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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More civilians died across Ukraine Sunday as analysts warned that delays in U.S. military assistance would see Kyiv struggle to fight off Russian offensives. One man was Sunday killed after a Russian drone hit the truck he was driving in the Sumy region, the local prosecutor’s office said. Elsewhere, a 67-year-old […]
President Joe Biden of the United States, US, on Thursday said black women in America are more prone to die during pregnancy than their white counterparts. Biden said this has made the Black Maternal Health Week an urgent call for action. Posting on X, Biden said his administration is addressing the disparities the black community […]
Baldi is a student at the University of Washington majoring in public and global health and is originally from Rancho Santa Fe. Black women are 50 percent more likely to have a preterm birth than White women. Throughout United States history, Black women have long faced a disproportionate risk of preterm births, or birth before […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Data from the Department of Health and Human Services shows Black people are a lot more likely to die of heart disease than white people. But the number of Black cardiologists in the U.S. is dangerously low – just 3% – and there’s a big push to recruit more Black students […]
There has been some improvement in closing the gap — in 2000, Black Americans were 26% more likely to die of cancer than White Americans, but by 2020 that disparity had shrunk to 12%, researchers at Duke University found. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News While cancer death rates have fallen among Americans generally over the […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Charlotte panel made up of doctors, midwives, doulas, and mental health experts will tackle the topic of Black maternal health care Tuesday, as organizations seek solutions for women who are pregnant and need prenatal care. Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white women, […]
A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande on Friday night in Eagle Pass, Texas, after U.S. border agents were prevented from responding, federal officials said Saturday. In a statement, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said U.S. Border Patrol agents were made aware of the migrants’ distress by the Mexican government but […]
Despite strapped budgets, holiday sales this year are expected to soar. According to the National Retail Federation, an estimated 182 million people are planning to shop in-store and online from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday. It’s the highest estimate since NRF began tracking this data in 2017. Whether it’s the holiday deals or tradition, […]
I became a midwife after working as a doula for 10 years. I came into the work with the knowledge and concern for the lack of safety that is espoused to Black women and birthing people that I witnessed while attending births within institutions that have and continue to perpetuate harm in birthing spaces. I […]
Two U.S. Army soldiers died and 12 others were injured on Monday after a military vehicle flipped en route to a training exercise in Alaska, the U.S. Army Alaska said. The truck, a light medium tactical vehicle used for troop transport, was traveling to a training near Salcha, Alaska, about 30 miles southeast of Fairbanks, […]