The first Americans to receive the coronavirus vaccine, live on television, were Black caregivers, optics that illustrate a daunting challenge facing the nationwide campaign: persuading skeptical African Americans to get ...
Dec 15, 2020
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Large variations in exposure at home, in the community and at work—rather than case-fatality rates—may explain the well-documented racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality during the first wave of the pandemic last spring, ...
Dec 10, 2020
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After declining steadily for more than a decade, new research shows the number of people dying from cardiac arrests is climbing. And the greatest increase is among young Black adults.
Nov 10, 2020
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Nearly six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, two things have become clear: The virus profoundly impacts people with heart disease and disproportionately impacts Black people. But the many manifestations of these disparities ...
Aug 25, 2020
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While it's true anyone is at risk of catching and becoming ill with COVID-19, it's becoming increasingly clear this virus discriminates.
Jul 29, 2020
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Even though he was just appointed director of VCU Massey Cancer Center in December, Robert Winn, M.D., already has become an asset to the African American faith community in Richmond.
Jun 16, 2020
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African-American and Latinx populations are being devastated by the coronavirus, in Philadelphia, statewide, and across the country. Members of the black and Latinx communities make up a disproportionate number of COVID-19 ...
May 27, 2020
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African immigrants have significantly lower rates of risk factors for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases compared to blacks from the Caribbean and African Americans, according to preliminary research ...
Mar 5, 2020
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Teen suicide rates among black youth are increasing. In 2016 and again in 2018, national data revealed that among children age 5-11, black children had the highest rate of death by suicide. For the years 2008 to 2012, 59 ...
Jan 17, 2020
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Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have launched a new, unique study recruiting black women with breast cancer designed to better understand and treat neuropathy, a side effect from chemotherapy. The National ...
Sep 10, 2019
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