Poverty doesn't explain racial gap in birthweight
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NEW YORK  - Upwardly mobile white women who grew up in poverty have a lower risk of having an underweight infant, but the same is not true of black women, a study published Tuesday suggests.
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Researchers say results aren't necessarily transferable to human beings.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: That members have not delivered on Gleneagles is not in doubt. But Make Poverty History made aid delivery seem too simple.
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African-American women in the US are far less likely to undergo breast reconstruction following mastectomy than white women, regardless of socioeconomic factors, new research indicates.
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Black people in the United States are far more likely than whites to die from strokes, diabetes and other diseases, according to a federal study that shows wide racial disparities persist in health care.
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NEW YORK  - Results of a new study show that pregnant African-American women deliver their babies before term not only more often than white women, but also earlier in their pregnancies and in multiple pregnancies.
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African American women who report experiences of discrimination based on their race or skin color appear to have an increased risk of poor pregnancy outcomes, according to the findings of two new studies.
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NEW YORK  - Postnatal (after birth) growth   problems, especially when associated with prenatal (before   birth) growth problems, are linked to lower physical size,   cognitive scores, and academic achievement at age 8, according   to results of a study.
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NEW YORK  - Feeding very low birth-weight  infants with mother's milk rather than formula doesn't seem to  improve their neurological development, researchers have found.
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Blacks and whites don't see racism the same way, which is why we can't solve America's racial woes
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NEW YORK  - Firstborns frequently score higher on IQ and achievement tests than their younger siblings, but a new report suggests that how siblings are raised, not their birth order, is what matters when it comes to brain power.
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BOSTON -- Newborns face little risk of birth defects from antidepressants taken by many women early in pregnancy, say the reassuring findings of the two biggest studies of this controversial link.
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By Bonnie Henry, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 18--What were the odds? Their father, the sole breadwinner of the family, had just been killed in a horrific accident. Their mother was pregnant with her fourth child.   And they were black, living in a Jim Crow America.
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Despite significant gains in medical science, disparities in public health persist between rich and poor countries.
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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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Figures taking pupils' socio-economic backgrounds into consideration are misleading, say researchers
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NEW YORK  - Some babies who do not have  full-blown fetal alcohol syndrome can still develop IQ  problems, a new study indicates.