New Study: African Americans More Likely Than any Other Race to Develop Alzheimer's Disease

According to a new study released by the Alzheimer's Association, African Americans and Hispanics are at a higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease, but most shocking is the fact that blacks are more likely than any other race to develop the degenerative disease.
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The Guatemala Syphilis Experiement's Tuskegee Roots

Recent revelations that the U. S. Government knowingly infected Central Americans with syphilis in the 1940's have eerie echoes to the infamous 40 year experiment with 400 infected black men in Macon County, Alabama. More

Black Male Children Have Highest Rates of Food Allergies

Children, males and blacks have the highest rates of food allergies in the United States, and the risk is 4.4 times higher among male black children than in the general population, a new study finds. Read more

ER Triage Decisions Delay Care for Blacks, Hispanics

Black Americans and Hispanics who show up at emergency rooms with chest pain are less likely than whites to get the care they need, despite displaying the same symptoms, according to a study published in the September 24 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine.

Study: Hispanics Get Lower Quality Medical Care

It's more discouraging news from the health disparity front: A new study suggets that elderly Hispanics tend to get inferior care. See more.

Doctors in Southeastern U.S. Lack Multicultural Awareness, Stroke Rates Rise Among Blacks

A lack of multicultural awareness by doctors in the Southeastern area of the United States known as the Stroke Belt, due to the high frequency of strokes that occur in that region, read more.

Blacks, Women Experience Pain Medication Disparities, Study Finds

Blacks are prescribed fewer pain medications and women receive weaker dosages of chronic pain meds, concludes a study published in the August issue of Journal of Pain. More