ER docs give whites narcotics more often
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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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Too many doctors write prescriptions while under the influence of drug companies. Aggressive prosecution of the worst cases could help mend doctor-patient trust.
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NEW YORK  - African Americans are less willing than whites to have an epidural to ease pain following surgery, a new study suggests.
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NEW ORLEANS  - Despite similar levels of  physical activity, white women appear to have a greater  reduction in their risk of developing diabetes than women of  other races.
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NEW YORK  - Contrary to what might be expected, the quality of care that patients receive increases with the number of medical conditions they have, according to a report in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Black esophageal cancer patients in the United States are half as likely as whites to get surgery that can help them live longer and often do not even see a surgeon, researchers reported on Tuesday.
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An effort to ease tensions over the use of morphine-based painkillers has backfired -- leaving many doctors and patients more fearful than before that they could be arrested for practicing what they consider good medicine.
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Physicians tend to do more of the talking during examinations when their patients are black, suggesting race plays a role in the way doctors and patients communicate, according to a new study
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More patients are getting life-saving drugs quickly after a heart attack, according to a national survey.
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More than a decade ago, a howl went up about the way new drugs were tested. Virtually all trials were limited to white males, even though some medical differences based on race are widely acknowledged.
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People who take high doses of vitamin E - those exceeding 400 international units a day - to improve their health may be slightly increasing their risks of dying earlier.
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In 2002, three of the ten leading causes of death differed between blacks and whites in the US, reflecting disparities in health care, according researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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Federal prosecutors yesterday portrayed prominent pain doctor William E. Hurwitz as a man who used his white coat and prescription pad to traffic in narcotics, spreading the abuse of addictive
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While many foreign doctors are drawn to the United States to treat underserved poor and rural areas, some experts and health officials say the physicians are needed more at home.
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Although opium production is up in Afghanistan, cocaine consumption is rising in Europe and trafficking is growing in Africa, drug abuse is being brought under control.
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Americans have a harder time than residents of several other countries getting after-hours appointments with a nurse or primary care physician without going to an emergency room, a study released yesterday found.
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New HIV cases among Hispanics are being diagnosed at twice the rate of African-Americans and more than four times that of Caucasians.