Why Do Women of Color Have Worse Breast Cancer Outcomes?
Breast cancer treatment and survival are worse for women of color. Healthcare disparities are to blame.
Breast cancer treatment and survival are worse for women of color. Healthcare disparities are to blame.
Why do Black women have the highest rates of obesity in the U.S.? The answer lies beyond the numbers on the scale.
We knew the US healthcare system did a poor job of serving women. The Commonwealth Fund Report reveals the situation is even worse than we thought.
The health care system has historically been a fraught with danger for trans people of color
I was having a medical emergency but racism, classism and sexism got in the way of my care
The Oscar slap seen around the world was sparked by a joke about Jada Pinket Smith’s shaved head. Pinkett Smith has been public about her battle with Alopecia.
It’s 2022 — and LGBTQ discrimination in healthcare is still a thing
As of July, nearly 1 in 4 Americans were enrolled in the program
Metabolic conditions like obesity and diabetes can influence how cancer develops and responds to treatment
Racial and ethnic minorities have borne significantly higher risks of Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths than white people
When Black patients are treated by Black doctors, they have better health outcomes – but fewer than 6 in 100 American doctors are Black
The most lead-contaminated neighborhoods in cities are often the poorest and home to the highest percentage of nonwhite children
The schools represent a particularly insidious method of attempting forced assimilation because they involved the removal of children, sometimes by kidnapping, from their families and communities
Black women are about 1.6 times as likely as whites to give birth more than three weeks before the due date
During the summer of 2020, a CDC survey found that 15% of Black respondents had "seriously considered suicide in the past 30 days," compared with 8% of white respondents