Category: Health News
A Guide to What Should Happen at Your OB-GYN Visit — and What Shouldn’t
Arming yourself with information about OB-GYN visits can help you decide what you are and are not comfortable with, and give you an opportunity to speak up.
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Uncovered: How the Insurance Industry Denies Coverage to Patients
Health insurers reject millions of claims for treatment every year in America. Corporate insiders, recordings and internal emails expose the system and its harm.
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Artificial Intelligence May Influence Whether You Can Get Pain Medication
Artificial intelligence raises concerns of bias, accuracy and faulty opioid screening that threatens patient care and doctors’ ability to practice medicine.
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A Striking Gap Between Deaths of Black and White Babies Plagues the South
In the South, infant mortality is by far the highest in the country, with Mississippi’s rate of 8.12 deaths per 1,000 live births ranking worst.
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How Polio Crept Back Into the U.S.
The U.S. is seeing signs that the COVID-19 pandemic has opened up new vulnerabilities to diseases long in retreat such as polio, which is highly contagious and potentially deadly.
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Taking Charge of Your Breast Cancer Risk
The news this Breast Cancer Awareness Month is particularly concerning for Black women. The latest...
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Boost Now or Wait? Many Wonder How to Ride Out Covid’s Next Wave
By Sam Whitehead and Arthur Allen Gwyneth Paige didn’t want to get vaccinated against covid-19 at...
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Black Women Harmed Most By Loss of Abortion Rights
Black Women Harmed Most by Loss of Abortion...
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2022: A New Year of Hope and Healing
2022 is the perfect time for Black women to embrace healing, hope and moving beyond the pandemic by protecting their mental health.
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Barbados Leader Calls Out COP26 Copouts on Climate Change
THE TAKEAWAY: Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley summed up almost everything you need to...
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Alzheimer’s Drug Targets People With Mild Cognitive Impairment. What Does That Mean?
The approval of a controversial new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, Aduhelm, is shining a spotlight on mild cognitive impairment — problems with memory.
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CDC Tracks Only a Fraction of Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections
The CDC mostly stopped tracking COVID-19 in vaccinated people, also known as breakthrough cases, unless the illness led to hospitalization or death.
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Fierce Voices
Inequality Is an Underlying COVID-19 Risk Factor
African Americans are still contracting the coronavirus. During the height of the pandemic, we contracted COVID-19 at an alarming rate, accounting for up to 70% of deaths in some areas. Dr. Melissa Clarke is among the physicians who have been at the forefront of keeping us healthy on her own and as a member of the Black Coalition Against COVID. Click here to read more.
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