The 50 year old UK Misuse of Drugs Act, which provides the primary legislation for our drug laws, has failed to reduce illicit drug supply, use, and harms and was designed, and continues to be used, as a tool of systemic ...
Sep 29, 2021
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COVID-19 can be bad for anyone. For pregnant women, scientific research shows it can be worse: The disease significantly raises their odds of needing ICU care, giving birth prematurely and of dying.
Sep 29, 2021
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Non-Hispanic Black individuals in four U.S. states experienced a 38% increase in the rate of opioid overdose deaths from 2018 to 2019, while the rates for other race and ethnicity groups held steady or decreased, according ...
Sep 9, 2021
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As resources for people experiencing domestic violence in Chicago's South Side dwindled during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic stay-at-home order, so did reporting of violence within the home, according to new research published ...
Sep 3, 2021
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Between 2013 and 2018, a startling 73% of pregnancy-related deaths in Philadelphia were in Black women—yet they accounted for only 43% of births. According to a 2020 report from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health's ...
Aug 27, 2021
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A broad education effort about cardiac arrest seemed to improve care and save lives, a study has found. But even as the response to cardiac arrest improved in important ways, survival rates rose only in white people.
Aug 25, 2021
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may have increased the threat of COVID-19 infection in the Black community and among some other racial and ethnic minority groups when the agency updated its mask guidance ...
Aug 12, 2021
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To increase vaccination rates among Black people who are at high risk of COVID-19, employing an Afrocentric health-promotion approach that is centred on respecting patients' values and perspectives can help, argue authors ...
Aug 9, 2021
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Clinicians should not take race into account when diagnosing anemia in pregnant patients and pursuing interventions, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. While ...
Jul 28, 2021
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A new large-scale randomized evaluation has found that messages delivered by physicians increased knowledge about COVID-19 and use of preventative health measures, like mask-wearing and social distancing, regardless of recipients' ...
Jul 16, 2021
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