Study: Racial, Economic Gap in Appendicitis Care
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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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NEW YORK  - Contrary to conventional wisdom, the appendix may not be useless after all. New research suggests that the structure helps beneficial bacteria survive and repopulate the colon after these organisms become depleted as a result of an infection or drug treatment.
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U.S. researchers tracking government health care spending on illegal immigrants found that most of the money goes to childbirth costs and pregnancy complications, a study conducted in North Carolina showed.
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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 get access to care.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Medicaid patients are less likely than patients with HMOs or private health insurance to receive recommended cardiac care, say researchers who analyzed data on more than 96,000 patients at 521 hospitals across the country.
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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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Around the United States, there are perplexing geographic variations in medical expenses and the quality of care.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- There's no racial distinction when it comes to depression in the homebound elderly, says a new study in the October issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
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A rising number of Americans say healthcare is the most critical issue facing America today, and many are having trouble covering the costs, according to a survey released yesterday.
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By Chris Echegaray, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Sep. 14--TAMPA -- America is making little progress putting computers and  Internet access into the homes of minorities at the same rate as Anglos.
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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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ATLANTA - A new study has found that 15 medical conditions accounted for about half of the US$200 billion (S$342 billion) rise in US health spending from 1987 to 2000.
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Insurance, not race, seems to play a role in the risk of developing a burst appendix, a new study shows.
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More than 70 percent of patients who took painkillers such as ibuprofen for more than three months suffered damage to their small intestines, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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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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NEW YORK  - A person's race may influence  his or her level of physical fitness, according to the findings  of a study of black and white adults who underwent treadmill  stress tests.
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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.