Although Medicare coverage for colorectal cancer screening has increased, there are still significant disparities in screening practices by ethnicity, sex, age, education and income level, according to a report in the February 12, 2007 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
A new oral blood thinner is being compared to an old standby to see if it works as well and is easier to manage long term, researchers say.
Children with parents in the military have higher blood pressure, heart rates and general stress levels than their peers during wartime, researchers say.
Lower transplant rates in ethnic communities may be explained somewhat by a lack of suitable anonymous donors, a problem the medical community has long known and been working to address.
A little-known lipid plays a big role in helping us grow from a hollow sphere of stem cells into human beings, researchers have found.
South Asian immigrants in America have a higher risk of heart disease than any other American population.
A new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and Johns Hopkins University has found that race, gender and insurance differences factor strongly in the evaluation of patients with chest pain seen in emergency departments.
On the morning of Friday, January 26, 2007, we invite you to celebrate with us a momentous event in the histories of Weill Cornell Medical College and the medical community of New York City. The presentation will include the opening of the new 13-story, 300,000-square-ft. Ambulatory Care and Medical Education Building along with the formal naming of the building.
A motor protein called myosin X runs the main road of a developing neuron, delivering to its tip a receptor that enables it to communicate with other neurons, scientists say.
Pancreatic cancer patients 65 or older who live five years after surgery have nearly as good a chance as anyone to live another five years. Researchers reviewed records of 890 pancreatic cancer patients who over a 30 year-period underwent surgery. They found 23 percent lived five years after surgery, half of whom were 65 or older. Some 65 percent lived another five years compared to 87 percent in the general population at age 70.