HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG

January 10, 2009

links for 2009-01-10

• Older women have less access to donor kidneys
  Younger women have equal access to kidney transplants compared with their male counterparts, but older women receive kidney transplants much less frequently than older men, new research shows.
• Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Birth Prevalence of Spina Bifida - United States, 1995-2005
• Medical Journal Changes Its Policy After Criticism by Group
  Criticism by a national accreditation group over a lung cancer study that failed to disclose an author’s financial conflicts has led The New England Journal of Medicine to change its procedures.
• Balance Billing Nixed by California Supreme Court
  If an HMO and an ER can’t agree on what emergency care should cost, they shouldn’t take it out on the patient. That, basically, is what the California Supreme Court ruled yesterday.