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ST. PAUL, Minn. , April 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Mother Baby Center, a partnership between Allina Health and Children’s Minnesota , is proud to announce The Mother Baby Center in St. Paul has been recognized for its success in supporting Black maternal health by U.S. News & World Report for Black Maternal Health . . […]
Application based on results from the TROPION-Breast01 phase 3 trial Additional BLA under review in the U.S. for Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca’s datopotamab deruxtecan for patients with advanced nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer TOKYO & BASKING RIDGE, N.J., April 02, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Daiichi Sankyo (TSE: 4568) and AstraZeneca’s (LSE/STO . . .
The American Red Cross said it is in need of Black blood donors to help patients with sickle cell disease. The Red Cross said sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States, mostly affecting patients of African descent. The disease is a group of conditions in which red blood […]
Dr. Uché Blackstock spoke with ABC News’ Linsey Davis about her new book. January 25, 2024, 12:44 PM ET • 7 min read In recent years, conversations of racism and prejudice in health care have become more mainstream, from Black patients not being taken seriously when it comes to pain, to Black women having the […]
Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore said that claims “Zionist” doctors harmed patients were a tenet of anti-Semitism. “A call to purge dangerous ‘Zionist doctors’ and ‘decolonise’ medicine,” he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Out of the slime of racist history crawls the blood libel and Stalin’s anti-Jewish Doctor’s Plot: he devised personally the lie […]
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 […]
Meeting Someone Like Me A support group at Pennsylvania Hospital not only provides resources on how to manage symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, but also fosters friendship among the participants. The Support Group for Black Patients with Parkinson’s Disease, launched in February, serves as a space where patients in an underserved community can connect with those […]
By Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York 26 minutes ago Image source, Instagram/ McIntyre family Image caption, Casey McIntyre wrote: “if you’re reading this I have passed away” A New York City woman who died of ovarian cancer has raised enough money to pay off millions of dollars in other people’s medical debts.
These findings are important because they suggest that efforts to promote equitable health care in the U.S. over the past two decades, such as the Affordable Care Act, or ‘Obamacare,’ do not appear to have translated to clinical practice – at least with regards to pain management in hospital emergency departments The following article, written by Trevor […]
These findings are important because they suggest that efforts to promote equitable health care in the U.S. over the past two decades, such as the Affordable Care Act, or ‘Obamacare,’ do not appear to have translated to clinical practice – at least with regards to pain management in hospital emergency departments The following article, written by Trevor […]