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Dr. Javay Ross, a pediatrician and co-founder of the BLOOM: Black Baby Equity Clinic, conducts a health screening on Christina Dozier, 2, of Oakland, as Dozier sits on her grandmother’s lap on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital’s Claremont Clinic in Oakland, Calif. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) As a Black mother, […]
Older Black people in the US are twice as likely to develop dementia as white people are Hispanolistic/Getty Images In the US, people of colour receive worse treatment than white people at every stage of dementia care, from diagnosis to end-of-life treatment, according to an analysis of dozens of studies. Dementia-causing conditions, such as Alzheimer […]
The Biden administration can’t enforce a guidance document that claimed to remind health-care providers of their obligations under a federal emergency care law, but actually was intended to protect abortion access nationwide, the Fifth Circuit said Tuesday. Judge Kurt D. Englehardt said the document added new obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act […]
A federal court in Alabama denied on Tuesday an attempt by the Biden administration to halt litigation against the state’s gender-affirming care ban while appeals courts sort out the proper standard of review to use in the case and related ones. Pausing the case “may indeed be the most efficient way to proceed in this […]
A federal judge declined Tuesday to pause litigation challenging Alabama’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors as similar cases wind upward toward the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Liles Burke said no to a request from the U.S. Department of Justice to put the Alabama case on hold until appellate courts decide if they […]
(Andersen Ross Photography Inc/Getty Images) More Black Americans say health outcomes for Black people in the United States have improved over the past 20 years than say outcomes have worsened, according to a 2021 Pew Research Center survey. A majority of Black adults also say that their most recent experiences with the health care system […]
In a reflection of how pervasive racism and discrimination can be in daily life, a major new KFF survey shows that many Hispanic, Black, Asian, and American Indian and Alaska Native adults in the U.S. believe they must modify both their mindset and the way they look to stave off potential mistreatment during health care […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Improving the mental health and wellness of Black Americans requires acknowledging and confronting systemic racism underlying the U.S. political, social, and health care systems that create and maintain racial inequality in every aspect of life for Black people in the US. The new Series of three papers on Black mental health […]
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ATHENS, Ga. (WGXA) – New research from the University of Georgia sheds light on racial disparities in stroke care, revealing that Black patients are significantly less likely to receive lifesaving treatments, leading to longer hospital stays and potentially poorer health outcomes. The study, published in the Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, analyzed data from […]