated risk of pancreatic cancer, but new study findings show they may also be less likely to receive surgery for the disease.
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Weeks before President Bush announced a plan to protect African babies from AIDS, top U.S. health officials were warned that research on the key drug was flawed and may have underreported severe reactions including deaths, government documents show.
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An unusual study enrolling only  black Americans showed a more powerful statin drug worked  better to lower cholesterol than a rival brand, researchers  said on Tuesday.
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The Food and Drug Administration does very little to ensure the safety of the millions of people who participate in clinical trials, a federal investigator has found.
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TUESDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDayNews) -- Black American women are less likely than women of other races to have breast reconstruction after mastectomy, says a study published in the online edition of the journal Cancer.
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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.