More than 200,000 LGBT adults in California have medical conditions that increase their vulnerability to the effects of COVID-19, according to new research by Kathryn O'Neill, a policy analyst with the Williams Institute ...
Jun 26, 2020
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Forty years ago, another pandemic was sweeping the globe and causing confusion and fear. Over the years, the global HIV response has provided the modern medical community with valuable experience about responding to outbreaks ...
Jun 24, 2020
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Black patients are better represented in taxpayer-funded clinical trials testing new cancer treatments compared to trials run by pharmaceutical companies—although black patients are not fully represented in cancer clinical ...
Jun 22, 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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Associate Dean for Global Health and Equity LaRon E. Nelson, PhD, RN, FNP, FNAP, FAAN recently coauthored the paper "Understanding COVID-19 Risks and Vulnerabilities among black Communities in America: The Lethal Force of ...
Jun 9, 2020
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The recently released data are shocking: COVID-19 is infecting and killing black people at an alarmingly high rate. An Associated Press analysis—one of the first attempts to examine the racial disparities of COVID-19 cases ...
Apr 13, 2020
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Public meetings are banned. Theatres, schools, colleges and churches are closed. Business hours are restricted across Canada.
Mar 30, 2020
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Although some media outlets have begun referring to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus as a "modern plague", the threat of COVID-19 remains negligible compared with historic outbreaks of plague. The latest World Health ...
Mar 6, 2020
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Pregnancy is not common in women on dialysis due to impaired fertility. New research from the University of Cincinnati finds that among patients with certain kidney disease there is a racial disparity as to who is more likely ...
Sep 26, 2019
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(HealthDay)—A physician's body language may reveal racial bias against seriously ill black patients, according to research published in the January issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.
Jan 18, 2016
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