Many people with intellectual and developmental disabilities receive substandard and even harmful healthcare. Tragically, they die preventable, premature deaths, including from extraordinarily high rates of suicide and accidents. More
The accessibility of pharmacies may be an overlooked contributor to persistent racial and ethnic disparities in the use of prescription medications and essential health care services within urban areas in the US. We examined the availability and geographic accessibility of pharmacies across neighborhoods based on their racial/ethnic composition in the thirty most populous US cities. More
Aggressive policing (or aggressive order maintenance policing) is prevalent throughout the US, negatively affecting the health of those exposed to it. More
A new report finds Black women in Illinois are nearly three times as likely as white women to die of a pregnancy-related condition. Meanwhile, several Chicago hospitals have cut maternity services in recent years. More
But there is a lot to apologize for — from Reconstruction to today. More
Disparities in health and access to care in the United States have been thrown into sharp relief by the disproportionate and deadly effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic on underserved communities of color and by the grassroots movement toward a racial reckoning that began in earnest in the spring of 2020. More
A comprehensive 40-year analysis shows the number of Black male and Native American and Alaskan Native medical students has declined. More
There is currently no legal right in any U.S. jurisdiction for a person in an encounter with police to request and be provided immediate emergency medical care by an objective clinical entity. A bill in the Massachusetts legislature would provide such a right. More
In California's San Joaquin Valley, some researchers are turning political to address the social determinants of health. More
How did a Promised Land to generations of Black families become a community of lost lives? More
Covid patients who did not speak English well were 35% more likely to die, data from one Boston hospital shows. More
Better communication could help reduce inequities, but our medical infrastructure isn’t designed to take that into account More
Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi writes on the struggles faced by Asian Americans working in medicine, who have endured biased comments and discrimination. More
Ignorance is neither neutral nor benign, especially when it cloaks evidence of harm. And when ignorance is produced and entrenched by gatekeeper medical institutions, as has been the case with obfuscation of at least 200 years of knowledge about racism and health, the damage is compounded. More
Vice President Kamala Harris weighs in on Black maternal health issues ranging from bias training for doctors to extending Medicaid coverage. More
The coronavirus pandemic has provided a clear example of how quickly social economic disparities become health disparities. More
Bill Whitaker reports on how decades of research show that racism is adversely affecting Black Americans' health in several different ways. More
Black Americans are nearly three times more likely to be killed by police and with each death the mental health of the community left behind is harmed. More
Of 51 editors at NEJM, just one was Black and one was Hispanic as of October. Of 49 editors at JAMA, two were Black and two were Hispanic. More
I am a surgeon in a privileged profession, but structural anti-Asian racism plagues medicine as it does other sectors of society. More