MONDAY, April 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The risk of mother-to-newborn transmission of COVID-19 is low, but the illness in pregnant women can trigger preterm birth, researchers say. The new study looked at 255 babies born in Massachusetts last year to mothers with a recent positive test for COVID-19. OnlyContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The percentage of U.S. doctors who are Black has barely risen in the past 120 years, and there’s still a wide pay gap between white and Black physicians, a new study finds. The analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data from 1900 to 2018Continue Reading
TUESDAY, April 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) — As America awaits a verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, new research finds that such high-profile police killings of Black people may take a big mental health toll on psyches across the country. Researchers found that, on average, Black Americans reported an increaseContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Compared with white patients, Black adults are at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to hospital safety in the United States, a new report warns. Black patients are significantly less likely to gain access to “high-quality” hospitals, an Urban Institute analysis found. AsContinue Reading
MONDAY, March 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Discriminatory housing practices from nearly a century ago continue to influence a person’s risk of suffering a stroke, claims a new study that reveals the legacy of structural racism in the United States. Researchers found a 1.5% higher rate of stroke within censusContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Black and Hispanic Americans already face higher risks for dementia than the general population. Many also believe they’d get worse dementia care compared to white patients, according to a new Alzheimer’s Association special report. Older Black Americans are about twice as likely toContinue Reading
MONDAY, March 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — It’s already known that green space offers significant benefits in institutional settings, such as hospitals and schools, but new research suggests it may also reduce violence in prisons. In the new study, researchers compared the amount of trees, lawns and shrubs at prisonsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The greatest threat from COVID-19 has been for Black and Hispanic Americans, who are three times more likely to be hospitalized and about twice as likely to die from an infection with the novel coronavirus, compared with white people. Now, street-level community groupsContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) — States with more gun laws have less youth gun violence, new research reveals. For the study, the researchers examined data from several states from 2005 to 2017, and found that kids were less likely to be armed in states with more gun laws,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) — After the coronavirus pandemic forced the city of Philadelphia to go into lockdown, gun violence rapidly escalated, a new study finds. It’s known that many U.S. cities saw a spike in gun violence in 2020, a year marked not only by the pandemicContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Lisa Iezzoni is all too familiar with the discrimination that patients who have a disability can face: Having lived with multiple sclerosis for more than four decades and now in a wheelchair, she has also studied health care experiences and outcomes forContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Stress levels are on the rise as Americans grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and bitter political divisions, a new American Psychological Association (APA) survey shows. On a 10-point scale where 1 means little to no stress and 10 means a great amount, adults’Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A racist mortgage appraisal practice used in the United States decades ago has resulted in less green space in some urban neighborhoods today, researchers say. Those so-called “redlined” neighborhoods have higher rates of air and noise pollution, racial segregation and poverty — allContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Deaths from overdoses of methamphetamine are rising across the United States, especially among Blacks and American Indians/Alaska Natives, a new study warns. “While much attention is focused on the opioid crisis, a methamphetamine crisis has been quietly, but actively, gaining steam — particularlyContinue Reading