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Is Illiteracy Black America's Public Health Enemy #1? - The Baltimore Times
Baltimore Times· 4 hours agoIt is nearly impossible to calculate how many people die each year because they could not correctly...
Why racism is a public health crisis
BBC News· 4 days agoRacial biases in science and medicine harm people's health, writes Layal Liverpool in her new book Systemic: How Racism Is Making Us Ill. She tells David...
CAR-T therapy is considered a cure for some types of cancer. Penn researchers found significant ...
Philly.com· 4 days agoResearchers at the University of Pennsylvania found significant racial disparities in who gets...
The UNC System’s ‘institutional neutrality’ policy will promote inequality
NC Newsline via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIn the late 1990s and early 2000s, I occasionally taught workshops for local nonprofit organizations...
Letters: Police officers face risks every day, especially during traffic stops
Chicago Tribune· 22 hours agoRegarding the Tribune article “Bias found in Chicago traffic stops” (June 10): I served as a...
Black people are increasingly overrepresented in Sacramento homeless population, report says
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHistoric barriers to housing, employment, credit and health care, long the products of systemic ...
Black women three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related issues
WISN 12 Milwaukee· 6 days agoErica Wright has had reproductive challenges since she was a teenager. "Abnormal type of bleeding,...
Study links chronic pain to quality of family rela | Newswise
Newswise· 4 days agoDALLAS – June 10, 2024 – Strong family relationships have long been associated with a better sense...
Only 1.6% of US doctors were Black in 1906—the legacy of inequality in medical education has not yet...
Medical Xpress· 6 days agoThis effort encompasses medical schools. Despite clear and persistent gaps between white and Black...
‘Mom governor’ Hochul adds doula care to Medicaid, expands paid prenatal leave
New York Daily News· 3 days agoGov. Hochul moved Monday to fund doula care and paid time off for expectant mothers before they give...