COVID-19 patients who receive a palliative care consultation are 5.6 times more likely to receive comfort care at the end of life and are just as likely to receive CPR if needed as those who did not receive a consultation, ...
Feb 28, 2022
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For the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted virtually every facet of life. Now, some people are ready to ditch the masks and other precautions. COVID will eventually transition from pandemic to endemic, the ...
Feb 22, 2022
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The news is horrifying—a list that seems to keep growing of high-profile African Americans believed to have died by suicide in the last few weeks:
Feb 3, 2022
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Black Americans who were initially hesitant about receiving a COVID-19 vaccine were more likely than whites to warm up to the idea as the pandemic wore on and to view vaccines as necessary for protection, a new study has ...
Jan 21, 2022
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Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have persisted throughout the pandemic, and improving vaccine access and uptake among the populations that are disproportionately impacted remains ...
Jan 10, 2022
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Before COVID-19, there was tuberculosis. Twentieth century British physician Thomas McKeown controversially proposed that the sharp declines in infectious disease death rates in the late 1900s were due to improved economic ...
Dec 23, 2021
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New results from a long-term epidemiologic study reveal that one of the oldest racially based diagnostic formulas in medicine is no better than a race-neutral equation, which suggests the formula used to diagnose lung disease ...
Dec 16, 2021
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Psychology researchers at North Carolina State University have developed and validated a new tool for assessing how accurate people are at recognizing emotion in elementary school-aged children. The technique will facilitate ...
Nov 2, 2021
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African Americans represent 12% of the U.S. population, but carried 41% of all menthol-smoking-related premature deaths in the United States between 1980 and 2018, according to a new study researchers believe is the first ...
Oct 14, 2021
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Former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Keith McCants was to be the keynote speaker at a September meeting to address a subject he knew too well, the rise in opioid use among Black people.
Oct 11, 2021
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