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Black Maternal Health Week is recognized each year from April 11-17 to bring awareness to Black maternal health. Each year in the United States, hundreds of people die during pregnancy or in the year after. Thousands more have unexpected outcomes of labor and delivery with serious short- or long-term health consequences. Every pregnancy-related death is […]
An urgent care chain in Ohio may be forced to stop paying rent and other bills to cover salaries. In Florida, a cancer center is racing to find money for chemotherapy drugs to avoid delaying critical treatments for its patients. And in Pennsylvania, a primary care doctor is slashing expenses and pooling all of her […]
The ramifications of a cyberattack on a critical health care technology company are still being felt across the U.S. nearly two weeks later. “Our experts are working to address the matter, and we are working closely with law enforcement and leading third-party consultants such as Mandiant and Palo Alto Networks on this attack against Change […]
How History Has Shaped Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: A Timeline of Policies and Events | KFF KFF Source link
Fallout from a ransomware attack on the country’s largest health care payment processor is “the most serious incident of its kind leveled against a U.S. health care organization,” American Hospital Association CEO Rick Pollack said Thursday evening. The attack has crippled Change Healthcare, a company that provides a widely used program for health care providers […]
Eliminating disparities and promoting health equity is central to increasing access to care for all. To help achieve this, we partnered with Morehouse School of Medicine’s African American Behavioral Health Center of Excellence (AABH-CoE), an initiative funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that’s helping the field transform behavioral health services […]
Comirnaty, a new Pfizer/BioNTech vaccination booster for COVID-19, is displayed at a pharmacy in Orlando, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Joe Burbank/AP hide caption toggle caption Joe Burbank/AP Comirnaty, a new Pfizer/BioNTech vaccination booster for COVID-19, is displayed at a pharmacy in Orlando, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Joe Burbank/AP NEW YORK — […]
Combating America’s Black mental health crisisSusan L. Taylor of the National CARES Mentoring Movement (CARES) discusses how listening and mentorship can help prevent the high rate of suicide and attempted suicide by young Black people.February 27, 2024 Source link
Boston’s chief federal prosecutor is scrutinizing his lawyers’ biopharma investigations amid perceptions the office has lost its reputation as the Justice Department’s most feared health care fraud enforcer. Joshua Levy, now the acting head and White House nominee to lead the US attorney’s office in Massachusetts, is relying on his decades of experience as the […]
medical screening in commemoration of the International Day for Women at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena in Lagos, Nigeria. (Photo by: Emmanuel Osodi/Majority World/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Emmanuel Osodi/Majority World/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Black women living in America are nearly 50 percent more likely to have high blood pressure when compared to non-Hispanic […]