Women
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Why are black women at such high risk of dying from pregnancy complications?
[ad_1] (JGI/Tom Grill, Getty Images) Serena Williams and Beyoncé are at the top of their professions. Williams is one of…
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Fibroids: Greater in African-American Women than White. Why?
[ad_1] Medically Reviewed by Monica Ploetzke, MD Fibroids – non-cancerous growths in the uterus – are the most common pelvic…
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The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity
[ad_1] The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity Prescribing weight loss to Black women ignores barriers to their health By Sabrina Strings & Lindo Bacon…
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Eliminating Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality
[ad_1] Introduction and summary If the fact that the United States has the highest maternal and infant mortality rates among…
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The Best and Worst Cities for Black Women
[ad_1] Last September, the city of Pittsburgh released a report on gender and race disparities that concluded, perhaps to the…
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Ovarian Cancer Studies Aim to Reduce Racial Disparities
[ad_1] July 16, 2020, by NCI Staff NCI has launched three studies to investigate the societal, biological, behavioral, and clinical factors…
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Understanding Racial Disparities for Women with Uterine Fibroids
[ad_1] Growing up, Erica Marsh remembers visiting aunties in the hospital and taking food to her mom’s friends who were…
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Why Black women are less likely to survive pregnancy, and what’s being done about it
[ad_1] (Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/DigitalVision, Getty Images) Being Black and pregnant in the U.S. was already a risky combination, and…
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Effective therapy with Black women
[ad_1] The murders of Black men such as George Floyd at the hands of the police have put systemic racism…
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HIV and Black/African American People in the U.S. | Fact Sheets | Newsroom | NCHHSTP
[ad_1] The donut graph shows the estimated 34,800 people with new HIV infections in the U.S., by race and ethnicity,…
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