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(Wiley-Blackwell) New research suggests African-Americans have a higher burden of multiple, large-joint osteoarthritis (OA), and may not be recognized based on the current definition of "generalized OA." African-Americans were also more likely to have knee OA, but less likely to be affected by hand OA than Caucasians according to the findings reported today in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Rheumatology.

(Washington University School of Medicine) Measuring oxygen during eye surgery, investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

Louis have discovered a potential reason that African-Americans are at higher risk of getting glaucoma than Caucasians.

They found that oxygen levels are significantly higher in the eyes of African-Americans with glaucoma than in Caucasians.

African Americans do significantly worse after a heart transplant than Caucasians, but not because they were getting racially mismatched organs, researchers said.

(Medical College of Wisconsin) African-Americans and women are less likely than Caucasians and men to undergo bone marrow transplantation to treat cancers of the blood.

That is the conclusion of a new analysis published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.

The study's results indicate that additional research is needed to determine why disparities exist in access to bone marrow transplantation and also that the medical community should work to eliminate these inequities.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. -- African Americans who have an abdominal aortic aneurysm are less likely than Caucasians with the condition to have an elective repair, researchers here found.