Lung transplant wait seen favoring whites
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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.
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Blacks get severe sepsis -- a rampant infection of the bloodstream that causes organ failure -- at nearly twice the rate of whites, and they are far more likely to die from it, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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Â· One patient a day dies waiting for a transplant Â· BMA backs idea, but other groups voice concerns
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In a study of prostate cancer  patients living in California, most Asian men with the disease  survived longer than their white counterparts. The exception  was men from South Asia; their survival was worse than that of  white men.
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NEW YORK  - There is no difference in  survival between black and white patients with heart disease  who undergo angioplasty, a procedure to open blocked heart  blood vessels, new research shows.
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A team of doctors in Kentucky and the Netherlands is preparing to perform the world&#39;s first face transplant. In an article in The American Journal of Bioethics, the doctors write, There arrives a point in time when the procedure should simply be done.
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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
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A team at London&#39;s Great Ormond Street Hospital points to evidence in two young boys with cystic fibrosis who had been given lung transplants.
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TUESDAY, Jan. 15 (HealthDay News) -- The last thing you want to hear in the emergency room when you've got crushing chest pain or can't breathe is that you have to wait before you can get treatment.
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TORONTO (CP) - More heart-transplant patients are surviving longer than 10 years ago, but a shortfall in the number of donor organs means Canadians continue to die while awaiting a new heart, a report released Wednesday shows.
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A five-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder is appealing for more bone marrow donors from ethnic minorities.
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Variety - NEW YORK -- The Great White Way and the Great White North will have to wait a little longer to get together.
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Children who live in polluted communities are five times more likely to have clinically low lung function - less than 80 percent of the lung function expected for their age.
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Children who receive organ transplants with a non-matching blood type can grow accustomed to the foreign tissue over the long run, a study has shown.
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NEW YORK  - In a study of prostate cancer patients living in California, most Asian men with the disease survived longer than their white counterparts. The exception was men from South Asia; their survival was worse than that of white men.
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Researchers report that the higher a personâs body mass index is, the less likely he is to receive a kidney transplant.
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Doctors from Kentucky and the Netherlands say they&#39;re ready to perform a face transplant as soon as they find an eligible candidate.