Whites More Likely to Get ER Narcotics
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CHICAGO -- 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...
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NEW YORK  - The abnormal immune response that leads to multiple sclerosis, or MS, is stronger in African Americans than in whites with the disease, new research indicates. This may partly explain why blacks often experience greater disability.
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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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Sept. 27, 2004 -- Black men are twice as likely as whites to die from prostate cancer, but according to a new study, they are only half as likely to be screened for it.
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Elderly black men are only 50 percent as likely to get tested for prostate cancer as elderly white men are, says a study in the current issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine (news - web sites).
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NEW YORK  - 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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A study finds race plays a major role, with blacks and Native Americans the least likely to be screened. By Steven Reinberg. MONDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDayNews) -- Throughout rural America, breast cancer screening
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NEW YORK  - Black residents of nursing  homes are more likely to develop bedsores, or "pressure  ulcers," than whites are, according to the results of a study  published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  Differences in the characteristics of the nursing homes do not  appear to explain the increased risk for bedsores.
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Drug freebies end up in the hands of the wealthy, not the poor, a new study shows.
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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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Hispanics who identify themselves as "white" tend to be better educated and less likely to be in poverty than those who consider themselves "some other race," according to a report released Monday by a private research group.
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NEW YORK  - Blacks are more likely than whites to want life-sustaining care at the end of life for an incurable illness or a serious physical or mental disability, a new study shows.
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NEW YORK  - There are disparities in the treatment and outcome between older black and white patients who have renal cell cancer, with blacks having significantly lower survival rates, according to a new study.
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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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Differences in the brain may increase the chances a person will take drugs, scientists say.
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BOSTON---Although black men in the United States are more likely than white men to be diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and have a two-fold greater risk of dying from it, they are significantly less likely to be screened for prostate cancer
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CHICAGO, March 5 (Reuters Life!) - White U.S. teenagers who watch a lot of R-rated movies or have unsupervised access to TV shows appear more likely than similar black youths to start smoking cigarettes, a study found on Monday.