Health Care

American Medical Association Restricts Two Scholarships On The Basis Of Race

[ad_1] The American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation is offering students at least two scholarships on the basis of race, according…

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Race-based medicine is wrong. How should physicians oppose it?

[ad_1] You might have heard of “racial essentialism”—the decades-old belief races are biologically distinct groups determined by genes. It has…

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Health & Well-Being

[ad_1] Everyone has a right to good health and well-being, but America’s promise has fallen short. Individual health does not…

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Black adults report bias in health care at higher rates than White and Latino people, study finds

[ad_1] (CNN) Black adults were more likely than their White and Latino/Hispanic counterparts to report having been discriminated against or…

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Former Crownsville Hospital land is being repurposed by Anne Arundel County as a historians bring attention to its history of mistreating Black patients.

[ad_1] Throughout the former Crownsville Hospital cemetery in Anne Arundel County, leaves have piled up on tiny bricks inscribed with…

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Black Americans face disability, income barriers when aging

[ad_1] We all have to face the prospect of aging at some point. We prepare for this reality for years…

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Targeted health information misses the mark for Black Americans

[ad_1] Strategies used by doctors to increase patient engagement with health information may work with white Americans, but can…

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Black men’s awareness of peripheral artery disease and acceptability of screening in barbershops: a qualitative analysis | BMC Public Health

[ad_1] Gerhard-Herman MD, Gornik HL, Barrett C, Barshes NR, Corriere MA, Drachman DE, et al. AHA/ACC guideline on the management…

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African Americans hurt by racial disparities in health care

[ad_1] Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save African Americans are dying from covid-19 in disproportionately high…

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Hypertension Control Program Aims to Tackle Major Driver of Health Disparities for Black Americans

[ad_1] WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Association of Black Cardiologists announced today the launch of its Hypertension Control…

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