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02/04/2025

Heart disease and breast cancer are two of the most significant health threats facing Black women today. Here's why...

07/30/2024

If DEI initiatives and training are crucial in healthcare, then shouldn't they be strengthened and not eliminated?

07/30/2024

A new book explores the history of discrimination in women’s health care and how it affects diagnosis and treatment today.

07/30/2024

Author Uché Blackstock shares 5 key insights from her new book, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine.

07/30/2024

U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) led several of their Senate colleagues to introduce a Senate Resolution declaring racism a public health crisis. Brown first introduced the resolution in July 2020, and has reintroduced it every year since.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Alex Padilla...

07/30/2024

Racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care remain a persistent challenge in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic’s uneven impact on people of color drew increased attention to inequities in health and health care, which have been documented for decades and reflect longstanding structural and systemic inequities rooted in historical and ongoing racism and discrimination. KFF’s 2023 Survey on Racism, Discrimination, and Health documents ongoing experiences with racism and discrimination, including in health care settings.

This analysis examines how people of color fare compared to White people across 64 measures of health, health care, and social determinants of health using the most recent data available from federal surveys and administrative sets as well as the 2023 KFF Survey on Racism, Discrimination, and Health...

07/25/2024

So proud of my brother, William Bill Carson MD and his continuing work to decriminalized mental illness as Chair of the Sozozei Foundation. Go to their website or check out their conferences, work on YouTube....

The 2024 Summit centered on the fundamental and purposely provocative question: Do we truly believe that all people deserve access to mental health care? Hel...

06/20/2024

A proactive social media, advocacy, policy and lobbying organization supporting the largest female-dominated profession- nursing....

06/20/2024

Partnering with Diverse Cancer Leaders to Chart the Future of Cancer Health Equity

05/07/2024

Nationally, 15.8 million (4.7%) of all people in the United States live in pharmacy deserts, spanning urban and rural settings in all 50 states. On average, communities that are pharmacy deserts have a higher proportion of people who have a high school education or less, have no health insurance, have low self-reported English ability, have an ambulatory disability, and identify as a racial or ethnic minority.

Abstract. Pharmacies are important health care access points, but no national map currently exists of where pharmacy deserts are located. This cross-sectio

05/06/2024

A lack of access to prostate cancer clinical trials in socially vulnerable areas of the U.S. was associated with significantly higher prostate cancer mortality rates, according to a cross-sectional analysis.

Of the 3,142 U.S. counties included in the analysis, 41.7% had any prostate cancer trial, with the most socially vulnerable counties having a lower proportion of trials compared with the least vulnerable counties (27.6% vs 46.9%, P

'It's a trend we really don't want to see,' researcher says