At the End of Life, a Racial Divide
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In her last days, Marjorie Clarke Driver longed for a quiet bath in her own tub. But she never made it home.
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NEW YORK  - Families of patients who completed advance directives before their deaths tend to feel their loved ones received somewhat better end-of-life care, according to a new study. Nonetheless, there's still room for improvement.
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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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He died after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 80.
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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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Nearly half of people would help terminally ill loved ones die if they were asked to, according to a survey.
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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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In life, Neal and Jean Evans were very close to their parish priest. In death, less than 20 feet of gently sloping grass separated their graves from his in the Roman Catholic section of Forest Lawn cemetery, just outside of Asheville, N.C.
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White doctors routinely delay treatment of HIV-positive black patients, a new finding that adds to a growing body of research that suggests a sharp racial divide in American medical care.
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Some people find that supportive hospice care may actually lengthen their lives, and that the doctorsâ predictions of imminent demise may simply be wrong.
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Medical advances are forcing more patients and families to confront ever more grueling choices about living and dying.
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DALLAS -- When Patty Jacobs's 33-year-old son, Jeff, died in a boating accident in March, she was thrust into a major and immediate financial decision that most Americans are unprepared for -- purchasing funeral services.
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A black man living in a high-crime American city can expect to live 21 fewer years than a woman of Asian descent in the United States. The man's life expectancy, in fact, is closer to that of people living in West Africa than it is to the average white American.
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A string of deaths caused by Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain malady, in upstate New York has led a community to become increasingly concerned.
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Generally, when someone in their nineties passes away, the quality of mourning is markedly different from that which accompanies a youthful personâs demise.
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British-based relatives of an elderly Alzheimer&#39;s sufferer abandoned at a hospital have been in discussions about his future care with the council looking after him.
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The common perception that terminally ill people try to hang on until after a major event like their birthday or a big holiday isn&#39;t true, according to a study published on Tuesday.