Race tied to gap in babies&#39; health
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African-American babies in Michigan are almost three times more likely than white babies to die during their first year of life and twice as likely as whites to be born at a low weight
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NEW YORK  - People who were born early or just had an unusually low birth weight are more likely to be hospitalized in adolescence and young adulthood, Swedish researchers 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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DURHAM, N.C. -- A new center at Duke University will become the first to study why more babies are born premature or underweight in the South than elsewhere in the nation.
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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  - African Americans and  Caucasians in the general U.S. population have a similar  prevalence of coronary atherosclerosis, according to new study  findings. Most previous studies have suggested that the  prevalence of atherosclerosis is lower in blacks, despite their  significantly higher death rates from coronary heart disease.
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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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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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For the first time on record, the vaccination rate for black children in the United States has caught up to that of youngsters in other racial groups, the government reported Thursday.
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More than three-quarters of children who were born before the 26th week of pregnancy are affected by cognitive and neurologic impairments by the time they reach school age, British researchers report.
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The number of American children with chronic health problems such as obesity, asthma and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has soared in the past four decades, foreshadowing increases in adult disability and public health-care spending, researchers said yesterday.
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NEW YORK  - Based on certain factors, one would expect Hispanics, Asians, and African Americans to be at greater risk for death following heart bypass surgery than Caucasians, but new research suggests this is not the case.
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A recent study by researchers from the Bristol University was published in the journal Thorax. The report is likely to cause an alarm among pregnant women and mothers of newly born.
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NEW YORK  - Much of the racial and ethnic  differences in the care given to patients hospitalized with a  heart attack can be explained by the quality of the hospital to  which patients are admitted, rather than racial bias, a new  study indicates.
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NEW YORK  - Children whose mothers get enough omega-3 fatty acid during pregnancy may have sharper problem-solving skills in infancy, a small study suggests.
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Row over statistics showing 25% of UK babies are born to foreign parents.
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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.