The U.S. moved a step closer Wednesday to offering booster doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to senior citizens and others at high risk from the virus as the Food and Drug Administration signed off on the targeted use of ...
Sep 23, 2021
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Due to the ongoing effects of colonization, First Nations peoples often experience socio-economic disadvantage and health inequality. The pandemic has no doubt worsened these conditions for some.
Sep 20, 2021
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Dealing the White House a stinging setback, a government advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected a plan Friday to give Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots across the board, and instead endorsed the extra vaccine dose only for those ...
Sep 18, 2021
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Structural racism—beliefs, policies, and patterns of behavior that advantage white people over people of color and American Indians—is a deeply pervasive problem in our society but previously very difficult to measure. ...
Sep 2, 2021
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Fine particle pollution may be one reason why Black women have double the risk of developing Alzheimer's than white women, suggests new research from the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Aug 26, 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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Research presented today (Thursday 29 July) at the 2021 Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) in Colorado, shows that more must be done to tackle the barriers to recruitment and retention of participants ...
Jul 30, 2021
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Many Americans believe their communities are doing a good job meeting the needs of older adults, but white people may be better equipped than people of color to age within their communities, according to a new survey from ...
Jul 28, 2021
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Everyone knows smoking is bad for the heart and lungs. But the damage it does to the brain often gets less attention than it should—from smokers and health care providers alike.
Jul 6, 2021
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COVID-19 has put the American health care system's deeply entrenched inequities into high relief. The social, economic and political structures that predated the pandemic's public health crisis and resulting recession have ...
Jul 2, 2021
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