Category: African American Health

“We believe society needs a unique partnership like ours that can help show the way to reducing health disparities in vulnerable communities,” said Morehouse School of Medicine President and Dean Valerie Montgomery Rice.   — NewsOne Staff, NewsOne orehouse School of Medicine has been dedicated to changing the narrative surrounding diversity in the medical industry and […]

  — Marion Renault, AP Scientists are seeing promising early results from the first studies testing gene editing for painful, inherited blood disorders that plague millions worldwide, especially Black people. Doctors hope the one-time treatment, which involves permanently altering DNA in blood cells with a tool called CRISPR, may treat and possibly cure sickle cell […]

— DANA GIVENS, BLACK ENTERPRISE Telehealth services have seen a giant increase in use since the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. With social distancing and quarantine restrictions now the norm, it has made it very difficult for marginalized populations to get access to adequate health services. According to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Black […]

A new lawsuit claims Black Americans with mental illness are being forced into traumatic emergency room stays. — CHRISTIE THOMPSON, THE MARSHALL PROJECT The ambulance was rushing to a psychiatric hospital, with Y. strapped to a gurney, asking the medics: Why? Why were they taking her there? Just that morning, she’d noticed her speech quickening—a […]

By Soo Youn, The Lily For the past couple of years, India Marshall has been contemplating getting another surgery to have bone growths in her head removed. She had already undergone one operation when she was about 20 years old. Now 29, and working as a manager in a primary care clinic, Marshall was experiencing more growth […]

By Tim Elfrink & Meagan Flynn, The Washington Post The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court late on Thursday to overturn the Affordable Care Act, telling the court that “the entire ACA must fall.” The administration’s argument comes as thousands of Americans have turned to the government program for health care as they’ve lost jobs amid the coronavirus pandemic. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi […]

By Mabinty Quarshie, N’dea Yancey-Bragg, Anne Godlasky, Jim Sergent, and Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY When people talk about systemic racism, they mean systemic: impacting institutions, policies and outcomes across all aspects of Black Americans’ lives. Black people have long suffered from persistent inequality in the United States due to centuries of racism, discrimination and the long-lasting effects […]